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[Dragonlance/Faerun] Anyone here met any Cataclysm/Wall of the Faithless defenders?
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<blockquote data-quote="toucanbuzz" data-source="post: 8114447" data-attributes="member: 19270"><p><strong>Cataclysm</strong></p><p></p><p>This is a complicated one dating to the rules of the universe when the cosmos was created. In briefest form, Balance between Good, Neutrality, and Evil is key to existence, but it's not the day-to-day moral "good" we think of when we help a neighbor fix a broken fence. Good gods gave life and animation to spirits, to experience existence, Neutrality gave them free will, and Evil sought to enslave spirits with things like need and hunger. However, Evil serves a purpose. Its conflicts can serve to make life stronger, more durable. Ultimately, if the pendulum swings too far in either direction, existence is in peril (and evil doesn't care a whole lot about balance, get what you can as you can).</p><p></p><p>So, in the days before the Cataclysm, in the name of "good" Istar was making the world a more peaceful place. War was eliminated through strength, but rather than kill ogres and other troublesome races, including elves, it hedged them into territories where they'd gradually just die out and fade away. The peaceful race - humans- would make things better when they were gone. Murder was being eliminated with mind reading of citizens. Slavery was justified in lieu of simply incarcerating criminals (have them do something useful). The more "good" that the world experienced, in this extreme form, the less actual Free Will creatures had. Absent conflict, they would become weak.</p><p></p><p>And, the Gods of Good believed enough in this potential imbalance that once weakened in this way, life would be extremely susceptible to Evil without conflict to harden it, and the pendulum might swing so hard to the other side that existence would fall out of balance.</p><p></p><p>So, the solution, pushed by the Dark Queen Takhisis herself and backed by all the Gods to save existence, was to drop the fiery mountain, to reboot life, and to force it back into hardship and conflict. It was cruel and horrific, on a day-to-day morality scale. But on a cosmic scale, it was a necessity. When Evil did come knocking and the Dark Queen resumed her wars, those who had been tempered by these times were strong enough to resist and overcome. She had calculated that this would weaken the world, that it would be ripe for the taking. But, the very Evil that sought to prey upon the world through its needs also hardened it.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, it's complicated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toucanbuzz, post: 8114447, member: 19270"] [B]Cataclysm[/B] This is a complicated one dating to the rules of the universe when the cosmos was created. In briefest form, Balance between Good, Neutrality, and Evil is key to existence, but it's not the day-to-day moral "good" we think of when we help a neighbor fix a broken fence. Good gods gave life and animation to spirits, to experience existence, Neutrality gave them free will, and Evil sought to enslave spirits with things like need and hunger. However, Evil serves a purpose. Its conflicts can serve to make life stronger, more durable. Ultimately, if the pendulum swings too far in either direction, existence is in peril (and evil doesn't care a whole lot about balance, get what you can as you can). So, in the days before the Cataclysm, in the name of "good" Istar was making the world a more peaceful place. War was eliminated through strength, but rather than kill ogres and other troublesome races, including elves, it hedged them into territories where they'd gradually just die out and fade away. The peaceful race - humans- would make things better when they were gone. Murder was being eliminated with mind reading of citizens. Slavery was justified in lieu of simply incarcerating criminals (have them do something useful). The more "good" that the world experienced, in this extreme form, the less actual Free Will creatures had. Absent conflict, they would become weak. And, the Gods of Good believed enough in this potential imbalance that once weakened in this way, life would be extremely susceptible to Evil without conflict to harden it, and the pendulum might swing so hard to the other side that existence would fall out of balance. So, the solution, pushed by the Dark Queen Takhisis herself and backed by all the Gods to save existence, was to drop the fiery mountain, to reboot life, and to force it back into hardship and conflict. It was cruel and horrific, on a day-to-day morality scale. But on a cosmic scale, it was a necessity. When Evil did come knocking and the Dark Queen resumed her wars, those who had been tempered by these times were strong enough to resist and overcome. She had calculated that this would weaken the world, that it would be ripe for the taking. But, the very Evil that sought to prey upon the world through its needs also hardened it. So yeah, it's complicated. [/QUOTE]
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