Yes, you're right and Greece is an excellent example.
*nods* I wanted to highlight that these people we know so well are historical figures and that, to even their own descendants, they are remote and unknowable. Also that history doesn't record every detail, however hard it tries, and things get misinterpreted and argued over by scholars.
I just couldn't see how Dalish and Dalish lore could survive in that environment. For a while, maybe, but they are a doomed race, I think. There would be scholars who knew how to speak old elven, just as we have ones who can read heiroglyphs, but that would be all, in the end. Empire, with all the pressure that puts upon land, would slowly kill them.
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*nods* I wanted to highlight that these people we know so well are historical figures and that, to even their own descendants, they are remote and unknowable. Also that history doesn't record every detail, however hard it tries, and things get misinterpreted and argued over by scholars.
I just couldn't see how Dalish and Dalish lore could survive in that environment. For a while, maybe, but they are a doomed race, I think. There would be scholars who knew how to speak old elven, just as we have ones who can read heiroglyphs, but that would be all, in the end. Empire, with all the pressure that puts upon land, would slowly kill them.