On Kharajyr Intelligence - A Rebuttal

[Hanrahan 2983]

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K H A R A J Y R   I N T E L L I G E N C E

 

 

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I N T R O D U C T I O N,

 

To begin with, I decongradulate my Academic opposite, Mr. Julius Kortrevich, on his unfortunate paper, On the Brain of the Kharajyr. While he does employ scientific methodology, he works on faulty assumptions, and therefore, comes to faulty conclusions. Instead of tackling matters of the mind, and brain, we shall address the concept of intelligence, and how it may be exhibited and metricized.

 

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Intelligence, is a tricky quantifier to define. It has no objective existence; we cannot feel, taste, see, or hear it - but it does exist. The question is, does it exist as a social concept, or a biological one? Intelligence, as a social concept, may be defined as a base of wisdom and knowledge, and how effectively one uses those two resources. Biologically, we may look to define it as decision making abilities relevant to life. A gazelle that is careful around a crocodile watering hole may be defined as intelligent. But is it an inborn behavior in the gazelle, such as a bird’s flight - or is it learned, such as a dog rolling over? 

 

Perhaps then, it is best defined as the rate, and depth to which a living being can learn. In this then, we see both the simple and the complex exhibit signs of learning. Animals and Sentients - being descendants and other genus of homo - can learn. But what is learning? Learning, is the ability by which a sentient entity - sentient meaning, ‘aware of itself’, can take on new information and behavior that is not inborn to it. Mankind did not have the innate ability to write, for example - we had to invent and learn writing, and continue to do so by teaching our youth.

 

Learning behaviors are seen in many species, from homo horenus - mankind - to canis familiaris - the common dog. This proves that learning, and thinking is not dependent on species, or even sapient status, but is shared by many types of life-forms. Surely, the brain of a dog is much smaller than one of a man, but still the two can learn.

 

 

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The question then becomes, do the Kharajyr Learn? If they learn, then, therefore, they can be considered intelligent. To what degree may be further addressed in the third portion of this essay. The Kharajyr are, like any genus of ‘homo’, however ‘artificial’ (as in not created by the almighty God and counted amongst the descendant races), still capable of much we identify with ourselves. They have the ability to speak, to form complex words, sentences, and ideas. Kharajyr care for their young as we do, and must educate them. This alone is evidence that the Kharajyr exhibit intelligence, as their unfortunate and ignorantly compared parallel; housecats, do not teach their young, and instead, let them fend for themselves on instinct past nursing. 

 

 

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Having deduced that Kharajyr exhibit learning behavior, we may now take a closer look at their culture and lifestyle to determine to what extent they are intelligent, by how in depth their culture of learning is. Kharajyr live in communities with division of labour - a warrior caste, a religious caste, a labour caste, and a manufacturing class. This is a complex system that requires writing - a learned, and learning behavior - as well as philosophical thought and economic complexity. Were the Kharajyr to be a communal peoples living by hunting, they could perhaps be considered primitive and of lower intelligence - but this is not the case. Kharajyr have the ability to be bilingual, which many humans even lack - speaking in both their native tongue, as well as Jorenic common. They have also, historically, been able to create massive architectural projects both above, and below ground, requiring the organization of thousands of labourers, and multiple decades of time. Such constructs were done by Kharajyr hands and minds, and can easily rival any constructs of our own human past.

 

The Temple of Meztli, Anthos, Karakatua.

 

[chaosgamer_ 764]

Rha'kir is planning a party already for Mister Napier as a thank you for his work!

[AndrewTech 3334]

Taking a sip from a mug of hot, steaming tea, an elderly Dame Celestine Herbert HKML would simply smile as she reads through the rebuttal, and only that. She would say nothing more, nothing less, though warm her heart these words did.

[CheekyNolan 5420]

"If it has fur, offer it a slur!" comments one Aleksandr Ruthern.

[Crevel 7561]

19 minutes ago, Hanrahan said:

The question then becomes, do the Kharajyr Learn? If they learn, then, therefore, they can be considered intelligent. To what degree may be further addressed in the third portion of this essay. The Kharajyr are, like any genus of ‘homo’, however ‘artificial’ (as in not created by the almighty God and counted amongst the descendant races), still capable of much we identify with ourselves.

 

"Perhaps.. this is yet another Napier that wishes to convince others that intimacy between a human and a beast is okay." Anders Bishop Henrikev would ponder after recalling the rumour of a certain Napier and his orc wife.

