What settings have techy warlike races? I hate MMOs but Charr are a welcome change from the ''warlike = stone age'' trope they invented submarines and airships instead of going ''ooga booga muh axes'' like most warlike races in fantasy.
What settings have techy warlike races...
Oliver Hill
Charles Williams
The orcs of Middle-Earth had the greatest technology due to them being representative of the evils of Industrialization. Though this is most likely due to Sauron originally being apprentice of Aulë the Smith so he was all about building and crafting.
Either way the orcs ended up having the most advanced tech including medicine which while very painful was highly effective.
David Gray
>most advanced tech
>still punching bags of the setting
Aaron Mitchell
Of course.
Tolkien was against industrialisation and nationalism, which the orcs embodied with their love of machines and approach to warfare. So in his fantasy world, the negative aspects of industrialisation are played up and it is more of a crutch for the blatant inferiority of the orcs, who are smaller and weaker than men.
Jack Rodriguez
>against nationalism
>made LoTR in part as a way for brits to have their own folklore.
What?
Landon Foster
I agree with this. The most militant nations and peoples in human history have often had the highest technology. If you want a history of warfare, look at Europe from 1000 to 2000. It makes the rest of the world look like a peaceful place by comparison.
Camden Jackson
That's not really nationalism in the sense Tolkien thought of it.
To Tolkien, nationalism was WWI and all the shit he went through during it. Tolkien loved the country he lived in but he was highly suspicious of unquestioning, fervent nationalism, because he had been where it led.
Gavin Rogers
Patriotism != nationalism
Jayden Sanders
Us, humans, best race.
Zachary Powell
Without nationalism, patriotism doesn't exist, quite objectively.