> I'm not sure it's safe to extrapolate broad cultural trends from that. Then it's a good thing that I'm not doing that. I'm not extrapolating, I'm referencin

> I'm not sure it's safe to extrapolate broad cultural trends from that. Then it's a good thing that I'm not doing that. I'm not extrapolating, I'm referencing an example (however fictional, I don't think anyone has accused the Bard of a lack of verisimilitude?) that should be familiar to most people here. Are you arguing that all those knives and swords were merely decorative? That men solved their problems with, I dunno, words rather than weapons? Isn't that kinda the whole point of human history: learning to use words instead of sharp bits of rock or metal?