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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 2614186" data-attributes="member: 1288">Wow. You've just summed up something that's bothered me for years, but I was never able to put into words. Thank you.Planescape--which, I must point out again, is a setting I love for the most part--made the cardinal error of humanizing the fiends.Fiends aren't human. They don't have human motivations. They aren't creatures who just had a bad upbringing, or are trying to survive in a hideous world. They do not, do not, do not &quot;hang out&quot; in bars with mortals, even in a place like Sigil.Fiends are primal evil. They know nothing else, they are nothing else. They are terrifying, and all the more so because they cannot be anything other than what they are. They cooperate with mortals only when they have something to gain from the deal. They have no friends. Even their love, when they can feel it at all, is ultimately perverse and self-serving.Anything less than absolute, nigh-incomprehensible evil isn't worthy of the title &quot;fiend.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 2614186, member: 1288"] Wow. You've just summed up something that's bothered me for years, but I was never able to put into words. Thank you. Planescape--which, I must point out again, is a setting I love for the most part--made the cardinal error of humanizing the fiends. Fiends aren't human. They don't have human motivations. They aren't creatures who just had a bad upbringing, or are trying to survive in a hideous world. They do not, do not, do not "hang out" in bars with mortals, even in a place like Sigil. Fiends are primal evil. They know nothing else, they are nothing else. They are terrifying, and all the more so because they [i]cannot[/i] be anything other than what they are. They cooperate with mortals only when they have something to gain from the deal. They have no friends. Even their love, when they can feel it at all, is ultimately perverse and self-serving. Anything less than absolute, nigh-incomprehensible evil isn't worthy of the title "fiend." [/QUOTE]

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