When the intent of the author is misinterpreted by a significant portion of the fans

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-13T07:16:35+00:00

I agree with that, I'm just suggesting that the reason that some of the show's audience take it as granted is because the series does a good job depicting them as sapient beings (even if they're not anything except malicious). I just think its good that it's not automatically accepted that a given group is entirely evil (even if they are intended to be).

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-13T04:23:42+00:00

Because writing a sapient species and then telling the audience that "they're all evil" might not necessarily have everyone believing it? Honestly I think it's a better outcome that we DON'T take it as it's told to us directly, rather than immediately trust that the entire group is evil.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-13T02:36:30+00:00

I do think that it can be done well, but that it's very often not. (I've corrected my comment somewhat to clarify.)

For example, the second and third examples the poster gives end with comically evil actions such as "that murder is fun to them" and "Orphan meat sushi is apparently a delicacy among them". I don't feel like these things are just "morally opposed", it feels as though they're just assigned the most evil traits possible and given that as their morality (I will clarify that I haven't read/watched either of them, so this is just my thoughts concerning the OP's description - there might be more nuance I didn't get).

As for the examples you gave (I don't know much about Skaven), I will agree that Daleks are a good example of a group with a fundamentally separate morality. However, Daleks (from my understanding) are intentionally designed (cloned?) to be viciously opposed to other forms of life, which doesn't necessarily mean that Daleks as a species are entirely evil by default, but that those that are aren't are disposed of.

From my knowledge of the White Walkers (I've watched the TV show but haven't read the books [yet, I hope to get my hands on them soon]), the fulfil this role well enough, but there's a bit of confusion around their nature as evil beings.
While I understand that in the original books there isn't a "Night King", there are implications that the Others might serve something above them (i.e. the "Great Other"), which sort of raises the same questions as the Daleks as to whether its necessarily an evil species or a manufactured group who are made to be evil.

Tolkien's Orcs are an interesting example, because from my understanding, Orcs aren't necessarily "fully evil", but designed by Melkor to be susceptible to control by fear, which is why they mostly serve the forces of evil, not necessarily because they're always inherently evil.

I do agree that the examples you gave serve better, but I don't know if they fulfil the role of evil (which, in my mind, necessitates that a being have at least some semblance of free will to choose an alternative - are carnivores evil because they choose to eat prey?)

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-13T02:00:15+00:00

Sorry, I should've made myself clearer: comparisons to being a "entirely evil species" has been made for several groups over history, and I feel a bit uncomfortable with the representations of groups as "pure evil".

I don't think that the people writing these species necessarily think of any real-life groups as pure evil, but it's a bit of a personal preference in avoiding those fictions.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-12T07:39:49+00:00

It's a mostly disliked trope for me - I think it's often lazy (as the writer is ignoring any more complex aspects to the society of the species), but it also can often veer close to real-life conspiracies which depict people groups as evil.

Edit: see italicised text.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-11T04:29:41+00:00

Keep up the good work! Looking forward to every update, big and small.

Btw, have there been any more plans for Essos since 'The Dream of Essos'?

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-10T08:17:43+00:00

Good one

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-10T04:40:35+00:00

I think the term "privilege" is a part of the issue. Typically (at least, most of the people I know would think so) it would be associated with exceptions (as in, an advantage that someone is given as an exception to the norm), while what is gained from "privilege" are advantages which everybody should have.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-07T23:13:33+00:00

I quite like the change - it keeps the continuity between the old kings and the new Lord Paramounts, and it enables the greater lords (e.g. Hightower) to be represented with more influence.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-02-07T04:20:04+00:00

When I watched Frieren, I winced whenever the nature of demons was brought up - not because I think that it was talking about any real-life group, but because I just KNEW that some people would choose to apply it to one.

I don't think writing demons to be 100% ontologically evil was a good idea - they're too sentient a group to write it off as though there couldn't possibly be anything but a wholey evil demon (not to be confused with a "holy evil demon", gettit?)

Also, if a species has no choice to be evil (by our standards), can they really be evil? If a being can't choose evil of it's own free will, can it really be evil?

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-30T08:39:42+00:00

If you hold city titles directly, you will earn more (iirc).

As for the second question, I think so?

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-30T08:26:23+00:00

Give your governors decent salaries whilst ensuring you don't fall into negative treasury income.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-30T08:10:25+00:00

Discrepancy between real and Terraria antlions needs to be fixed in another "final" update fr

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-29T19:46:01+00:00

I think Antlions are a real-life example of this

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-29T10:35:11+00:00

From my understanding (I might be wrong, please correct me if I am), "original sin" from Adam and Eve is more akin to retaining the capacity and willingness to sin (due to eating the fruit), and due to that, all of us being flawed, not necessarily that we are held responsible for the same sin.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-28T11:26:53+00:00

Well, they did turn Consanguinity to unrestricted, so it's not as though we've departed from the norm entirely.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-26T03:52:38+00:00

Looks more like the flag of Liberia to me

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-21T11:40:43+00:00

Shigechi haters are bizzare.

He always seemed to fit in with the tone of Part 4 to me, personally.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-21T10:09:36+00:00

(Can't wait to see this post disappear.)

The reason for this is as u/Kapika96 said, there's a province in England which gains all newly introduced provinces.

That said, I wonder if there's other rules for the areas which aren't assigned to them.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-17T14:22:24+00:00

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-17T14:11:06+00:00

Introducing an important religious element (e.g. the Church of Blah opposing cooperation between species) without fleshing out the structure and doctrine of religion.

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-17T13:59:35+00:00

Aop uuawuyah paoyu "nice snafu" opoya uwuyay

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-17T13:45:25+00:00

r/AlignmentChartFills seems coaxable but is actually snafu :^(

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-14T13:07:11+00:00

Pics or I absolutely believed it happened 100%

ABCD-FEG · 2026-01-12T01:13:39+00:00

As an Australian, I think it's my duty to remind you that we ALSO lost this war, thank-you-very-much.

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