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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tia Nadiezja" data-source="post: 6784127" data-attributes="member: 6778763">I'm in a bad mood. When I'm in a bad mood, I think about elements of setting design that annoy me. Today in annoying setting design elements: Kelemvor.I'm not against neutral death deities. Hades is a neutral death deity and he's awesome. The Raven Queen is a neutral death deity, and she's pretty much the best. Neutral death deities can be great!... If they're not terrible.Like Kelemvor.Kelemvor's Wall is the worst idea in the immense bucket of brilliance and absurdity that is the Forgotten Realms. Whose idea was it to write every nonreligious character in the setting who doesn't achieve immortality's end as "just another brick in the wall, where demons try to rip you out of it so things get worse?" That's... both horrific and painfully boring.Then there's the man himself.Have you read the Avatar books? I have. They're not very good. They're not the worst fantasy I've ever read, but they're not very good. Midnight was all right. Cyric was charmingly terrible. Kelemvor?Wet. Blanket.Seriously, every time he opened his mouth, every ounce of energy drained out of the scene. I can only surmise that he earned the Death portfolio because he killed drama - and my ability to feel joy while reading those books. Or to reread them, ever, which is why I'm writing this bit on decades-old memories.Why does anyone worship someone so uninteresting?How does even Ao, mountain of blah he is, put up with the guy?Kelemvor is the worst.</blockquote>

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