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And they would have died without it.
It's hard to say it's continueing when Alethkar won and annexed the Shattered Plains.
As we see in WoR none of the main cast had the ability to do anything about it. Shallan and Jasnah tried to release the parshmen, but they couldn't do anything.
You mean they are killing the soldiers that fight them. That's what war is.
I'm not saying they are, what I am saying is that the War of Vengence is no different from any other war. There is no racial motivation behind it, it is not a genocide, it is simple war, just as the Veden civil war was, or the Alethi wars of Unification. Or any of the countless other conflicts on Roshar.
Against them sure, go right ahead.
It changes quite a deal. The Alethi are not the agressors, in the War of Vengence they are innocent, and the Listeners are guilty, not the other way around.
Not true, Herdaz has some, Reshi isles have some, you could probably find some off the coast of Iri too. And that's just the greatshells. Whitespines, chulls and axehounds all produce gemhearts.
They have non-gemheart dependent agriculture, it just cannot be maintained on Narak.
And yet the Alethi's orgininal intent was to peacfully trade and to be allowed to hunt Chasmfiends. No force, no coersion, just trade.
You mean that the majority of the singers activly participated in a war against humanity with the expressed purpose of wiping them out and the humans as a counterattack accidentally messed up the singers souls. And then the group that wasn't trying to kill all of the humans got to keep their minds, and then later killed a human king who had shown them nothing but kindness and the kingdom got mad about it and wants recompension.
Yeah, very clear metaphor. Who exactly are the bad guys here?
I find the comparison lacking.