A HISTORY OF THE TROLL WARS
When the troll army landed on the shores of Se Molde it was more than inevitable that there would be a conflict with the humans infesting the place. It was preordained. Rock, the troll boss, knew this because the troll gods had told him when they activated him. His folk didn’t know. For them it was an exciting new adventure, now that they had shaken off the Way of Troll with its brutish imperatives.
The human world wasn’t prepared for this visitation. It offered too many problems for the political machinations of the Xandrian City States. It just simply got in the way of living the human way with its destruction of natural resources and the overpopulation and the blatant lack of regard for any other creatures inhabiting the globe in space where they found themselves. It got in the way of politics. It challenged the human order of things as set out in the Social Contract.
Of course, something had to be done and once again, this was where Seagrum the Dwarf came in. He was despatched with a polyglot army of humans and all those other creatures subject to the Social Contract to sort it. He was a dwarf. Things tended to get done. This time though it isn’t skill but pure luck and happenchance that save him, and the humans, hides. Of course, there is collateral damage.
Whilst it might look like it, this isn’t really fantasy, this is allegory. The trollish visitation is meant to represent the non-living aspects of our planet just doing what they do because that is how it goes. Humans and other living things, whatever they might believe, simply have to go along with it because there is nothing that they can really do in the face of the enormous forces of the planet that we live on. The creatures of the Social Contract are meant to represent various facets of human activity as well as introducing the fact that there are other creatures here that are not human and who are also stakeholders in this world. Admittedly there aren’t many actual ogres or werewolves walking the planet but, like I said, this is allegory.
There are a couple of observations to make about some of the factors in the tale. Firstly, there is the simple fact that in the world of Se Molde, humans are not necessarily the top predators. They are preyed upon by numerous creatures that they share their lives with. There is a certain arrogance in humans that considers it a serious indignity to be eaten by another (dare I say lesser) creature. In this world it happens with about the same regularity that humans die as a consequence of motor accidents or violence. Secondly, there is biology. The approach that I have taken to sex in the tale is a little blunt to say the least. This is because I am not looking at the sexual act as a thing of pleasure nor am I trying to put any eroticism into the tale. I am simply describing an urgent imperative to fulfil a demanding biological programme. This regardless of the sex of the person or creature involved or indeed, the creature itself. If we a governed by meiosis, then we are victims of our biology.
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Whilst it might look like it, this isn’t really fantasy, this is allegory. The trollish visitation is meant to represent the non-living aspects of our planet just doing what they do because that is how it goes. Humans and other living things, whatever they might believe, simply have to go along with it because there is nothing that they can really do in the face of the enormous forces of the planet that we live on. The creatures of the Social Contract are meant to represent various facets of human activity as well as introducing the fact that there are other creatures here that are not human and who are also stakeholders in this world. Admittedly there aren’t many actual ogres or werewolves walking the planet but, like I said, this is allegory.
There are a couple of observations to make about some of the factors in the tale. Firstly, there is the simple fact that in the world of Se Molde, humans are not necessarily the top predators. They are preyed upon by numerous creatures that they share their lives with. There is a certain arrogance in humans that considers it a serious indignity to be eaten by another (dare I say lesser) creature. In this world it happens with about the same regularity that humans die as a consequence of motor accidents or violence. Secondly, there is biology. The approach that I have taken to sex in the tale is a little blunt to say the least. This is because I am not looking at the sexual act as a thing of pleasure nor am I trying to put any eroticism into the tale. I am simply describing an urgent imperative to fulfil a demanding biological programme. This regardless of the sex of the person or creature involved or indeed, the creature itself. If we a governed by meiosis, then we are victims of our biology.
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