"Goodest of the good" and why Hell is a bad place

[klofft]

arscott, that's cool. I like that. Thanks!

 

[Cheiromancer]

klofft, have you read Sepulchrave's Tales of Wyre? It's a novel-length story-hour whose cosmology is based on a henotheistic Sun god called Oronthon, who is opposed by a Miltonic adversary. The adversary's name was stripped from him, and so he's called either the Nameless Fiend or the Adversary. You are familiar, of course, with what Adversary is a translation of; and the ultimate unintelligibility of Evil makes namelessness a neat fit. And then there's Demogorgon...

I think you would enjoy reading the story hour. It starts off a little rough, but rapidly becomes very polished and philosophically interesting.

 

[Umbran]

As to the orthogonal nature of Law/Chaos and Good/Evil, I don't think there would be alignments of LG, CG, CE, and LE if these alignments were truly orthogonal. The 7 Heavens is not an afterlife of both Law and Good rather it is Lawful Good.

True orthogonality is required for the system as written. "Orthogonal" in the literal sense means "at right angles to". When applied to somethng you might graph on a pair of axes, it means "independant from each other" - this is the case in which you can mix freely, and have all four of those extreme combinations be somehow "equal".