Are all drell this mental, or just the Omega ones?

Hey, drell, what gives? Do you all hate aliens or something? (I thought it was just jellies, but hey, what do I know?)

So I'm walking past Darkly Reflecting Beacon - you know, that jelly arcology that got flushed? - when I notice this crowd of drell.

(Okay there were like twelve, but that's more drell than I've seen in the same place since Katamayla. Anyway, there were plenty of bystanders like me, so let's go with crowd)

There's this one lady-drell standing on a podium, screaming about gods and blood oaths and sacrificing aliens and drowning the unbelievers and shit. Y'know, all "we shall pass through the halls like a breeze, and fall upon the heretics like a sandstorm!" kinda stuff. The full crazy.

So yeah. I thought all that blood-scars-angels of breath stuff was made up for holovision like Tethys Reave and that. Do you drell guys really believe all that stuff? I tried plexing it but it's all snooty hanar academics and TLE fandoms =/

Edit: oh yeah any Enkindled types should probs stay away from Widdershins Spire and the area, just as a heads up.

"Hey Ariyah!"

"What hun?"

"Come read this!"

"Ok"

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Umm, I cant speak for all of us, but I don't really hate any specific race in its entirety accept for the Hanar. -Ariyah

I always assumed having to remember every little moment of your life no matter how utterly banal or pointless (Not to mention having to remember and relive every bit of suffering you have experienced in your life ) it is not very surprising that they probably have a high rate of mental illness.

Or they were Reave cosplayers

Its not a constant thing you know, we do have a modicum of control over our memories.
-Ariyah

What can I say, other than stating the obvious and saying that we can get passionate about certain things?

Tethys Reave's rants and raves were mostly historical accurate. The Old Ways demands sacrifice, dedication and passion. It doesn't mean of course that every follower of the old ways are blood thirsty, they faith has been greatly sanitized after the exodus.

During the height The Faith it was another story. As an example, thousands were sacrificed each decade to celebrate the rule of the Unspoken King. The exact number is actually unknown what is know however is that people were sacrificed until the blood of those sacrifices, flowed from the summit of the Divine Spire all the way to the steps of the imperial palace. Not that sacrifices were only a once in the decade occurrence, many historical papers show that the ruling cast of blood priests expected daily sacrifices, mostly animals, but sometimes drell. (The Unknown King once again upped the stakes by having hundreds of drell sacrifices on the divine spire, daily.)

Scarring and blood oaths are similarly something that has been sanitized, and before you ask, no it was not just blood parts. As I said above drell get passionate and traditional believes are a visceral experience, sometimes it meant blood had to be spilled, other times this means feasts or even orgies had to be had. You can imagine that we came into contact with, and were saved by the far more ascetic hanar we had to reign all of this in.

Now most of the drell who follow the old ways do so in a symbolic way.

As a side note:
Is very similar to the Denunciation of the Ghor; which was made when the Sapphire Empire wiped out the Ghor kingdom, the one of the largest monotheistic kingdom on Rakhana, the halls in this context was the Ziggurat of Anneb, which Ghor had reconcerted to their deity. The Empire solved that 'problem' in the then traditional manner; spilling the blood of the enemy as the priests performed the rites of afferment.

Shame on me for contradicting my husband in public, but he has a tendency to mistake the showy, agricultural temple-building civilizations for all historical drell.

But if you think our gods are vicious, they are gods for a galaxy with reapers in it.

...Please tell me this woman wasn't like, 5'8/174cm, pale brown with yellowish shading, with a scar on her hand and a smaller one at the corner of her eye.

Nobody has wrecked my life as hard as the crazy drell...

No, they are not 'all historical drell' but they are the most awesome ones, and the temple builders, unlike those that came after them, didn't wreck the planet.

So is this one correct to assume that we, the hanar, are the reason that the drell are no longer so barbaric?


Hmm, it believes it is. It never had any idea that the drell were so bloodthirsty, though it probably does explain many things about the species as a whole.


"Passion" such an odd word for what this one would call "undisciplined" and... well maybe it shouldn't say that would be too rude. But it is really not surprised that its kind ruined their planet and almost rendered themselves extinct now.

Mr Humble Hanar, think about it. If you are undisciplined during a blood oath, you're going to kill yourself when you cut or worse, screw up and inflict upon yourself a permanent injury that makes you a detriment to your clan.

And if you're not passionate, you're not going to have the guts to make the cut in the first place.

