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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7869104" data-attributes="member: 20323">[USER=6670153]@gyor[/USER] Slaads are the ultimate solipsists, at least that was my interpretation of them. Each slaad could only be sure its own mind existed. Ultimate chaos is ultimate individuality. Individuality taken to its extreme becomes an obsession with one's own needs, desires, emotions, and thoughts.However, it's not the hedonism of a CE demon.A slaad's Chaotic Neutrality is a belief that its mind is the only mind that's real and knowable to me. Everything else is unknowable mystery and/or illusion. An altruistic slaad might pity "illusions" believing in their own reality.Inevitably, this belief leads to madness which afflicts all older slaadi.So, from the slaadi perspective, Chaos Phage converting other creatures into slaadi is about making the unknown external world into a more known internal world. It's about dispelling illusion and grounding it in (the slaad's) reality.EDIT: I just remembered that I had an old storyline where I explored the afterlife of the githzerai (LN people living in CN Limbo). Essentially each dead githzerai had an individualized pocket of order within the chaos, with mental projections of people and loved ones. To the githzerai people these "shaped afterlife bubbles" were sacred secrets. However, green slaad would invade these "personal heavens/hells" and (as shapeshifters) take on the form of various loved ones in an attempt to break the githzerai's will – and thus dissolve the imposed order back into the chaos soup of Limbo. This helped me explain the whole shapeshifting aspect of slaadi that never quite made sense to me before. I just realized now how well this old idea synchs up with my solipsist take on slaadi.</blockquote>

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