Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10993011-20130618024431/@comment-8248675-20130821184447

Lord Hadron wrote: Don't understand why nearly ever single person that has ever debated about parties recovering from a war, stated "Nords reproduce quickly, Elves take hundreds of years". You guys seriously think that the Nords will make hundreds and hundreds of babies and just slap some armor and give them swords just so they can replenish their numbers lost in a war?

What kind of life is that for a child?

Being born into a world with a sword and shield in your hands and getting thrown into a war, but does the Nord child get a say. And if he/she is slain in a war, they are just replaced with another child born.

Talk about slavery... Well as we all know, in vanila version of Skyrim, children are Imortal. Someone even made a joke video of how Skyrim should have ended. Instead of fighiting Alduin himself, Dragonborn picked a boy named Timmy, who sounded like the son of Jarl Balgruf who said "Father says I'm too young to train with the sword, so I train with my fists." Dragonborn told him that that is spoken like a true Nord. Ofcourse, Alduin though it's a joke, so Dragonborn demonstrated that nothing kills those kids. He shot a whole bunch of arrows at him and burned him with fire breath. Then he told those two to have fun while he would take a nap. Timmy kept asking Alduin if he wants to play tag, as he tried killing him and was like "Why won't you die!"

But seriusly, making child soldiers isn't the best thing to do. I agree on that, and I am not quite sure elves take 100 years to make more. They definetly live for a long time, especially Dunmer I believe, but do they really take 100 or years just to become able to make the first child? I might not know something about meri reproduction, but it sounds incorrect to me. So the fact that Nords can make more children quicker sounds irrelevent if not cruel. Unless someone meant it strickly from the point of replenishing population, not making more soldiers. That also reminds me of one fact that made me get dissilusioned with one of the best Russian generals of World War II, Zhukov. Appearantly, he was quite cruel and he used fear withing his ranks to motivate soldiers to fight the enemy. The first thing he did when he arrive to Mongolia that was invaded by Japan (that was before Hitler attacked Soviet Union) was to execute some troops for not doing a good job (those could have been officers only that got executed). After that, he directed all of his armored forces at Japanese positions and hit them so hard, that they were running away leaving behind their artilery and supplies. After that, Japan didn't even want to think of attacking Soviet Union. Apearantly Georgiy Konstantinovich Zhukov, didn't spare much soldiers for the war effort, he sent as many as posible. And he justified it all with saying that "Women will give birth to more." Sometimes I am ashamed that I myself share a name with this general, but then again if it wasn't for him, Nazi Germany might not have been beaten, and he did used Russia's greatest resourse, the Russian people. Also, he wasn't the first one to send as many as possible Russians to die in war. The death toll for Russia in World War I was the bigest one amoungst the participating sides. Partially since Russia had biggest population, partially because they sent wave after wave on million of troops against Germany. How do you think Germans did not take the French fortress of Verdun? Because in the east, Russians kept on comming, even though Germans though that they were beaten for sure. Again and again, Germans had to redirect their troops from Verdun. And how did the French paid the man responsible for that? By not even considering to give him and his family refuge after Russian Revolution. They didn't even want to hear of leting a monarch take refuge in France. Yes, that man was Tsar Nicholas II, who later was commander in chief of Russian army himself and unlike today's commander in chief, he freacuented the headquarters of Russian army, close to the front line. He did all he could to help his allies, even mobilized Russian army, before they were ready completely for mobilizing. But when revolution happened in his country, none of his allies even want to save him and his family. Including his cousin George V, who looked so much like him. By the way, did any of you know, that mother of George V and mother of Nicholas II, were sisters? Danish princeses, one married a British heir, the other married Russian.