Kintsugi is a Japanese artform of repairing broken ceramic pottery with lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum(actually a subset of Wabi-sabi which is a form of aesthetic philosophy that finds beauty in the flawed, imperfect, transient, and incomplete), such that when repairing the piece of ceramic ware was both functional and still displayed the scares of how it broke it a beautiful way, at least to human standards. A similar phenomenon might be found in those of many cultures and species who chose to keep a scar inflicted by a worthy opponent of a scar of damage on a ship which engaged a worthy opponent or event, after all non-cosmetic health and engineering issues are dealt with of course but pointedly not repairing the cosmetic part of the damages on something that was once beautiful and instead preserving it so it can try to become something even more beautiful even though part of it’s beauty paradoxically comes from entropy. Do the Eldrae hate it, appreciate it, or do they take a nuanced view on the whole phenomenon as my limited understanding of the Eldrae makes me suspect they will?
Asked a similar thing about dominoes once, seeing as they’re satisfying but are basically displays of entropy. The answer was “It’s a broken universe”. Everything good or bad happens because of entropy. Doesn’t mean it isn’t still beautiful or not to be appreciated.
They call that one traólmahara aelva (“the beauty of the remade”); see this language post.
And there’s a certain quotation from Lord Foul’s Bane that is of particular relevance to their attitude here:
“Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about the healing of stoneware pots.”
But you aren’t preserving the damage; you’re highlighting the repair.
To repair and preserve is among the holiest of tasks, a victory struck against Entropy. How should they not appreciate it?
That was over here, I believe:
The point being, I believe, that they produce entropy as a byproduct of their operation, but in a universe like this, what doesn’t? What matters is what else they are, and produce.