The Great Debate

Cultural event

The Sundar of Luma debate the universe, life and everything for a cycle.

The city of Luma had the fortune of hosting the seven greatest (male) minds of elvendom in the 17th century. The cycles of these seven elves intersected by coincidence. These were Nhamashal the Wise, Jhaan the Clever, Hubyr the Intellect, Estellar the Humble, Conall the Determined, Aego the Satirical, and Vaeril the Logical. They naturally decided that women should keep to their places when in Luma, as such a few female intellectuals were excluded from their meeting.   From the first month of the year 1645 these great minds meet once a day for three hours of public debate. There they debated every issue that would come to mind. Soon these meeting begun to attract crowds. Then rumours of them spread outside of Sundar. Soon enough foreigners were asking to witness the debates, or at least get the transcripts. The debates of these elven intellectuals astonished and entertained people across many nations.   For many years these elves debated every day. Their conversations became a matter of general discussion everywhere. Broadsheets in Apex would publish the abbreviated versions of their conversation. The Gods in Solace sent in counterarguments that were debated by the seven. It is said that many of the philosophical advances as well as technological achievements since 1645 had their origin in some sentence or point of debate between these elves.   In 1740, after nearly a century of daily debate the elven intellectuals submitted to the call of the cycle, and went to live in Luma. Many hoped that they would meet up again a century later, but they declined to do this, claiming that their opinions on all matters had been sufficiently explained, and that younger men would have to take over where they left off. All modern philosophy owes a great debt to these elves.