Knight Otu said:
Well, foreshadowing propably wasn't quite the right word - just a pointer that the change was planned earlier, and like a few other bits, was not put into the books until now (like it happened to the ignan template).
Granted, it would be more convincing if the herald went all the way to CE...
And? Hwyrrd's Herald is Neutral Good.
Is your statement based off of something you knew about the basic plan for the Scarred Lands or simply that the Gray Man was Neutral Evil?
Which, for me, doesn't matter too much, anyway. If the explanation for the change isn't provided, it shouldn't have been done, intended from the start or not. Though it would at least shine better on the author if it turned out, way back from near the start, that the change was intentional.
But the Gray Man alone doesn't act as foreshadowing for me.
And for Nightfall: Bullhockey. No, not every setting should have a Chaotic Evil deity of undeath. That only makes them more generic and needlessly so.
Nor does every setting have one. Midnight lacks one (obviously). Ravenlofts current faiths lack one.
Even Eberron lacks one: the two religions associated with death and undeath are Lawful Evil and Neutral Evil.
Now, while I'm completely adverse to giving previous material and canon a big kick - I could rattle off a number of things that I don't believe should have ever seen print that don't have contradictions - but for things that aren't broken, that have no compelling reason to be changed, something like, say, Otossal being Lawful Evil...leave them the heck alone.
), and it getting onto the shipping label from the warehouse, the address got transposed.
. Seeing the word chaos/chaotic in four places where, according to continuity, law/lawful should be, doesn't devalue the book too much, IMHO.
