If you don't mind, I'll try to re-parse your grammar and sort out the franglais. Any doubts about you being in France are now dispelled.
At least, over here. You have a slightly different "take" on these things but I think, at bottom, that we are in agreement.
French has structures, dealing with social interaction, that English does not have. Therefore, it is difficult to translate and convey the meanings of those structures that you find so natural. It's a slightly different way of looking at societies and how they work; the French way of looking at things. It is almost more important to know that this difference exists than to define what, exactly, those differences are. Yes, my French is abyssimal. English is flexible but sometimes you need a common referant or that flexibility does you no good.
Neko7 wrote:
I have the feeling that I read somestuff that does not go with my anderstanding of the story.
Tsuiraku disappearance: Tsuiraku's disappearance was NOT what provoked the Errant War.
For a certain time a bunch of xenophobic, self-centrist-religious-crazy elves were talking against half-elves and humans (other the pityfull servant), they weren't a majority, but they were talking loudly, increasing the tensions between the different faction.
Yes, the religious whackos were creating a ruckus.
Note that Meji also said that Tsuiraku was hidden to avoid the religious nuts. She wasn't talking about the Veracians/Luminositans there, Tsuiraku disappeared before they existed. The only group that could apply to were the Elves and humans who were preaching that elves mixing with humans was evil and that half-elves were an abomination. They were probably using the occasional Errant birth as a sign of this abomination status.
Slamlander wrote:
Remember that Tsuiraku's disappearance was the major trigger for the Errant War.
Nowhere did I imply that it was the only cause.
Neko7 wrote:
The half-elves and humans, who had to endure the degrading rethoric of those guys, were mostly involved in Tsuiraku's building and populating process. When Tsuiraku disappeared, it should have provoked a surge of anger and frustration within the human and half-elf population, specialy since the religous extremist elves were blaming the half-elf population for that event, and like every surge of anger, they were looking for someone or something to focus their anger on. The easy choice was this group of xenophobic elves, who use the anger to prove that humain and half-elf are unstable, untrustworthy, and want to kill and destroy the elve's way of life. Increasing the tension already largely built between them closer to a full scale war than ever.
This is where we depart from current cannon but not by much and it's largely an interpretive issue. From
Sarine's statements we know that it escalated pretty fast, less than a month. I actually think that you are more correct, given the data from Meji's earlier statement. However, it's a very subtle difference and not enough to revise the Wiki, yet. (I will be making a note of it though.)
Neko7 wrote:
In that situation, those fact are just a drop in the bucket, and the reappearance of Tsuiraku would most likely not be something that would lead the elves to question themselves; after all they ARE the most perfect race created by the gods, so if everyone is wrong, they are the ones who are most likely the less wrong of all, non?
Elvish arrogance is certainly not to be understated.
Neko7 wrote:
Now for the ambassador and the show of force: when Sarine arrived, they(Tsuiraku official) thought that she was the ambassador, and they were surprised that she arrived that early (not that she was alone or just with 2 humans).
We have to remember that the errant war never happened in Tsuiraku, the amount of hate, anger or suspicion between common human and elves did not really exist there. The officals were told that the ambassador would arrive "with additional personnel/guards", meaning that it wasn't the case before THIS visit, plus Sarine give them a "false" clue, telling them that some trouble within the elf society is responsible for that deployement of force.
Non!
The officials were only told that the ambassador would be coming early everything else was a part of Sarine's fabrication.
Neko7 wrote:
So discussions about the ambassador value of show of force in the normal visit at Tsuiraku seems a little off in my opinion,
Actually not. But not for the reasons you think. Such posturing always happens. Where it becomes significant is when Rarune discovers that he has a half-elf daughter and that she may indeed be the one that evreyone is looking for. He may not learn both of those things at once. Regardless, his desire to do {whatever} to his daughter will be tempered by what he saw during the posturing. He will know that tearing through Tsuiraku, chasing after her, and leaving massive collateral damage in his wake, is neither going to succeed nor is it even going to be possible before the battle mages try to stop him (and they would probably succeed, since there are enough of them).
So, pre-empted from a destructive rage, he will have to come up with other tactics. Ambassadors aren't usually insanely stupid or psychotic.