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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3126954" data-attributes="member: 11697">With the ancient Baatorians, they've already had some Lovecraftian inspiration in their descriptions, what with the tentacles and all, and the bizarre and alien cities locked beneath the ice of Cania, etc. And then the Baernaloths have half slipped down the spiral of madness themselves, at least those that remain within the known multiverse.Now for creatures beyond the fiends... while we don't necessarily know much about any primordial creatures of the other planes, I can easily see a being of primal law driving a person insane. Pure numbers and complex logic driving a person to seclusion and obsession, etc. With primal pure Good, NG, a person might be driven to the heights of asceticism, total abandonment of the self... something along the lines of what the horror writer Jack Ketchum described as "...some terrible knowledge, some awful peace." in his story The Box. True peace, total bliss, a spark of that might drive you to despair once removed from it, or the knowledge that it even exists and waits for you even, it might destroy a person's life as rapidly or more so than the worse of the ravages of the Gray Waste. Mortals are not made to experience such.With LG, well anyone seeking to enter Chronias gets incinerated if they're not themselves worthy of that level of Law and Good combined.For CG, I've got less ideas, though I've toyed with the idea of a primal CG race that created the Eladrins and then created the Infinite Staircase as both an expression of themselves, and also an escape from the ramifications of their own well meaning sins (which obliterated Pelion/Mithardir). But that gets a bit more away from canonical stuff and my own extrapolations into upper planar prehistory (which'll work its way into my storyhour eventually).</blockquote>

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