Keysi, on 20 April 2015 - 09:05 PM, said:
From what's been revealed so far, the Jaghut didn't deserve all the suffering inflicted upon them. They have mostly been described as pacifists, though there is the odd tyrant, but they are a rarity and usually delt with by other Jaghut anyway.
Plus collective punishment is not a good way to go about it.
Though I am expecting a possible big reveal that they were not always pacifists perhaps....it was mentioned once I think that they did not always live in solitude, maybe we will find out that when they did live in communities they were right nasty bastards too. Just a wee thought.
I am rereading Deadhouse Gates, and there is this section, where Sormo and the Wickan mages take on the Semk god, where it ti smentioned that the Jaghut rituals of Omtose Phellack destroyed entire civilizations including those of the K'Chain Chemaille and the Forkrul Assail. So the Jaghut are not pacificsts. I don't know what gave you that idea. They just don't conduct an organized war, being hyper-individualistic (and even this is qualified RAFO for details). But they are masters of the disproportionate response.
I get you are very anti-Imass and pro-Jaghut thanks to the MoI prologue. Just read on, pay attention to Tool's PoVs and think on this line that nothing comes without a cost, so for the power and the ferocity the Imass gained through the ritual, what did they pay?