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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fnork de sporg" data-source="post: 1378721" data-attributes="member: 4713">I always had a personal theory for the origins of the Lady. IMC she was the on true Overgod of all creation. If you could somehow defeat her then you would become the supreme overgod. This cycle of overgods being born from the ashes of the previous overgod has continued for all time, for longer than time has existed.In a previous incarnation the Ovegod was fickle and vain, eventually becoming monstrously cruel and decadent.Sigil was his crown and all of creation lived squished beneath his boots. This was a time before morality, when right and wrong were merely concepts that lived in the minds of foolish mortals.  But these concepts proved great motivators as the overgod was layed low buyt a fiendishly clever mortal obsessed with the idea of ethics. This overgod recreated the universe several times, searching for a true paradise devoid of all evil, but could not succeed in his task. He himself was not pure, he could not resist the lure of his ultimate power to attempt to fix things. In his mad quest he had destroyed all he had ever cared about, his ever love and memory warped in to souless things devoid of choice. Those who were not robbed of their souls and true minds lived in torment, driven mad by a world that would properly define it self, or crushed beneath the full wight of his concentration. And every time he came up with a world that came near to his desires he could not resist the urge to meddle, and in the end he would always curropt or break it or destroy it.Re realised that the only way the universe could ever know peace was if it lived without the interference of a mad overgod. But creation could exist without an overgod to stabilize it. And anyone with the wits and powers to usurp him would fall in to the same traps and cycles as he did. And then he came upon his brilliant idea. An overgod that did not want to be an overgod. For whom being an overgod is an unpleasant experience, for whom using the pwoer of an overgod would cause unnimaginable agony and pain. An overgod possesed of no great plans, maintaning a universal arrangment that they themselves have no personal attachment too. And so he devided the world by according to the ideals and ideas of his ethics, and arranged things to cause the such a thing to come in to existence, and thus for him to leave existence. And she is the Lady of Pain. Though she has the powers of ultimate omnipotence she dares not use more than fraction of them. Her mazes and her portals, these are but functions of her seat of power Sigil. Adn the flaying, the supernatural murder, is more a matter of undoing the essential bits that bind their physical form in reality. Her actual omnipotence she never, ever uses. And that was the point.But that's just me.</blockquote>

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