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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TiQuinn" data-source="post: 9528401" data-attributes="member: 4871">Part of the thing with Neutrality that got me thinking about law vs chaos and good vs evil in a D&D multiverse is that viewing these alignments as mortals might be different than viewing them cosmically. The “evil” of a random bandit, unscrupulous merchant, or even a cultist is very different from the BIG EVIL that is responsible for the Blood War, or wanting to unmake Creation, or creates evil artifacts of immense power. It’s a question of scale and that there are entities that are truly evil (as if evil was an actual element - like Prime Evil from Time Bandits, concentrated evil and you don’t want to touch that stuff) and truly good which is equally alien and inscrutable to mortals because it is so far removed from day to day concepts of what it means to be “good”. It’s almost a Mythos level of evil vs good where these forces really don’t translate to our notions of good and evil but their actions still reverberate in the Prime Material.So into this you get muscular neutrality (MN). MN doesn’t really mean caring that Furyondy is growing too powerful vis a vis The Great Kingdom. It’s concerned about actual demons and gods from other dimensions swaying the events on the prime material in either direction and both directions are I hostile to normal life as mortals know it.</blockquote>