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September 9 2016, 00:27:25 UTC 10 months ago
September 9 2016, 14:12:51 UTC 10 months ago
Did not know there was an entire changeling Nation, though to be honest I'm still confused as to why they want people to be elf-shot. I did not get that logic.
September 9 2016, 14:48:35 UTC 10 months ago
Without the cure, elfshot might make friends and allies of your target very, very unhappy. With the cure, elfshot [could] become the equivalent of a "shot across the bow" -- a warning that you might cause harm in the future, but not today. The result of this is that elfshot will be used both more frequently and more indiscriminately.
The more common elfshot is the more likely changlings will be hit by it, and really: what are the odds that the cure will be available to a changling soon enough to save their lives? Remember, there is no urgency with getting the cure to a pureblood -- if it takes a few weeks to negotiate for a dose of the cure then no problem. A changling, on the other hand, needs the cure /right away/ (likely minutes, certainly not more than a few hours) before they die. Add to that the fact that changling's rarely have any power of influence in society and the cure might as well not exist for them.
Thus, the result of making the cure widely available will be that elfshot will be used more frequently, changlings will be hit more frequently, and changlings will die more frequently.
Toby (& others) assumed that the cure would cause others to not use elfshot *at all* (declaring it useless), but there is no guarantee that this is what will happen.