A way to end the war with chalced [posible spoilers]

[Farseer]

I'd also like to bring up Fermi's paradox, where it is proposed that as a civilization grows in power, it will ultimately reach a point where it will destroy itself.

Just a quick comment as I think this fits quite nicely with Fermi's Paradox!

In Chapter Twenty-Six of SOM, Ronica is speaking with Keffria about Ephron and his refusal to trade up the Rain River like his father and grandmother before him. She says,"And though his father and grandmother had traded in Rain Wild goods, he always felt they were tainted...too much magic. He always felt that sooner or later, such magic would have to be paid for. And he did not think it was honourable, in a way, for him to bring back to our world the magic of another place and time, a magic that had, perhaps, been the downfall of another folk. Perhaps the downfall of the entire Cursed Shores. Sometimes he spoke of it, late at night, saying he feared we would destroy ourselves and our world, just as the Elder folk did."