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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 4001911" data-attributes="member: 38324">I'll avoid the real-world comparisons and concentrate on the most salient point. The demons and devils are, philosophically, utterly at odds. They are not buddies and they do not agree. They disagree with one another, in fact, as much and as strongly as they disagree with their counterparts on the planes of Good. You could compare them to warring religious sects, if you like, though that does a disservice to exactly how little common ground they actually have. They are not fighting over a minor theological dispute or the succession of a millennia-dead ruler. They are fighting because they are avatars of Law and Chaos, two forces whose war created the multiverse and helps sustain it. Unfortunately, they represent the worst and lowest impulses of each force, and so their conflict is grittier, more violent, and less honorable than the stately debates and elegant dances which take place on their higher planes.Their war is hotter than it is with the forces of Good because good people are not manifestations of bigotry and hatred. Good people are fairly nice, and they do not respond to attacks as appallingly as evil people do. Wars of retribution against Good do not escalate as nastily as they do when your enemy is genocide incarnate.</blockquote>