is that me, crouched at the feet of god? of course it's not

"I lack the tail to swim quickly. But, instead, I have two arms and eight legs I can move at will, so can write tomes five times faster than those two-armed fools, and I can spit out the ink needed to write my spells at any time. Just you wait. Someday I'll put you insolent mers in your damn place!"