[AndrewTech 3334]

3 minutes ago, Nolan_ said:

"If it has fur, offer it a slur!" comments one Aleksandr Ruthern.

 

Aleksandr var Ruthern the Elder, former Count of Metterden, would take the opportunity to glare in disapproval at his grandson's antics from across the street.

 

Thereafter, he would hobble off toward a nearby stall in the market district in order to purchase a sack of prunes.

[Gustando 1990]

"Booooo, blasphemy! Hang t'e eretic off a bridge!" A commoner spat a fat, atomic phlegm at the missive. Adjusting his straw hat and licking the straw the was in his mouth before meandering off with a scythe in his hand as he went to continue tending to his farm.

[garentoft 9265]

1 minute ago, AndrewTech said:

 

Aleksandr var Ruthern the Elder, former Count of Metterden, would take the opportunity to glare in disapproval at his grandson's antics from across the street.

 

Thereafter, he would hobble off toward a nearby stall in the market district in order to purchase a sack of prunes.

"Hauchpapej, just before vy get mad at vyr other grandchildren, none of us like Aleksandr either!" Harren quickly added, to avoid allegations of racism against himself!

[Mady 3771]

Late at night after a long day, Annika Anastasija would lay by the fireplace, lounging on a luxurious Kha Skin rug as she read over the stady. "Ba!" She exclaimed. "They have nie souls. . . I liked the Kortrevich's study much better." she declared to her husband seated beside her. 

[Zanthuz 1863]

The brother of Juliyus Kortrevich would routinely clasp together his Kharajyr tooth necklace over his neck as he woke up each morning in Jerovitz. “Juliyus, shall we go find another Kha’ so vy can be fitted with a necklace like mine?” Sir Viktor Kortrevich would comment as he fiddled with his necklace.

[Quinn275 415]

Juliyus Kortrevich turns to his brother Viktor, "I believe so, I shall jolt down the process for the Krafters. Have you read that attempt at a rebuttable? A Halfbreed, a mix of human and orc no less, ironic that they would be the one to talk of intellegence..."

[latte 2238]

A figure simply shrugged as she glazed over the missive. "At least the Kha do nie breed with orcs" .

[Herod 1417]

The young Kaustantin Baruch specializes in selecting Kha fur rugs for the Royal Family as Court Chamberlain, upon the inspection of a fine black rug made of a hunted Kha, he looks back to the missive nailed onto his office and laughs heartedly. “HAH! If Khas were intelligent as humans, they would nie be free real estate!” The boy would continue to laugh before gasping upon realizing the stuffed head of the dead Kha was staring at him.

[winterblood 11181]

"Suppose if I could have one thing, one true beauty; a final prize. . ." Yrsa thought aloud to a mousy barmaid, using the back of her hand to wipe her mouth from the foam of her ale.  The sellsword was reclined in a chair, mud-caked boots propped up onto a table as she idly tried to balance her mug of ale on her gut as an absent way of entertaining herself.  "Would be a fine coat fashioned from the pelts of those catfolk.  I'm too poor to own a rug, go no home."

[Ryloth 4321]

11 hours ago, Hanrahan said:

The Temple of Meztli, Anthos, Karakatua.

 

The paper had finally found its way to Haskir's opulent estate in the county of Aaz Hahdrim just North of Karinah'siol, and after briefly reviewing the title he prepared for what he fully expected to be a pleasant read. A fine white smile cracked along his black maw as he peered over a shockingly accurate depiction of the Anthosian Temple of Metztli and its great stonework, statues and gilded walls standing strong in both gold and lapis lazuli. Clapping his hands together once in satisfaction he then began to wonder what all the malding Kharajyr-hating humans thought of the rebuttal to Julius Kortrevich's miserable works.

"I'm certain all the make-believe Kharajyr hunters are steaming at the ears in unison. Profound, the notion." He mulls through a pile of minas on the tabletop at which he sat before looking out the window to his galleon tethered at the naval docks of his dragonkin port. Nearby stonemasons on the beach head cut away at local limestone to fashion chateau walls. He tucks away the study before preening his whiskers betwixt a set of ebon-black digits, wondering then if he might visit Providence to meet the Napier. After all, he'd had a pleasant run-in once or twice on political business with the father of the half-man long ago.

 

"I wonder when one of these supposed hunters will try their luck with me." He muses, eager and hopeful that more tanned Wick skins might drape his bed chamber's cold floor, disgusting as they were to keep around.