(08-03-2015, 10:56 PM)Coatleque Wrote: Lack of fear comes from lack of age, lack of experience, lack of respect, and lack of maturity. Â It has nothing to do with role-play the majority of the time. Â It has everything to do with being anonymous online and wanting to look tough or cool because you can't do so in real life. Â It is a selfish and narcissistic attitude that says "look at me, I'm more badass than any of you" regardless of setting or lore.That's a good point. I hadn't looked at it from that angle, but I figure perhaps that differs depending on a person's experience. Perhaps it could be seen as the mark of an unseasoned warrior to assume a smaller enemy or a fairly harmless looking monster is not dangerous. But it does seem likely someone with experience would fear different things, like not being able to properly judge an enemy's intent or skill level from appearances alone. That could easily make a fighter almost paranoid.
It has been argued that in a fantasy setting such as this where people and monsters are all magical with what we may consider super powers, that the very idea of fear would be diminished. Â I would argue for the exact opposite because you can't tell if that Lalafell staring down that Rogadyn has a better grasp of Aetheric concepts. Â Where as in real life you can see someone's bulging muscles and realize you're in a world of hurt.
And also, it could be that the use of magic in such a setting means that those who can't use it are immediately suspicious and fearful of such harmless-looking enemies. For those who cannot fight, too, the use of magic might make them paranoid of, in a non-combat sense, others using aether to pull a fast one on them in various ways like manipulation of air currents to steal something from them or glamors to deceive them and sell them junk. I suppose it depends on the personality of the character in question as to how they respond to all the possible generators of fear in the setting.
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