All they know is "an elf" asked for very specific information the government/military thought well buried, and which they want to keep buried.
You make a good point, also, the legends plus the elf caravan might make it so that they won’t touch the elves in the woods, lest they make an entire country at risk cause of a certain high elf curating natural disasters like it was nothing
Yeah, normally I'd say it would probably be worth trying to kill him, since he's the only other person who knows how to manufacture those weapons. In this case however, it's nonsensical - the guy has been traveling around the world for who knows how many decades, yet presumably no other country has gotten ahold of the method. That means he is no threat, a least on this matter.
Given that entire nations got to great lengths to accomodate the elven caravan and their diplomatic ties to elves, I don't think a bunch of wizards would have the balls to directly mess with them. Unless they thought they could keep it under wraps, but that kind of thinking pretty much disqualifies one to name himself "wizard"...
Unless he was wrong in expecting them to know who he was, this does not make any sense. If they have identified him, then they know he has been touring the world for longer than most of them have been alive. He'd have plenty of opportunity to leak any secrets he might have.
If they know he was the pioneer, then they also know he could already have leaked the technology to all of the world, he's been gone for decades, after all. Since no one else seems to have it still, clearly he hadn't - what's the point of trying to kill him now? If anything, it would be far more sensible, to try to butter him up, after living so long who knows what other goodies he could share with them.
That only makes sense if they don't know who he was, which means he himself has hugely overestimated their intelligence network, since he expects them to know.
Yeah i assumed that if they are keeping a tight lid on information regarding Kaushman theyd know people who are close to him
I was thinking that such an important person like kaughman would have a background check regarding his family and associates which would lead to the government learning that kaushman developed his magic alongside an elf but i guess either kaushman kept his mouth tight about aesir or their military wasnt able to do a thorough check on kaushmans history
He was a random elf who was friends with the guy many decades ago, and at best they have paper records and some hearsay from the guy. He also by his own admission didn't expose quite a few things while he was there. What in the fuck are you expecting, exactly?
There's a limit to the amount they could possibly know, that they have even been given the chance to know, none of which includes a reason to initiate diplomacy instead of force. "They were friends" isn't a good reason.
I'm expecting that he himself should be able to better guess how much they know about him than you. Does that sound far fetched?
No one even brought up this "reason", dude though I agree it's without a doubt dumb. The point of knowing who (still among the living) was close to him is that they likely have valuable information. Under ordinary circumstances it might be preferable to silence them in order not to risk their monopoly on the weapons, but as you yourself noticed - it's been decades. Meaning, if these people were a threat to said monopoly, every country would already have the same technology. Since that's not the case (othwerise maintaining strict secrecy would be pointless), it means they are no threat. They might, however be worth at least attempting to work with.
Build shit that probably classifies as magical nukes or something considering his backround and it being a military secret.
I don't think they figured out who Aesir was, beyond "some elf who's clearly not a rando is asking around about the guy who made all our top secret gear in the middle of a war". Like, imagine an idk Spaniard or Turk (ostensibly neutral countries) show up in an American university insistently asking around about Einstein in 1942. You'd send people to spy on him too.
And he himself said that they wouldn't know enough and would likely come after him, like I said, and they did so.
You've not thought this through at all. They probably do know he was a friend of his, so what? How does that stop the possibility that the enemy nation also knows that this was his friend and they asked/bribed him to try and gather information on the magic tool's inventor and other espionage, or something similar?
Why would they know that? This isn't the modern day with instant access to near infinite info and countries sharing info on request. They might have records of him there from him being there and his bro talking about the elf that helped him develop his tools but just knowing his life story is unrealistic.
Maybe, but I'm to the point where if I see an incorrect technical detail like this, I assume it's author ignorance rather than implied hand-wavey magic
