Everyone's familiar with this famous photograph taken by one of the only survivors of the Rain of Colorless Fire on his way out of town:
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| What have we wrought? |
Look at this dude's posture: he seems calm, one hand resting on the battlements, the other
covering his downcast face. Is this the posture of a man in shock or horror at the holocaust he is witnessing? To me, his demeanor has always suggested that the Suel people knew that
they'd earned this fate. After the centuries of exploitation and
tyranny and the Devastation they'd just Invoked, this
dude's demeanor was evidence that the Suel knew that the time of reckoning had
finally arrived.
In DCC terms, he just rolled a "1" on his spell check and got the most catastrophic result possible....
ReplyDeleteOne, or even two, among the Suel might have had the humility to think that way, but I doubt the population as a whole did.
ReplyDeleteThis guys does seem resigned to his fate, however, I'm thinking it's more of a "how could we let this happen" thing.