DukkhaWaynhim wrote:And you know what they say about absolutists---either you are an absolutist, or you aren't.
Anyway, the only choice they made was to touch the Stone fragment. Hyrim tried to warn them not to, but the
Haruchai are a naive people in many ways. Maybe they didn't think it could do anything without Foul being present. Or maybe they thought they were stronger than the Giants, and could resist anyway. (After all, until then, the
Haruchai, as far as we know, had never been mastered by
any force. Thay had no reason to think they were in any danger.) Whatever made them decide to risk it, they were lost. The insidious suggestion to take the fight to Foul was put in their heads. They weren't exactly mastered at that point, they were just doing what, according to Bannor in
The Spoiled Plains, the Bloodguard had always wanted to do - take the fight to Foul. As always, Foul gets people to do what he wants by making them do what
they really want. And when Foul had them in front of him, mastering them was a simple matter.