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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knasser" data-source="post: 4656560" data-attributes="member: 65151">Just to add to reasons why we all like the Raven Queen... she's not evil, but she's scary. It's nice to see in D&D that a deity of death doesn't have to be some evil force and that good does not have to equal cuddly and kind.She's a break from the good / bad simplicity that plagues D&D. The merciless goddess who ensures that when it's your time, you don't get to linger, yet at the same time, she's the force that is keeping Orcus (and possibly Vecna) from upsetting the normal balance of the World. I like the shift in D&D from Judeo-Christian-Islamic influenced Life=Good, Death=Bad and eternal reward / eternal damnation sort of spiritual progression and pantheon, to a more pagan, one life sort of set up. Only a few exceptional souls are diverted from the steady exodus from the realm of our experience, the rest are gone.The Raven Queen is deeply interwoven with the change of setting, along with other new features such as the Shadowfell. She's one of the four seasonal deities (representing Winter) so has added integration because of that. She has an interesting and mysterious back-story involving her becoming a goddess and overthrowing Nerull.Plus, you know, goth babe! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />K.</blockquote>

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