[He'd not expected agreement in any case. This is just him tentatively introducing new points of views to him hoping it will help build a foundation for Gadriel to... reconsider some tof his beliefs.] And yet a paranoid mind that sees enemies even when there is none can easily put that same empire to the torch.

[He wonders bemusedly if he should take offence at that but he's just to amused that Gadriel thinks his general kindness prevents him from being a harsh taskmaster in other areas of his life.] Looks can be decieving. I prefer to be kind when and where I can, but what is kindness in one circumstance is anything but in another. Himring was a harsh and dangerous place and so I could not afford to be soft with those who served under me there. It would not have been a kindness had I done so. [You only think that because you haven't seen him in battle yet. There's a reason he used to send the orcs running the moment he showed his face on the field.] I can assure you I was a very harsh taskmaster.

Planetbound? [Travel the stars?] I do believe we are... but that has little to do with what I speak of, I think? Our souls are linked to the world in a way humans are not. When you die you do not linger. You go someplace else. [He's pretty sure no elf would do any 'exterminatusing' even if they had that sort of technology.]