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<blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 3453538" data-attributes="member: 49613"><p>Suggestion:</p><p>Treat the Far Realm not as "evil" but as <em>corrosive</em>. It's like an Anti-Reality, but not in a Bizzaro World way. Instead, the 'stuff' it is made of intrinsically and automatically eats away at Reality, and especially the foundations of alignment.</p><p></p><p>Alignment is based on two things - matter and soul. Law and Chaos are essentially expressions of matter: is the matter organized and unified or is it disorganized and riotous? A sentient creature just applies its bias toward Law or Chaos to its actions. Good and Evil, on the other hand, are purely expressions of soul: do you obey your inclination to the perfect, or do you rebel against the perfect for personal gain?</p><p></p><p>The Anti-Reality of the Far Realm eats away at both of these things. It stills and arrests chaotic processes and turns lawful processes into a mad explosion of disunity. It erodes the basis for rational decision-making in a way that evil does not... evil uses reason to reject perfection. The Far Realm causes all rational processes to disintegrate and become unintelligible; insane and thus beyond good and evil.</p><p></p><p>The Far Realm is a Meta-Entropy. It does not merely drain the energy from existence, leaving it perfectly Lawful/Chaotic (that's regular Entropy). Rather, the Far Realm <em>erases</em> existence. Once you contact it, however, you are no longer able to perceive what you are now missing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Korgoth, post: 3453538, member: 49613"] Suggestion: Treat the Far Realm not as "evil" but as [i]corrosive[/i]. It's like an Anti-Reality, but not in a Bizzaro World way. Instead, the 'stuff' it is made of intrinsically and automatically eats away at Reality, and especially the foundations of alignment. Alignment is based on two things - matter and soul. Law and Chaos are essentially expressions of matter: is the matter organized and unified or is it disorganized and riotous? A sentient creature just applies its bias toward Law or Chaos to its actions. Good and Evil, on the other hand, are purely expressions of soul: do you obey your inclination to the perfect, or do you rebel against the perfect for personal gain? The Anti-Reality of the Far Realm eats away at both of these things. It stills and arrests chaotic processes and turns lawful processes into a mad explosion of disunity. It erodes the basis for rational decision-making in a way that evil does not... evil uses reason to reject perfection. The Far Realm causes all rational processes to disintegrate and become unintelligible; insane and thus beyond good and evil. The Far Realm is a Meta-Entropy. It does not merely drain the energy from existence, leaving it perfectly Lawful/Chaotic (that's regular Entropy). Rather, the Far Realm [i]erases[/i] existence. Once you contact it, however, you are no longer able to perceive what you are now missing. [/QUOTE]
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