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The Great Wheel: Positioning Gehenna and Tarterus/Carceri
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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6280764" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>You know the kind of person who <em>always</em> believes that they're the victim? The lady who pins all of her life's problems on her parents, or the guy who blames "the gubmint" for his rage and poverty, or the person who cries "religious persecution!" at the drop of a hat? </p><p></p><p>If the planes in D&D are belief made real, wouldn't it make sense that the D&D versions of these souls would *actually* have something out to get them in the afterlife? That all their persecution complexes and martyr cries would be rendered kind of true? The soul wants to be victimized, claims to be victimized, believes that it is victimized. Why wouldn't they be truly victims in death?</p><p></p><p>It might look like an external force, but it's really what they want, how they believe the world works. These people are happy to be victims. Being imprisoned by the multiverse is validating for them -- reality itself is out to get them here. They're speaking truth to power and dismantling the corrupt system and OF COURSE the voices of the planes would array to silence them by putting them in a planar prison! </p><p></p><p>The Anarchist's Faction who have their HQ here give a perspective on this: the believe all order and power is inherently corrupting, so they think that everyone's a victim of Big Something (or Big Everything). Of course they'd find a comfortable home in Carceri, where the plane reinforces that notion. And of course, that home would make them a conspiratorial and suspicious lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6280764, member: 2067"] You know the kind of person who [I]always[/I] believes that they're the victim? The lady who pins all of her life's problems on her parents, or the guy who blames "the gubmint" for his rage and poverty, or the person who cries "religious persecution!" at the drop of a hat? If the planes in D&D are belief made real, wouldn't it make sense that the D&D versions of these souls would *actually* have something out to get them in the afterlife? That all their persecution complexes and martyr cries would be rendered kind of true? The soul wants to be victimized, claims to be victimized, believes that it is victimized. Why wouldn't they be truly victims in death? It might look like an external force, but it's really what they want, how they believe the world works. These people are happy to be victims. Being imprisoned by the multiverse is validating for them -- reality itself is out to get them here. They're speaking truth to power and dismantling the corrupt system and OF COURSE the voices of the planes would array to silence them by putting them in a planar prison! The Anarchist's Faction who have their HQ here give a perspective on this: the believe all order and power is inherently corrupting, so they think that everyone's a victim of Big Something (or Big Everything). Of course they'd find a comfortable home in Carceri, where the plane reinforces that notion. And of course, that home would make them a conspiratorial and suspicious lot. [/QUOTE]
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