Moving Leylines

[Aeolius]

Just a thought, here...

If we take an established belief, thanks to the Wizard of Oz: Witches of the West/East are Evil and Witches of the North/South are Good, then apply a bit of cartography, i.e. Latitude runs North/South and Longitude runs East/West, therefore latitudinal ley lines are Good while longitudinal ley lines are Evil.

That seems like a good basis for applying ley line magic to D&D’s alignment system.

 

[grodog]

If we take an established belief, thanks to the Wizard of Oz: Witches of the West/East are Evil and Witches of the North/South are Good, then apply a bit of cartography, i.e. Latitude runs North/South and Longitude runs East/West, therefore latitudinal ley lines are Good while longitudinal ley lines are Evil.

That seems like a good basis for applying ley line magic to D&D’s alignment system.

Interesting idea, Aeolius: perhaps also, good and evil nations are situationed physically where they are due to their proximity to good/evil sources of ley energy or nexuses/nodes.

A Greyhawk example: Iuz is located south of the Howling Hills because evil ley energies flow out from there and into the realm of the Hierarchs. Perhaps the lines even originate at Blackmoor.

Similarly, perhaps a change or realignment of ley lines could be the cause (or effect, of course) of a national alignment shift: the Great Kingdom turns evil after a malign meteor falls into its ley network, twisting it from good to evil (or, the good energy corrupts over time into evil energy).

 

[S'mon]

I always use ley lines = lines of electromagnetomagical force IMCs, so they're nearly all roughly 'longitudinal'; outside specific anomalies they flow from pole to pole.