Won’t you come home, Will Gerevannin?
(Doesn’t have quite the same ring. Ah, well.)
Renate’s brother Emil “Will Gerevannin” von Adler has been up to some tricks of his own. Definitely an intriguing read, even if you haven’t been keeping up with things Dragonhuntish.
Dark Eternal is playing a curious double game. For all his apparent belief in the superiority of dragondom to humanity, he’s done an awful lot to enhance individual humans—his own Heaven fighting corps, obviously, and (potential spoiler) eventually someone else as well, at least possibly.
So is he playing a double game, shoving humanity to take the reins from him, à la the philosopher Will was citing? Or is he simply so arrogant that he believes he can always stay one step ahead of humanity?
Renate, if asked, would have a few different answers to the broad questions. First, that there is more to life than dominion; dominion only coincidentally coincides with worth. Second, that if humanity is to throw off the dragons’ yoke, it will have to do so without dragon-granted gifts, insofar possible, or how will it keep the freedom gained? Third—and she as yet only has a vague sense of this—that humanity finds its strength in acknowledging, sharing, and collectively countering the weaknesses of each individual human. That, she and I both think, is what will eventually overthrow the dragons.
In the meantime, she will have to do her best with what little freedoms she has.
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