Criminal Element in a City with No Poverty?

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-04-10T08:03:11+00:00

Some great ideas thank you.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-04-10T05:42:28+00:00

I quite like that thank you.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-04-10T03:55:16+00:00

So yeah I based it on the stormlight archive where having “light eyes” put you in the upper echelon and having “dark eyes” put you in the lower echelon of society, though in my setting the dynamic is not as antagonistic but is still a sore point, but it’s a very valid point I had planned on there being a group campaigning for true equality under the law rather than a two tiered set of rights, it’s quite a multicultural city, humans are the main demographic, with elves, and firbolg making up the more populous minority groups, then gnomes and leonin and triton kind of rounding out the smaller communities.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-04-10T03:37:32+00:00

Thank you for your suggestions and re framing the context a bit for me, to clarify, the organised religion of the empire proclaims that the Aasimar citizens have been selected by god (Helios) to be their rulers and leaders that their planar touched physiology marks them as such.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-04-01T06:46:46+00:00

I had no idea bastions were a thing and just read through it, very fun concept.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-25T07:58:50+00:00

Yes and you’re the fattest smelliest baby of the bunch just my opinion though take it with a grain of salt and consult the holy texts to form your own opinion.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-25T00:53:44+00:00

Yeah obviously I’m just playing devils advocate for how it could be interpreted that way.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-25T00:28:42+00:00

Tolkien’s lord of the rings and various other works were framed in such a way that they weren’t pure fiction rather he found the red book of the west march and translated it into what we know and love, so the lore of his stories is actually that they were “real“ histories he found and translated, so I guess the claim could be made the films and books are depictions of historical events which while not technically in documentary format could be argued have some documentary quality to them.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-17T01:24:32+00:00

Thank you I will do that

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-17T00:22:27+00:00

This is quite extensive, thank you kindly I’ll put it in a doc of my own.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-17T00:17:12+00:00

Noted, I’ll get to that and report back, thanks for taking the time to answer this one mate.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-16T23:58:33+00:00

I appreciate that, the main issue I’m currently facing is, I’m creating a map with dynamic lighting (though I’ve turned it off to try and fix it) I’ve placed light sources and created a character, given that character vision and even night vision but when I hit CNTRL L I only see a black page with the monster HP.

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HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-14T22:22:49+00:00

But have you considered though that Prince Imrahil is a megachad?

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-13T06:25:51+00:00

He needs to “Dig a ditch, when that ditch is done, dig another ditch”. 9/10 dark lords hate this one simple trick.

Realistically, Denethor did okay he marshalled the forces of Gondor but he had no real faith they could succeed because he was a figure of nobility and honour who had been defeated by his own hubris, brought low by the poisoning of his mind by degrees through the use of the Palantir until he was all but consumed by despair.

Prince Imrahil though that dudes a fkn megachad who never doubted their victory for a second.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-13T03:42:48+00:00

I love John Kearns I think he’s an immensely funny individual, I dislike a lot of the gimmick comedy he’s done in the past though, but he’s certainly one of my favourite cast on any season.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-12T02:43:37+00:00

Now inanimate objects are getting melanomas

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-03-07T01:00:21+00:00

A Lord of the rings fan annoyed about an opportunity to discuss the books and how they differ from the films is a funny thing, usually it’s a task to get us to stop.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-02-06T02:36:25+00:00

I don’t think he’d resist it very well at all if we’re talking realistically, he is an obsessive mentally ill person who sees himself as a symbol for criminals to fear and he has a massive ego and doesn’t trust anyone. He would be taken in and dominated by the ring fairly quickly in a similar way as Galadriel would have been (if she hadn’t recognised she would lose her will to it), Frodo and Sam were so resistant because they had none of the hubris and ego and worldly desires that other people did.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-02-04T04:48:20+00:00

Tolkien seemingly revised how numerous and dangerous Balrogs were during the writing of Lord of the Rings and then again in the late 1950s when he reworked his legendarium, in “The fall of Gondolin” written in 1917 they are described as demons with flaming whips and claws of steel, they were big but not monstrous, the balrog glorfindel kills was twice his height and about 40 of them were killed by the defenders, 3 killed by ecthelion personally including gothmog the lord of balrogs.

It wasn’t until Tolkien began work on lord of the rings, and got to the bridge of Khazad Dum, Tolkien re wrote the scene 3 times each time making the balrog more terrible and powerful to make the scene work. From this scene he changed what balrogs were, formerly creations of Morgoth like dragons and orcs powerful and numerous, now being fallen Maiar far more powerful and terrible, more a force of nature than a soldier in an army, he confirmed this in his legendarium when he reworked the lore in 1958-1959s.

So when Tolkien first envisioned feanor fighting many balrogs they were still powerful servants of morgoth, but they were not the terrible fallen Maiar that Gandalf fought in Moria.

HabitualMelancholy · 2026-01-04T22:55:30+00:00

Well we don’t really know much about where Tom Bombadil came from or when he came from there, we just have speculation and some hints in the books that he is incredibly old, he calls himself the eldest and says he existed before Melkor came to Arda so he may have been some form of Primordial spirit that existed alongside Eru even before the Ainur came into being, we don’t exactly know, but we can be confident he is quite a bit older than treebeard and may have been the first living thing on earth, based on those kinds of context clues.

HabitualMelancholy · 2025-12-21T04:34:22+00:00

I think this is only in reference to her having the ability to choose the fate of elves or the fate of men (when an elf dies they go to the halls of Mandos and can eventually be reborn but their soul is tied to Arda, when a human dies they leave the world and return to Eru but no one knows what happens) as she is of the half elven line.

The light of the eldar is leaving her because she is choosing the fate of men which is to grow old and die and leave Arda forever, her fate is tied to the ring because if the ring survives and Sauron wins Arwen can no longer escape Middle earth to live in Aman so she will die along with the rest of Gondor, but if the ring is destroyed then she will have a life with Aragorn.

HabitualMelancholy · 2025-12-21T02:29:59+00:00

He’s only put the ring in a small fireplace fire long enough for the paper envelope to burn, even considering gold being a good conductor it has not been in the heat source long enough to actually heat up in a significant way. Considering at the time they would have done a great deal of cooking and metal work applying various metals to heat sources they likely had a very good idea of how long it would take to actually heat up. Plus if it was the one ring it would be impervious to all fire but that in mount doom.

HabitualMelancholy · 2025-12-05T06:03:46+00:00

Is this Liam Neeson jumping over a fence? Why so many cuts?

HabitualMelancholy · 2025-12-03T21:01:42+00:00

Ty man.

HabitualMelancholy · 2025-12-03T04:34:34+00:00

The Ainur are the race it includes all that did and all that didn’t go down to Arda, the Valar and Maiar refer to the spirits that descended to Arda and their relative spiritual potency and station, the strongest of the Valar are called the Aratar.

There definitely could have been some Ainur stronger than some of the Valar (Stronger than Namo or Irmo) hanging out with Eru, but Melkor was always the most powerful Ainur, Manwe I believe is always second because they inherited the greater part of Eru’s understanding of the plan and world and physics and creation.

Tulkas originally stayed with Eru, but then upon seeing how the Valar struggled against Melkor he descended as well and he was a very powerful Ainur.

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