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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3452366" data-attributes="member: 11697">One problem though: the Far Realms aren't Evil.They might be antithetical to life as we know it, but so is the Elemental Plane of Fire to an ice paraelemental, but that doesn't make it Evil.The Far Realm is just different, dangerously different, based on utterly divergent concepts and laws of reality than the Great Wheel. Evil might not even be a basic concept of alignment in its conception of reality. It's dangerous to being from the Great Wheel, and the feeling is mutual because exposure to our reality seems to be harmful, painful, and maddening to beings from the Far Realm. In fact this mutual harm actually motivates one major denizen of the Far Realms to seek to prevent contact between the two seperate realities.The Far Realms isn't Evil. It isn't about Evil. Fiends are Evil. The Far Realms may be based on Lovecraft's work, but it's not Evil taken up to 11 in the Spinal Tap way. You'll find the heart of Evil in the Gray Waste, not in the paradoxical wonderland of the Far Realm.Edit: the Far Realms aren't about Chaos either. It operates by its own set of laws, just ones that are different from ours, might not make sense to us, and ones based on concepts alien to our minds. Glip'xoth the Uvuaduum will take the same perspective on the laws and concepts of the Great Wheel multiverse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 3452366, member: 11697"] One problem though: the Far Realms aren't Evil. They might be antithetical to life as we know it, but so is the Elemental Plane of Fire to an ice paraelemental, but that doesn't make it Evil. The Far Realm is just different, dangerously different, based on utterly divergent concepts and laws of reality than the Great Wheel. Evil might not even be a basic concept of alignment in its conception of reality. It's dangerous to being from the Great Wheel, and the feeling is mutual because exposure to our reality seems to be harmful, painful, and maddening to beings from the Far Realm. In fact this mutual harm actually motivates one major denizen of the Far Realms to seek to prevent contact between the two seperate realities. The Far Realms isn't Evil. It isn't about Evil. Fiends are Evil. The Far Realms may be based on Lovecraft's work, but it's not Evil taken up to 11 in the Spinal Tap way. You'll find the heart of Evil in the Gray Waste, not in the paradoxical wonderland of the Far Realm. Edit: the Far Realms aren't about Chaos either. It operates by its own set of laws, just ones that are different from ours, might not make sense to us, and ones based on concepts alien to our minds. Glip'xoth the Uvuaduum will take the same perspective on the laws and concepts of the Great Wheel multiverse. [/QUOTE]

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