If you live on a planet where everything is trying to kill you, of course you are going to learn the lessons of the spirits of your world. If the ancient drell didn't do the sacrifice thing they probably would have lost hundreds to starvation or disease instead. they're culling their own population to the amount their resources can nurture. It doesn't make sense for anyone not in that situation to be doing that which is why most drell don't do that any more (not sure about any survivors on Rakhana.)

i'm not even a shaman or a social studies major and i can figure that out.

I know that's scary to think about I can't imagine living somewhere where the Spirits didn't give enough for everyone.

It very much doubts all drell cultures were like this. It would be like judging humanity on Mesoamerican cultures, hanar on the Unspoken Traditions or turians on the various historical nations of the Tellat region.

You don't think we have souls. You don't belong in any thread discussing drell issues.



At least we can own our failures, Uplift. Our homeworld couldn't support us through the dirty industrial stage, but we were doing it by ourselves. I'm tired of species with beacons and prothean caches talking smack. How would you have ever worked it out by yourselves, if the Protheans hadn't given it to you? You can't use fire and you can't see the stars.


...I want to know how many works of drell literature they make you read in school.

No, not all cultures were like that. The temple builders weren't like that all the time, either, and most of the records we have from that era are grand declarations of Kings and epic poems. Full of bombast, iffy on the numbers.

I once knew a drell who made roughly the opposite point - to him, going through life constantly losing parts of one's past, unable to entirely control the process of recollection except by unconscious assessments of how 'important' the memory was (based on who knows what criteria, which may or may not turn out to have been erroneous in hindsight anyway) sounded like a recipe for living in a constant state of identity crisis.

Of course, one could say that life (as we see it) is a constant identity crisis, but if so I guess it's one we've adapted to passably well.

High lands, really? Ana said the same thing back when we both watched the show, but I suppose I assumed she was overstating how much just to mess with me a bit.

I never really thought about it but having the evangelical permits on the Citadel seems to have its good sides.

This one belongs in whichever thread it pleases, dear non-compact



Hmm...

This one is amused, really. The non-compactee, thinks that it, because it completely destroyed its own planet on its own. That it somehow 'owned up' to its mistakes. That it is different from being 'uplifed'

Which is funny, because it owes its entire existence to the hanar. We uplifted you from your own barren husk of a world that you destroyed with your own carelessness. We raised you up, showed you the stars, the enkindlers. And this is how you repay us. By being a sniveling little pile of excrement who can only vomit out words at those that are its better.

Your species is an utter failure like the krogan.

What the fuck is wrong with you HH? You're a shame to your entire species right now! What the hell do they put in your water?

You judge us for not knowing how to build a high space-faring civilization from scratch? You don't know how. You can't know how. You couldn't have done a damn thing without help, not even evolve! Your star is too young and will die too soon!

None of the other species do either! They're all uplifts or uplifts-of-uplifts or used Reaper relays to found colonies and take the pressure off during the overpopulation crisis that did us in. You're not smarter than us. You're not better than us. You're just luckier!




Some portion of my ancestors (remember, my entire mother's side of the family is LATE EXODUS) owe some long dead hanar their lives. And they've been using us for scutwork ever since. You, a fucking hypocrite with a Kepral's link in your sig because it makes you look like you care, have not done a damn thing for me.


Can't make a call on your species, you've never done a damn thing yourself.

And it would have died on its husk of a world without our aid.


This one has done many things for the drell. Of course, these things are never enough for some. Its always more. Always "you should stop enslaving the drell" or "you should find ways to help the drell with the kepral problem" when none of them are even willing too until a compactee saved the life of a councilor.


More than its ever will

Oh yeah? Well then. I wonder how I got here... If you mongrels hadn't stepped in, things would have been difficult, our survival as a race would have been strained, but We would have (and have) survived.

Its Mongrels like you that make me appreciate the kindness of the Krogan. At least they are honest when they are fucking you over. Honestly, How many generations of slavery will it take to sate your ancestor's acts?

-Ariyah






Are you sure about that, Pyjak? Cause, if I remember right, and I think I do, REAPERS. Lets not forget RACHNI too.

I agree with Ari, I don't like you Hanar types.

Please do not think this individual is representative of his species.

This one notes with some distress that the other, A Humble Hanar, is behaving in a most indecorous manner. This one wishes to respectfully remind the other that in speaking so crudely it is misusing the gifts with which these ones have been equipped. May it respectfully inquire as to whether the other is well? It is beginning to become concerned.