Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140425203121/@comment-24999978-20140805092955

I think this viewpoint is rather anthropocentric, many creatures get along fine without a developed sense of sight. Humans only rely on coloured vision due to our dietary requirements, for our ancestors to distinguish different colour fruit to decide which were ripe, which were to avoid etc. Of course, many of our tools have been developed to support that reliance, but some humans lacking sense such as sight are able to adapt, and I am sure the Falmer have evolved a reliance on other sense to aid them (e.g smell or hearing). Some of the tasks outlined in your first post are possible without sight, it is just harder to imagine because most humans rely so much upon the sense that it is hard to understand what they would be like.