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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacDuff_1969" data-source="post: 2856052" data-attributes="member: 32353">On the contrary, I applaud this hook!In fact, I will go so far (regardless of its popularity among boardmembers) to say that FC2 should echo this line and leave the current racial factions of CE/NE/LE as the current manifestations of their realms.Said differently, for me, Chaos embodies that metaphorically murky, dangerous time/place from which we all draw our nightmares. Also, chaos is that which preceeds not only civilization, but also the taming of the environment and ultimately the codification of laws (regardless of where you end up on the alignment wheel).Also, by leaving the origin of all 3 species undefined it mitigates the overarching power problem (even if it is only a conceptually inferred problem) given to the yugoloths with their: 1-baern benefactors, 2-power bases on 3 sets of the 5 most evil planes on the great wheel, 3-permanent numbers regardless of attrition, and 4-ability to pull the strings ultimately in the bloodwar (which leaves the other two fiendish races as their patsies).Lastly, I don't see this or any origin myth/story as the bottom line, but for me it is certainly better than one that is just a form of racial propoganda.Said differently, the yugoloths may have the longest recorded histories in the lower planes but only likely due to them never having been the object of the demons/devils long-term ire (forcing it to be torn from their hands by their arch-rivals) or consumed by infighting among their own powers/lords.Long live rumor, innuendo and even racial propoganda ... as long as it allows for gaming diversity and balance among the alignments.</blockquote>

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