Sakuto University
Professor Charles Narwin
The Theory of Natural Dominance
Fellow scholars and practicing archaists, I have been in touch with many of you, and my theory of selective natural survival, or Natural Dominance has been a subject of much debate. I wish to offer a counter argument to the Wu Tai University’s Isaac Kolin. You say that the spread of the D.W. Jungle is an act against nature, and its spread will destroy all the different plant forms on the shard. That the spread of D.W. Jungle is essentially an evil act. However, is it not the dominance and spread of humanoid raced across the shard, complete and utter dominance of our livestock similar in its pure essense? Humanoid races, such as homo-sapiens, homo-elvenian, homo-hobgoblinius, and etc, spread through the shard destroying any and all species opposing them without even a second thought? Is it not considered an evil act to kill displacer beasts by thousands, if they chose to hunt down a humanoid creature for food? It is not considered evil that the homo-elvenian eladira wiped out many hundreds of magical beast species in the feywild, so they could live unthreatened?
So, I say to you Sir Isaac Kolin of the Wu Tai University, that humanoid creatures are exactly the same in as the D.W. Jungle. This force of nature sweeps across the shard, and shapes the world how it sees fit for its own purpose. Perhaps when the sentient jungle reaches the same capacity as the humanoid races, it will chose to destroy homo-elvenian species for killing almost all of the homo-elvenian drowasi. Or it will find pity and allow small portions of a deciduous forests or desert ecology to grow. It is after all, the humanoid races that send out kill squads of adventures that travel the multiverse, kill and slaughter anything that gets in the way, and collect whatever bounty that they set their eyes on at the time. As far as we know, this D.W. Jungle is only trying to expand for a sense of survival, which is admirable for humanoid, but heretical for a non humanoid race.
Dr Narwin's transparent mollycoddling of the current spread of jungle life is endearing, but hardly scientifically sound. While it is questionably true that the life of the jungle is, at its core, a living, natural growth (note, however, the theories of Megor Grendel on the jungle's possession of a most pseudo-necrotic nature), and that its spread can hardly be considered an act of evil, the Jungle's rapid expansionism must still be considered, at its very core, an act of aggression. Just as any expanding empire earns its power by trampling upon the weak and defenseless communities in its path, so too does the Jungle encroach upon and usurp the land taken by native plant life, converting it to its own purposes.
ReplyDeleteDr. Narwin would seem to have us sit back and admire the Jungle's desire to survive, and allow it to claim territory in much the same way as all other humanoid and demihumanoid races of the Shard. But what does it offer us? To this day, nothing has come from the aptly named "Death World" jungle, save for horror stories and suffering. Has not the spread of humans brought forth the introduction of common law and responsibility for society? Has not the hobgoblin empire created in its conquered territories aqueducts and paved roads for the benefits of both its own citizens and its conquered people. Have not even the zealot Arkhosians offered written histories and advances in the study of Astral Sciences? Surely a burgeoning empire would grant its conquered subjects boons of its own, to cement its place in the modern, civilized world.
But the Jungle offers nothing but death. Are we to treat it as some rare species, to be coddled and allowed to grow, for some naive pursuit of the sanctity of life? Poppycock! We must treat it as we would any encroaching foreign empire that offers nothing to its conquered - with distrust, contempt, and active hostility. To sit idly by and allow our own so-called Natural Dominance to be eaten alive by the light-choking kudzu of the south - now that, my colleagues, would be a truly unnatural act.
If the Jungle wishes to survive, then we shall see how it fares against our steel and spell. As Dr Narwin so eloquently puts it, we shall see who shall emerge from the conflict possessing Natural Dominance.
I, for one, am confident of the victor.
-Prof. Emer. Isaac Kolin
from "Rebuttal re. Natural Dominance"