Well, if arranged royal weddings stop wars then one or two more and there's no war against the surface.
Well, Hoffmann is the son of the mole-king. I'm not sure if the adopted part makes a difference and I'm very sure Collette would object to the idea, but at least they belong to the same species.
"If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")