"We dared not, You think youself a being of power but in the scale of worlds you are not. Had the Despiser not been betrayed by the Illearth stone you would not have stood against him so much as once. And he is wiser now."
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Quoted from the book when I got home. If someone is lying I would prefer to think its infelice rather than Findail.Lacking the venom, you would be too small to threaten him. If he did not seek you out for his own pleasure you would wander the world without purpose, powerless against him. And the Sunbane would grow, devouring every land and sea in turn until even Elemesnedene itself had fallen, and still it would grow, and there would be no halt to it. Seeing no blame for yourself, you would remain trapped within the arch. But no other stricture would limit his victory. Even we, the Elohim, would in time be reduced to mere playthings for his mirth. While Time endured, the Desecration of the world would not end at all."