Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27036073-20151109053057/@comment-27216905-20151115011239

Phantomlink959 wrote: The war likely ended when all sides realized that the cost was too high and the non human threat too great for them to continue warring with eachother.

It is my personal belief that there has to be more to it than "they all decided they should stop". However, I fear that I have unintentionally steered the conversation in this thread away from the topic of the guardian. Perhaps we should move conversations about the end of the war elsewhere.

As far as using the Tournament to select the Guardian goes: I think the distinction between a "convenient side effect" and a "true (secret) purpose" is a little muddied given how little we really know. Though I would argue that calling any sort of secret reason for the tournament, as I have described it, "ulterior" or "darker" suggests sinister intentions that I find misleading. Sometimes things are done in secret to protect people or to prevent panic. While we can argue whether that those reasons justify the secrets, some credence must be given to an honorable intention.