[HerenIstarion]

M-m, my mistake, than

I will still pledge the innocence of the accused. An analogy is in order here:

Won't you be surprised to see some great squid coming out of the sea to say in perfect English (or Esperanto) that octopuses some of us have been eating all their lives were in fact his/her cousins and he/she was deeply hurt by our uncultured behavior and requested wereguild?

True, intelligent octopus is harder to guess out than upright-going petty dwarves, but the principle is the same. Besides, let alone cousins, what we, as a race, will try to do to intelligent squid in the first place?