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Message: <blockquote data-quote="argo" data-source="post: 1957906" data-attributes="member: 5752">Yeah, the cult you describe sounds evil to me.  Remember, just because they don't think of themselves as evil/have justifications for what they do doesn't mean that they aren't evil.Though I will say that destroying the world does not nessicarily have to be evil.  I recall a short story I read once where a computer programer is hired by an obscure order of monks whose ancient quest is to discover the true name of god by means of trying out every possible permutation of letters.  They are very close now, only a couple hundred years away at the rate they have been going, and they want him to program a computer to help them power their way through the last few million permutations.  Well the programer does what they want and as the program spits out the final, true name of God the world begins to shake and come apart.  The programer, fearfull asks the monks what's going on and they calmly explain to him that the ultimate purpose of mankind's existance has always been to discover the true name of God.  Now that that purpose has been fufilled there is no longer any meaning to existance and so, obviously, it is right and natural that this world ends and something else come to replace it.  The End.I would've called that bunch of monks LN.  They are simply working diligently to uphold the natural order of the universe.  Of course the important thing that makes them not-evil here is that within the logic of the story they were right. The end of the world was the natural order of things.  Most fantasy presumes that the end of the world is against the natural order.  Even if some diety supports armageddon there is usually another diety who opposes him thus reducing the end of the world to a simple power struggle between gods.  It might be interesting some time to run a campaign though where it is made explicitly clear that the apolcaplyse is supposed to happen and the PC's oppose it not because it is right to do so but because they simply don't want to die.  Mortals rebeling against the will of the heavens and the power of destiny.... Later.</blockquote>

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