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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Xavier McShane</b>
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You mention several times throughout your site that
the nation of Flora's advancement is comparable to
that of a state such as Verduria, Kebri, etc. Yet in
the Atlas there is little mentioned about the flaids'
political or material history, or their relations with
the humans and ilii (or ktuvoki?). Do you know how
they achieved this degree of development?
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Flaids are full of contradictions. They are peaceable, yet fiercely repel
antagonists; conservative by nature, yet inquisitive and ready to adopt
other people's good ideas; overall staid and intensely domestic, and yet
playful in their humor, and rambunctious as youths. They think humans
are mercurial and obsessed with sex and meaningless rituals; yet they
love nothing more than deep, abstract studies-- alchemy, trigonmetry,
and morality are favorite subjects-- though they are also always in the
mood for stories, or large meals.
<p>To answer your question more directly, the flaids are great copiers,
and often improve things as they copy. And they are virtually next door
to the Verdurians and the Kebreni, the great innovators of the North.
<p>An earthly analogy might be Taiwan: a country which has never exactly
been at center stage in history, and has no great resources, but which
rather quietly succeeded in raising itself
from poverty to First World status in half a century.
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