Talk:Demon Lord/@comment-38413939-20190204182343/@comment-31655597-20190214185249

"With that in mind, one can't claim he wants monsters to be killed (the numerous ways to recover from or avoid this are clear on that), just that he wanted there to be some conflict and resistance among the factions to make things more interesting." You can not create a faction like the Order and expect people to behave peacefully. Even Roddenberry's Federation is now and then inhumane. The fact that the scientists and soldiers in the books are constantly portrayed as if they were completely incompetent disturbs me by the way. Monsters are portrayed as so powerful that any inquisitor with even a bit of brains would first blind a captured succubus. (Or other things that were completely normal in the Middle Ages)

"Heck world guide 3 goes as far as to reveal that there is nothing "normal" about such humans, that they are a shackled existence that were not meant to live like that and monsters restore them to their former rank as living things of endless potential." The following is a speculative theory among heretical theologians: “Humans are creatures who were created with unlimited growth potential in mind from the very beginning. To become an incubus or a hero is not to transcend one's humanity, but to assume one's rightful original human form. Isn't the present condition of humanity in fact the result of some sort of limit being imposed on us?“ [Heroes and Incubi-The Unfettered Ones]

"In most cases, the factor that caused the unshackling is indeterminable. Among them, there are those who broke the limit themselves by continuously accumulating training even after reaching the human limit, and even those who are thought to have never had any human limitations in the first place for some reason." For me, that sounds more like humanity is currently at an evolutionary limit and about to break the limiter itself.

"For another comparison, say a group of people are living in some valley full of a substance that cuts their lifespan by three quarters. They refuse to believe living there is the cause, and they refuse to leave. Would it be right to allow them to stay, to have children and raise them to live the same ignorant, short lives, or would it be right to force them to leave so they can experience a normal human life span? Its an ethical dilemme to be sure, but a strong argument can be made for making them leave." You forgot to mention that they have to be transformed if they want to leave the valley. That they (in this case the women) will no longer be humans.

And as the existence of natural heroes shows, there are already some that are immune to the substance.