User blog comment:SsVivid/Divisional Split Theory/@comment-4536066-20130624011759

You know, I was just thinking this morning when I was lying in bed deciding if I was rested enough to get up for the day, and it occurred to me: the community could really use a sister-theory for this to explain icyene. They have a lot of the same points:


 * A number of people play this race in RP, despite official content that suggests against it. In fact, there are meant to be fewer icyene than even Mahjarrat.


 * A lot of people who do play them do make the extra effort to explain why their particular icyene wasn't wiped out and hasn't been accounted for in lore. That's good and responsible, but there are so many icyene in rp that all of the little explanations sort of stop making sense.


 * Icyene are supposed to be impossibly rare, but be honest, how many of you have characters who have seen more than one in their lifetimes? How about more than three? More than six? My Gwyn, who is a very normal human, has met several icyene over the three years I've played her, but how is that possible when you consider that, in lore, they're supposed to be near extinct?


 * Despite these things, people are going to keep playing them, whether we like it or not. I try to believe in harm reduction, which is an approach based in the philosophy that it's good to reduce the harm done to the community (or whoever) by adapting policies to accommodate reality and avoid making problems worse by enforcing policies that, in the long run, cause more harm than what they fix. The goal is giving people their rights back in ways that cause fewer issues overall, rather than dropping a heavy hand and saying, "NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT!" and then getting mad at the following discontent.

So, what I'm thinking is that it would be great if someone could create an icyenic theory that explains where all these birdmen are coming from and why nobody ever mentioned it before, so that everybody can get on board and things can make just a little more sense.

Lol, thanks for listening.