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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6791498" data-attributes="member: 2067">It's right there in the fact that it makes good people suffer. Things that make good people suffer are evil and morally repugnant in heroic fantasy, in FR, and in D&D. Why is Tiamat evil and morally repugnant? Because she makes good people suffer. Why is she set up as the antagonist? She intends to make good people suffer. Why is the Dragon Cult plot to bring her back something the PC's fight against? Because it will make good people suffer. Putting any soul in the wall is entirely consistent with the descriptions of Evil in the 5e PHB, and at odds with the descriptions of Good (and iffy, at best, with the descriptions of Neutral). That doesn't make it good. To go with the Star Wars analogy, it is a fate that is expected and accepted that if you defy the Empire you will be punished and likely killed, but that doesn't make Vader Neutral when he blows up Alderaan. Most people in the Galaxy would say that's to be expected and accepted. Leia does not accept it. Her mission to resist the Empire makes her a hero. It's none of those things. It's just accepted. That's not the same thing. FR is not a setting of deeply flawed heroes. Its most popular characters are Marty Stus who fight bad guys and win. You don't HAVE to accept bad things in the Realms, any more than Drizz'zt had to accept the Spider Queen. That has floated up from time to time. The last time it floated up, I pointed out that it was kind of nonsense. And regardless, it doesn't stop the PC's from doing it better. Why not let the Wall fall and the Heroes Win? What is there to like about it?</blockquote>

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