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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3287562" data-attributes="member: 11697">Belief = Power - The very landscape of the outer planes is a manifestation of the abstract alignments, and the fabric of those planes is warped and molded by belief. Gods are formed out of nothing by the combined worship and faith of their believers. The clashes of the Factions in Sigil is just a microcosm for the overall clash of ideologies out on the planes at large.The Blood War - it's big enough to stand as a point of its own outside of the belief = power idea. The Blood War is the ugly side of the Law/Chaos conflict, the sinkhole of Evil's masochism unto itself, and something that draws in the attention of every one of the outer planes. Everyone has a stake in the outcome, and no one can ignore it. Even in Elysium the influence of the Blood War raises its ugly head, and nothing, absolutely nothing, is unsullied in its wake.White and Black in an ocean of grays... - it's a complex world where absolutes of Good and Evil exist, but at the same time the world is awash in a morass of moral ambiguity. Good and Evil are not monolithic, Heaven and Hell are entirely relative terms, there is no objective punishment for wickedness or reward for goodness, but still the pure alignments exist in this same universe of moral relativism.Things Don't Always Make Sense - logic oftentimes fails on the planes. Planes can be infinite or finite, direction isn't a solid thing, space is influenced by thought and intent as much as by a map, etc. Contradictions exist even if you can't fathom them, such as the Infinite Spire and Sigil place atop it, or the Nothingness that can be seen outside of the plane of Sigil's ring from the inside.Belief versus Substance - while the Outer Planes are usually the centerpiece of Planescape, the inner planes are there as well, and they're their own unique environment. They tend to be concerned with the ideas of elements and opposition, and alignment and belief is at best a secondary concern.</blockquote>

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