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And this is a prime example of why countries with strict isolationist policies tend to fall into trouble upon contact with an unknown outside force of significant scale. Isolationism isn't bad itself, but totally cutting yourself off completely without even leaving a spy or two to let you maintain an understanding on current worldly events and mindsets means that you eventually produce political idiots like this one who cannot understand an opponent's intentions upon meeting them, nor expect an enemy to actually be an invading force due to them never knowing what international war is like.
I can sympathize with the lamias who just had babies, as no parent wants to die and leave their child an orphan. But if your three major goals are to 1, protect your family, 2, not die, and 3, protect your territory, then meating an invading armed enemy force head on, outside your territory's defenses, while unarmed, while carrying a key that lets the holder have access the front door of your fortress, and waving a white flag typically understood as a sign of surrender..... it seems like a very easy way to not meet any of those goals. (I know it can mean both offering your surrender and seeking for negotiations, but typically you don't wave the flag as the winning side)
But at least she got to have her peaceful negotiations right? Did she even once think about what happens if the other party doesn't agree to her terms of peaceful coexistence? She was even warned they were not peaceful, and yet, she seems to be just as racist towards outsiders as the humans are.
Also, I don't care how peaceful you want to be seen as being, you don't ever go to a peace negotiation with an armed opponent without having a means to protect yourself. And you most certainly do not bring 3/5ths of your entire military force along with you, also unarmed. Either all weapons are left at the door by both parties, you both are carrying, or you are offering your full surrender.
I can sympathize with the lamias who just had babies, as no parent wants to die and leave their child an orphan. But if your three major goals are to 1, protect your family, 2, not die, and 3, protect your territory, then meating an invading armed enemy force head on, outside your territory's defenses, while unarmed, while carrying a key that lets the holder have access the front door of your fortress, and waving a white flag typically understood as a sign of surrender..... it seems like a very easy way to not meet any of those goals. (I know it can mean both offering your surrender and seeking for negotiations, but typically you don't wave the flag as the winning side)
But at least she got to have her peaceful negotiations right? Did she even once think about what happens if the other party doesn't agree to her terms of peaceful coexistence? She was even warned they were not peaceful, and yet, she seems to be just as racist towards outsiders as the humans are.
Also, I don't care how peaceful you want to be seen as being, you don't ever go to a peace negotiation with an armed opponent without having a means to protect yourself. And you most certainly do not bring 3/5ths of your entire military force along with you, also unarmed. Either all weapons are left at the door by both parties, you both are carrying, or you are offering your full surrender.