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<blockquote data-quote="ZombieRoboNinja" data-source="post: 3987174" data-attributes="member: 54843">IMO, the Far Realms aren't really &quot;chaotic&quot; so much as they are &quot;inscrutable.&quot; The Abyss is the ultimate locus of brutality, rage, and hatred, entropy and destruction. When you make a deal with a demon, you know exactly what he's after in the long run. He wants to tear the world apart.The Far Realms is... strange. It's a world whose laws, whose very logic is utterly different from our own, such that any extended visit there invites madness in all but the most trained minds.I'm not sure if anyone would get the reference, but the Far Realms makes me think of the spider from China Mieville's Perdido Street Station even more than I think of Lovecraft. Far Realms denizens are in fact sane and often very intelligent, but their world and their understanding of the universe is so utterly removed from our own that we can't begin to hope to treat with them. All we can know is that Far Realms creatures are incredibly powerful and utterly unpredictable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ZombieRoboNinja, post: 3987174, member: 54843"] IMO, the Far Realms aren't really "chaotic" so much as they are "inscrutable." The Abyss is the ultimate locus of brutality, rage, and hatred, entropy and destruction. When you make a deal with a demon, you know exactly what he's after in the long run. He wants to tear the world apart. The Far Realms is... strange. It's a world whose laws, whose very logic is utterly different from our own, such that any extended visit there invites madness in all but the most trained minds. I'm not sure if anyone would get the reference, but the Far Realms makes me think of the spider from China Mieville's Perdido Street Station even more than I think of Lovecraft. Far Realms denizens are in fact sane and often very intelligent, but their world and their understanding of the universe is so utterly removed from our own that we can't begin to hope to treat with them. All we can know is that Far Realms creatures are incredibly powerful and utterly unpredictable. [/QUOTE]

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