If there was a briefcase full of hundred dollar bills over there that someone told me was mine by right, I’d be pretty attached to it. If they then added the caveat that there was a massive dragon squatting on the thing who also believed the briefcase was theirs, I do not think I would try and steal the briefcase. Would you?
But they don’t get the flak for stealing it. They get the flak for claiming it afterwards “because of the curse”. It’s not avarice that is the main problem—it’s the being enthralled. And I can’t quite get it. Why not just say “boo greedy dwarves” but go the whole way of “boo greedy dwarves who up and got themselves enchanted”? What does the enchanted bit do?
If there was a briefcase full of hundred dollar bills over there that someone told me was mine by right, I’d be pretty attached to it. If they then added the caveat that there was a massive dragon squatting on the thing who also believed the briefcase was theirs, I do not think I would try and steal the briefcase. Would you?
But they don’t get the flak for stealing it. They get the flak for claiming it afterwards “because of the curse”. It’s not avarice that is the main problem—it’s the being enthralled. And I can’t quite get it. Why not just say “boo greedy dwarves” but go the whole way of “boo greedy dwarves who up and got themselves enchanted”? What does the enchanted bit do?