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<blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2513792" data-attributes="member: 17296">Law and Chaos.One thing I think is important when considering this axis is that Law is an aspect of Chaos. Chaos, in it's infinite complexity created Law. There are many different *types* of Law, many different rules-sets. This is a difficult concept to encompas if you're OF Law, because each Law likes to think that it's the only one. Law is stability. Law without chaos leads to stagnation and eventual death. Chaos is creativity and change. Chaos without Law leads to dissolution and death.Chaos routinely spawns different law-sets within itself (IE people think up new laws), and some of those live, some of those die. Law has a survival instinct. The Chaos that spawned it will eventually tear it apart, so in order to live the Law has to fight off Chaos. The stronger ones live on, the weaker ones are quickly torn apart and made into something different.Therefore I see the Law and Chaos axis as really about variable amounts of Chaos. The very Lawful have only one bit of (usually older) chaos that has formed into a rigid structure, Law. Law is needed to survive, it's stability is comforting. It's strength supports life. Chaotics hold a LOT of chaos. They change often, or as the whim strikes them. Even they, however, must cling to Lawful support structures, for without those there is nothing to define them, nothing but dissolution. Every living thing is a function of Law. But in order for it to grow, to change, to excell it needs to incorporate some of the fires of chaos. Indeed, simple reproduction is a tiny bit of chaos introduced (and almost always accomodated for) in Law.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ARandomGod, post: 2513792, member: 17296"] Law and Chaos. One thing I think is important when considering this axis is that Law is an aspect of Chaos. Chaos, in it's infinite complexity created Law. There are many different *types* of Law, many different rules-sets. This is a difficult concept to encompas if you're OF Law, because each Law likes to think that it's the only one. Law is stability. Law without chaos leads to stagnation and eventual death. Chaos is creativity and change. Chaos without Law leads to dissolution and death. Chaos routinely spawns different law-sets within itself (IE people think up new laws), and some of those live, some of those die. Law has a survival instinct. The Chaos that spawned it will eventually tear it apart, so in order to live the Law has to fight off Chaos. The stronger ones live on, the weaker ones are quickly torn apart and made into something different. Therefore I see the Law and Chaos axis as really about variable amounts of Chaos. The very Lawful have only one bit of (usually older) chaos that has formed into a rigid structure, Law. Law is needed to survive, it's stability is comforting. It's strength supports life. Chaotics hold a LOT of chaos. They change often, or as the whim strikes them. Even they, however, must cling to Lawful support structures, for without those there is nothing to define them, nothing but dissolution. Every living thing is a function of Law. But in order for it to grow, to change, to excell it needs to incorporate some of the fires of chaos. Indeed, simple reproduction is a tiny bit of chaos introduced (and almost always accomodated for) in Law. [/QUOTE]

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