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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6129444" data-attributes="member: 11697">In 2e there was a very nice quote from 'Faces of Evil' that summed up the 'loths as desiring a perfect multiverse. Perfection being a multiverse devoid of mercy; one in which everyone and everything suffered. You aren't important, you don't matter, we don't hate you, but you will suffer nonetheless. That sort of uncaring malice was what they had below the surface as a racial goal.In the leadup to 4e, before they had anything set in stone, I'd suggested some roles for the 'loths in the 4e multiverse. They didn't obviously go with any of them, and IMO they didn't give the 'loths in 4e any defined role and purpose initially, which was a shame. I might have linked the 'loths in some capacity with the 4e shadowfell. But in the following I put forward the idea of the 'loths from the Great Wheel being the source of the Shard of Evil that corrupted the 4e Elemental Chaos, playing off of their previous association with disease.Additionally, since the 4e 'loths were rather a case of also-rans, bereft of their role and history from 2e/3e when shoehorned into the 4e cosmos, that in and of itself could be played up. What if the 'loths were aware of their previous history in the Great Wheel? What if they knew they had been inserted into the World Axis cosmology but then utterly and completely abandoned by their original makers? They'd gone from the chosen children of abstract uncaring evil to being abandoned and adrift in a universe where they had no place and no grand purpose. They're evil and they're bitter, horribly so. They're going to need to take that out on someone, anyone. There's lots of plot hooks to play with there. And what if you still have a core of 'loths who remain faithful to their faithless, uncaring makers that abandoned them, still hoping to be useful, still wanting to believe in that grand design? Again they could be rather useful there as plot seeds.They have no home, they have no obvious place in the universe, they're evil, bitter, and wanting so hard to believe in makers that seemingly betrayed and abandoned them. They're rudderless and malign. Free agents with the blackest of hearts. This isn't something that will ever end well for the new multiverse they've been inserted into like blankets seeded with plague or smallpox blisters. And in fact, that might have been the point of why their makers the baern ever did what they did by seemingly casting them adrift.</blockquote>

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