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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8833332" data-attributes="member: 7635">The Force is not Light and Dark equal. That's not Lucas 's intent. The Force is balanced when it's in the Light. The Dark is sickness, that Light is health; you're not in balance when you're half-sick.So yes, the Force must be balanced is a misunderstanding of what the term means. That's the fans and subsequent creators perpetuating the misunderstanding, Lucas was clear in what it meant.You know why, right? Aoskar was a deity of gateways who was so influential that he could challenge any god in power. His worship had spread so deep into Sigil even the Lady of Psin's servants began worshipping him. Fearing that Aoskar would be able to break one of the three cardinal rules of Sigil due to his power and influence (no deities in Sigil, which would open the city to being a warzone for all different deities trying to claim it) LoP had him destroyed by destroying his followers (in Planescape, belief is power and deities die if no one worships them.)Now, the reverse is also true! Enough people believe in you, you can ascend to the divine. And the Lady doesn't want that either, since she would then be in violation of the"no deities" rule. So she murders anyone who professes to worship her so as to nip any cults in the bud and avoid gaining that sort of power. Her first priority is to keeping Sigil safe from divine powers who would try to claim it. If she becomes a power, she can no longer defend it against powers. Much of her cruel tactics are ultimately in service of defending Sigil from conquest. I don't see that as evil, nor good. It is what is needed to keep Sigil safe from beings with that kind of power.</blockquote>

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