Post originally by Nawara at 2005-05-03 21:11:40
Converted from Phorums BB System

> The Warhammer setting has always struck me as
> not just grim but downright depressive. Hope,
> apparently, does not exist. Man is on a
> deathmarch and nothing is going to save it.


> The children born today will be the last
> generation of humans

That's not guaranteed... I think it's like a lot of other "dark" settings, where it will be the last generation unless someone delays the end.

Kind of like... um... the real world. Reference the Barbarian Invasion of Rome (from Roman eyes), the Mongol Invasion (from European eyes), World War II (from modern eyes), and the Cuban Missile Crisis (from everybody's eyes), for example.

> and every single one of
> them will die a hideously painful death
> before they get the chance to grow up.

Sounds like everything I've ever read as a Classics major.

Hell, even Odysseus gets it in the end. He's just lucky in that he gets to put off Poseidon's revenge until he's old.

> what keeps the entir human species in such
> a world from committing suicide en masse?

Same thing as in the real world. Because they've got all of eternity to be dead... no sense in rushing things.

-Jeff