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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8818324" data-attributes="member: 23751">Take it up with the High God."The High God created the twenty-one lesser gods to be its servants in the plan for Krynn. When the mortals were created, Ionthas tried to take control of the world and its fate, beginning the All-Saints War as the gods wrestled for the fate of the mortals. One camp, led by Takhisis, held that mortals should be the slaves of the gods and tried to exert their influence to control them. The opposing camp, led by Paladine, said they should do as the High God instructed and guide the mortals, and realize that the mortals were gifted with the potential to grow and change and eventually become better and brighter than the gods themselves, and this faction wrestled with the evil gods to stop them from gaining control of the mortals. The gods of neutrality took neither side, and did nothing more than tend their responsible areas. Eventually, the High God intervened and declared thus: It is the High God, and they were all as nothing compared to it. It was pleased with Paladine and his fellows, for they adhered to the spirit as well as the letter of the High God's instructions. It was displeased with Gilean and his camp, for they adhered only to the letter, but it would permit them their seeming neutrality, even though all they did would be to the High God's purpose. And it was mightily displeased with the gods of Evil, who sought to rise above themselves. However, it would permit them their efforts, for they made a balance with the other two, a balance that anchored the world--and the balanced could be changed, but the change must come from within, from the mortals themselves and not be forced upon it by the gods."So the Kingpriest forcing imbalance via godly power, and the other clerics of the good gods gaining dominance for good, was a violation of the High God's instructions. It had to be balanced, because it did not come from the mortals.</blockquote>

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