Before you post something here, it is best that you actually READ THE STORY. This is a Just Bugs Me page, not a place for you to Complain About Books You Haven't Read. * Why is everyone non-human saddled with such a massive idiot ball? The potential weapons applications for portals alone could have destroyed Earth a dozen ways, but the author seems to have made every non-human so unrelentingly stupid that these applications are never thought of, let alone implemented. * * They're not. Their abilities are limited by the level of technology they have available which is essentially bronze age.The daemons do learn and they learn fast but the gap is too great to be bridged. In the initial campaign they used what amounted to medieval tactics (actually based on the battles of Agincourt