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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormtalon" data-source="post: 3983694" data-attributes="member: 5541">I don't really see the Far Realm as being focused on destruction of everything, per se.  The schtick of the place is that the motivations of its residents are simply incomprehensible to mortal minds.  Thought, dimension, space, time -- they all function so differently from what people are used to that it appears chaotic to an extreme, although there may be some sort of underlying order and design to the place.  It's just that the PCs (and the rest of the world they live in) simply can't begin to fathom what it might be.  It might even be that the two are ultimately totally incompatible and when the two attempt to mix/overlap, neither escapes "uncorrupted."  So, where the Far Realm impinges on the "real world," plant and animal life changes in weird and unpredictable ways, but within the Far Realm itself, a small canker of "normalness" might be created.  Beings that originated in the Far Realm (aboleths, illithids, etc) upon moving into the normal world find themselves, perhaps unknowingly, altered such that they become at least somewhat comprehensible to the natives, and conversely would be viewed as corrupt and impure by their brethren "back home."The Abyss, meanwhile is understandable.  It is a roiling tempest of hatred for all existence.  The motives of those who reside there are likewise easy to comprehend: they simply exist to kill, destroy and unmake everything within their reach.  Some may have long-reaching plans that encompass years and many seemingly unconnected events, but in the end they all aim towards the same goal: destruction of as much as they can encompass within their grasp and reach.They're quite distinct concepts -- and each has its own place in the cosmology.</blockquote>

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