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*** He bred the Dragon, so he can and does do that kind of thing.
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* Why exactly are the Svart Alfar AlwaysChaoticEvil? I've always found it a bit awkward when fantasy fiction depicts a whole race as inherently evil, but in most cases the writer at least provides us with some explanation; in Lord of the Rings, for example, the Orcs are AlwaysChaoticEvil because Sauron made them that way. In The Fionavar Tapestry, however, there's no explanation provided. The Svar Alfar simply ''are'' evil, period. And they don't even seem to mind that Rakoth Maugrim sacrifices them by the hundreds, or thousands, to carry out his plan. Again, if Kay had provided with some explanation for this (perhaps Maugrim has direct mind control over them?), it would make more sense, but as such we have to accept that there's a whole race of inherently evil beings who obey their evil leader mindlessly, even if this means their own death.

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* Why exactly are the Svart Alfar AlwaysChaoticEvil? I've always found it a bit awkward when fantasy fiction depicts a whole race as inherently evil, but in most cases the writer at least provides us with some explanation; in Lord of the Rings, for example, the Orcs are AlwaysChaoticEvil because Sauron made them that way. In The Fionavar Tapestry, however, there's no explanation provided. The Svar Svart Alfar simply ''are'' evil, period. And they don't even seem to mind that Rakoth Maugrim sacrifices them by the hundreds, or thousands, to carry out his plan. Again, if Kay had provided with some explanation for this (perhaps Maugrim has direct mind control over them?), it would make more sense, but as such we have to accept that there's a whole race of inherently evil beings who obey their evil leader mindlessly, even if this means their own death.
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*** Maugrim before his imprisonment, presumably. They ''are'' essentially his "orcs".

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