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<blockquote data-quote="AmerginLiath" data-source="post: 7480671" data-attributes="member: 777"><p>I’ve always thought of the slaadi as the ultimate anarchs, simply because they live in an environment where nothing — even the selves — has constancy. You can think of an archetypal CG or CE character being effectively “selfish” in terms of rejecting outside authority’s hold over them (either in terms of a CG character seeking freedom from tyranny or a CE character refusing to bow to any other being’s social control); as a true CN being, a slaad does even understand limits and boundaries. Not only does it ignore laws and borders (the concepts are beyond nonsensical for creatures whose entire plane shifts space, composition, and nature on a whim), but it can’t even quite understand the “boundary” between individuals. Because the race implants itself in others to reproduce, changes type by various condition, and if often driven to do either by external forces such as the Spawning Stone, notions such as “self” and “body” aren’t the same as among other creatures (even aberrations like Illithids see a continuity of Self among implanted generations, slaadi are almost the opposite in lacking a sense of Subject Permance about themselves). While other creatures see them as “mad,” it’s perhaps more a case that the slaadi are adapted to stay super-sane by living so completely in the moment of a world where the sort of mind that inhabits a Prime Material Plane couldn’t exist without shattering (see how the Githzerai have to basically bend space and time in their monestaries, as well as practice total mental conditioning, to not snap in Limbo).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AmerginLiath, post: 7480671, member: 777"] I’ve always thought of the slaadi as the ultimate anarchs, simply because they live in an environment where nothing — even the selves — has constancy. You can think of an archetypal CG or CE character being effectively “selfish” in terms of rejecting outside authority’s hold over them (either in terms of a CG character seeking freedom from tyranny or a CE character refusing to bow to any other being’s social control); as a true CN being, a slaad does even understand limits and boundaries. Not only does it ignore laws and borders (the concepts are beyond nonsensical for creatures whose entire plane shifts space, composition, and nature on a whim), but it can’t even quite understand the “boundary” between individuals. Because the race implants itself in others to reproduce, changes type by various condition, and if often driven to do either by external forces such as the Spawning Stone, notions such as “self” and “body” aren’t the same as among other creatures (even aberrations like Illithids see a continuity of Self among implanted generations, slaadi are almost the opposite in lacking a sense of Subject Permance about themselves). While other creatures see them as “mad,” it’s perhaps more a case that the slaadi are adapted to stay super-sane by living so completely in the moment of a world where the sort of mind that inhabits a Prime Material Plane couldn’t exist without shattering (see how the Githzerai have to basically bend space and time in their monestaries, as well as practice total mental conditioning, to not snap in Limbo). [/QUOTE]

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