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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 6762447" data-attributes="member: 6801060">But the gods of good would be condemning themselves to oblivion if they did so. If the Faithless weren't punished, why would people, other than say clerics and paladins, actually worship the gods? This was one of the points in Crucible - with the Faithless assured of an afterlife based on their actions in life, fewer and fewer people were worshiping the gods and they were beginning to wane in power. This would result in fewer worshipers, which would result in less powerful deities, which, in a vicious circle, would result in even fewer worshipers, and so on. In a finite amount of time, the very gods which destroyed the Wall would be destroyed themselves. And it isn't just a selfish desire to continue to exist and a fear of oblivion which informs the actions of the gods of good here - if the very gods of good cease to exist, and their former worshipers rendered powerless, who then will work for good in the Realms? Could the setting even exist in such an atheist situation - just the deaths of a few gods have caused massive havoc; what would the deaths of all of them result in?The Wall isn't just a necessary evil, it's a necessary evil that the gods, even the good deities, need in order to continue to exist.</blockquote>