Timeline for What mental trait or combination of traits could make a race well suited to warfare?
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| Feb 5, 2016 at 5:23 | comment | added | user16492 | Perhaps they have no normal amygdala, and are 'wired' not to flee, but to fight instead. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 23:01 | comment | added | Trismegistus | @Naos I was going for human in mind with one off mental trait that made them well suited to conflict. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 17:57 | comment | added | user16492 | @Trismegistus That is true, but think of it this way: A tiger has a mind and intentions that are unpredictable. And this tiger wants to kill you. If instead of a tiger, it was a draconic humanoid warrior, that would be quite a foe. If you wanted them to have some relatable emotional states for specific story purposes, such as bonding with characters, then they could share those few needed to make your story work. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 12:40 | comment | added | Trismegistus | @Naos While that works, it would have the down side of making the dragon-folk wholly alien in their thinking | |
| Jan 31, 2016 at 17:36 | comment | added | user16492 | Perhaps they, as another life form different from humans, don't have a real 'emotion' category. Maybe their minds are too different from ours to classify them with emotions that we feel. They can't be called 'angry' in a general sense because their minds don't work in a way that allows 'anger.' So a benefit to this would be that they don't have qualms with killing because, mentally, they just can't have qualms with it in general, which would make them hard to intimidate in battle as well, since their minds can't 'feel' intimidation. (They could still have 'emotions,' just not 'human' ones.) | |
| Jan 30, 2016 at 16:44 | comment | added | Trismegistus | I like this especially because it makes the Dragon-Folk more than a rampaging horde. It would lead to them being a very martial,but still stable culture. Its also seems to be somewhere between own ideas. Numbers 2 and 3 of my answer. | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 20:09 | history | answered | Culyx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |