Timeline for How could medieval ships protect themselves from giant mermaids?
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| S Apr 20, 2021 at 22:20 | history | suggested | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
typo corrected
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| Apr 20, 2021 at 16:18 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 1, 2021 at 12:53 | comment | added | Codes with Hammer | Perhaps the orca merfolk thought of this first, and the whole mer pirate vs mer escort business is a protection racket? And how could we landfolk tell the difference? | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 11:47 | vote | accept | icewar1908 | ||
| Mar 30, 2021 at 23:48 | comment | added | user1547672 | Added a separate answer with the hostage flavor. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 19:24 | comment | added | Willk | @user1547672 - that idea is a whole different flavor from mine and an excellent one. If you post it you have my upvote. It smacks of a desperation move - making the humans unethical monsters (maybe they are pirates?) and offers the prospect of juvenile mermaids up on deck, where they can be characters. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 19:01 | comment | added | user1547672 | I think you could add "mermaid hostages" to this answer. The escorts might only be escorts because the humans have their young hostage. Or, alternatively, the would-be pirates know that some of their young are held hostage and will be killed if certain ships are attacked. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 14:30 | comment | added | Michael come lately | "... by their ruddy complexions." Your joke is less relevant since someone's edit to OP's typo. Might be best to drop it. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 2:04 | comment | added | DKNguyen | This is the answer. Most other answers are forgetting these mermaids have human level intelligence and are treating them as beasts. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 0:02 | history | edited | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 18 characters in body
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 23:11 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |