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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8019440" data-attributes="member: 53980">I disagree that a deity who is unaligned must be an impersonal force. While that's certainly one way to go with it, my preference is for gods that aren't human in outlook.For example, a god of fire encompasses the totality of fire. They are both the presence of the hearth that warms and cooks, as well as the raging inferno that burns a home to the ground, leaving its inhabitants to freeze and starve.Taking a similar approach to Umberlee, she might encompass both the storm that sinks ships, and also the lost treasures washed onto shore for others to find.That doesn't mean that they're impersonal forces, although they are arguably somewhat alien to a human perspective.  That's simply because they're not necessarily about human morality. To the fire god, fire is good. They may have priests dedicated to the hearth, and those priests may be enemies of another sect who believes in cleansing civilization through the purity of fire. To the fire deity both are good, though from a human perspective one sect is good and the other is evil. Though humans see a contradiction in these sects, the fire god does not. They're simply emphasizing different aspects of the deity. The deity is both good and evil (from a narrow perspective), and neither (from a broader perspective).</blockquote>