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<blockquote data-quote="Grover Cleaveland" data-source="post: 2682892" data-attributes="member: 34932">That article (in Dragon Annual #2, by Ed Bonny) was generally pretty good, but I thought that particular argument was clumsy. I actually hate the idea of quasits and imps being made from neutral evil larvae - better by far to make quasits from chaotic evil larvae and imps from lawful evil larvae. To say that neutral evil spirits make better imps and quasits is to diminish the importance of law and chaos in the cosmology and to distort the very shape of the Great Ring into something other than circular.Why shouldn't imps be made from lawful evil spirits and quasits from the evil and chaotic? It's much more appropriate. Anything else is just an awkward rationalization.That's actually the best argument for demons and devils starting out as larvae, and probably the reason Colin McComb went that route in Faces of Evil - if imps and quasits are made from larvae, they ought to be made from larvae coming from the planes they're associated with instead of being foreigners, manifestations of an entirely different alignment.This does diminish the role of night hags somewhat, but I don't see that as a bad thing. They don't need to have a monopoly on the production of imps and quasits to be important in their own way. They supply better quality larvae than most other beings, since they produce them by stealing the souls of high-level characters. Their dominion over bad dreams is also an underlooked attribute of theirs - they should buy and trade things taken from the Dreaming lands.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grover Cleaveland, post: 2682892, member: 34932"] That article (in Dragon Annual #2, by Ed Bonny) was generally pretty good, but I thought that particular argument was clumsy. I actually hate the idea of quasits and imps being made from neutral evil larvae - better by far to make quasits from chaotic evil larvae and imps from lawful evil larvae. To say that neutral evil spirits make better imps and quasits is to diminish the importance of law and chaos in the cosmology and to distort the very shape of the Great Ring into something other than circular. Why shouldn't imps be made from lawful evil spirits and quasits from the evil and chaotic? It's much more appropriate. Anything else is just an awkward rationalization. That's actually the best argument for demons and devils starting out as larvae, and probably the reason Colin McComb went that route in [i]Faces of Evil[/i] - if imps and quasits are made from larvae, they ought to be made from larvae coming from the planes they're associated with instead of being foreigners, manifestations of an entirely different alignment. This does diminish the role of night hags somewhat, but I don't see that as a bad thing. They don't need to have a monopoly on the production of imps and quasits to be important in their own way. They supply better quality larvae than most other beings, since they produce them by stealing the souls of high-level characters. Their dominion over bad dreams is also an underlooked attribute of theirs - they should buy and trade things taken from the Dreaming lands. [/QUOTE]

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