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<blockquote data-quote="Therise" data-source="post: 5731338" data-attributes="member: 6683949">Prior to 4E, this is a lot like how I viewed the Forgotten Realms deity &quot;Shar&quot; (goddess of shadow, secrets, etc).&nbsp; I've played for decades in that setting, but as the DM I generally took the approach that Shar was the &quot;negative energy plane&quot; goddess and that her sister Selune was the &quot;positive energy goddess&quot; - so despite what various cultures on Faerun believed, they respectively represented destruction and creation.&nbsp; There was more to it than this, but that's the general approach that I took.In 4E, though, and perhaps this gets to the crux of the issue for me, they rearranged the cosmology and created these &quot;power sources&quot; which really dramatically change the &quot;reality&quot; of things.&nbsp; I suppose I can still say that what Faerunians believe about the world/planes is still just their best effort at trying to understand things, and they're not completely right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Therise, post: 5731338, member: 6683949"] Prior to 4E, this is a lot like how I viewed the Forgotten Realms deity "Shar" (goddess of shadow, secrets, etc). I've played for decades in that setting, but as the DM I generally took the approach that Shar was the "negative energy plane" goddess and that her sister Selune was the "positive energy goddess" - so despite what various cultures on Faerun believed, they respectively represented destruction and creation. There was more to it than this, but that's the general approach that I took. In 4E, though, and perhaps this gets to the crux of the issue for me, they rearranged the cosmology and created these "power sources" which really dramatically change the "reality" of things. I suppose I can still say that what Faerunians believe about the world/planes is still just their best effort at trying to understand things, and they're not completely right. [/QUOTE]

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