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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7350525" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Yeah, I definitely see what you mean. It’s possible I misinterpreted what he was saying at that point, as I didn’t catch on that he was correcting himself about calling her a guardian, so much as clarifying. I definitely did see the meddler reinterpretation they were trying to push and very much felt “not MY Raven Queen” about it. But in the end I was fine with it because to me it looked like they were presenting it alongside the more traditional take and explicitly saying that she’s viewed differently in different worlds, and her true nature is mysterious. Which to me was a satisfying enough concession. I knew they were going to change her, so to me it was just a relief to hear them come right out and say, “in the world of Nentir Vale, she’s a Goddess and she got her power by killing Nerull.” I don’t really care what they do with what amounts to a different character with the same name in other settings as long as they leave the Nentir Vale version alone, which seems to me to be what they’re doing. Not only that, they’re explicitly saying that she’s different in that setting, instead of trying to pretend it never existed.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, they do compare her to a Goddess. I got the impression that she is comparable to a minor god in terms of power and influence but might be a separate category of thing - like how Asmodeus isn’t a god outside of Nentir Vale either because he’s a Devil and Devils are just a different type of cosmic entity, but he still has godlike power and the worship of cults. What they did have to rethink for non-Nentir settings though is her status as arbiter of the threshold between life and death, since that job is already filled in other settings. As well as her backstory, since Nerull is still alive in Greyhawk.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Makes sense. For me, as a 4e fan who still uses the 4e cosmology, I never really intended to use any fluff they write for her in other settings, and I’m glad that they’re acknowledging her 4e fluff and leaving it intact within 4e’s cosmology, rather than trying to retcon it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7350525, member: 6779196"] Yeah, I definitely see what you mean. It’s possible I misinterpreted what he was saying at that point, as I didn’t catch on that he was correcting himself about calling her a guardian, so much as clarifying. I definitely did see the meddler reinterpretation they were trying to push and very much felt “not MY Raven Queen” about it. But in the end I was fine with it because to me it looked like they were presenting it alongside the more traditional take and explicitly saying that she’s viewed differently in different worlds, and her true nature is mysterious. Which to me was a satisfying enough concession. I knew they were going to change her, so to me it was just a relief to hear them come right out and say, “in the world of Nentir Vale, she’s a Goddess and she got her power by killing Nerull.” I don’t really care what they do with what amounts to a different character with the same name in other settings as long as they leave the Nentir Vale version alone, which seems to me to be what they’re doing. Not only that, they’re explicitly saying that she’s different in that setting, instead of trying to pretend it never existed. Well, they do compare her to a Goddess. I got the impression that she is comparable to a minor god in terms of power and influence but might be a separate category of thing - like how Asmodeus isn’t a god outside of Nentir Vale either because he’s a Devil and Devils are just a different type of cosmic entity, but he still has godlike power and the worship of cults. What they did have to rethink for non-Nentir settings though is her status as arbiter of the threshold between life and death, since that job is already filled in other settings. As well as her backstory, since Nerull is still alive in Greyhawk. Makes sense. For me, as a 4e fan who still uses the 4e cosmology, I never really intended to use any fluff they write for her in other settings, and I’m glad that they’re acknowledging her 4e fluff and leaving it intact within 4e’s cosmology, rather than trying to retcon it. [/QUOTE]
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