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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 2917130" data-attributes="member: 22784">If I understand you correctly, the Far Realm grew out of the standard cosmology, and presumably fits something like a tyre around the wheel?That's an interesting idea.I don't really have the vocabulary to explain what I mean properly, so bear with me.I'm going to assume the Overgod "created" the wheel and the gods.In the beginning, there was the Overgod and a random mass of musical notes which was currently only producing static. The Overgod extracted the "best" notes and used his Overgod powers to structure them into a symphony - the standard cosmology.The symphony is surrounded by static, but it doesn't matter because only the Overgod can even perceive the static.Eventually, however, the border between the static and the music gets a bit blurred. This is because energy sometimes leaks from the symphony into the static - possibly this is the original energy used by the Overgod in the beginning, or maybe a side effect of the magic being used by gods and mortals on a daily basis.This energy forms some of the static into patterns. However, none of these patterns can match the majesty of the Overgod's original symphony, because the "best" notes were all incorporated into the symphony in the beginning, leaving the dregs behind.These patterns become the insane discord known as the Far Realms. It is impossible to move from the symphony to the static - but it is possible (although often very difficult) to move from the symphony to the discord.The deeper into the discord a creature lives, the more alien it is to creatures of the symphony.The creatures of the discord are insane variations on the inhabitants of the symphony, and some approach the gods in power. There is no alignment in the discord, but if a discord creature somehow arrives in the symphony then it is "shoehorned" into the most appropriate alignment (usually chaotic evil).To the creatures of the discord, the symphony is a strange and frightening place which seems every bit as "blasphemous" (to use a common Lovecraft word) as its home in the discord would seem to creatures of the symphony. The more benign entities are simply indifferent; the rest embark on an orgy of destruction in an attempt to eradicate the "wrongness".Cthulhu isn't more powerful than Nerull. However Cthulhu's total lack of understanding of, let alone regard for the, great wheel,  and his apparent inability to appreciate that his actions have consequences (whether for himself or for others) makes him unbelievably dangerous to interact with.Also, the concept of gods working together as a pantheon, and imposing checks and balances on each other, does not exist in the discord.</blockquote>

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