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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bawylie" data-source="post: 8012770" data-attributes="member: 6776133">In terms of game elements, I’m not sure it matters too much. This pile of numbers has this flavor text associated with it. Use this or change it. Whatever. When we get to the setting/lore level, I think we need to address some fundamental order of the universe before we begin answering the deeper questions of agency and morality and free will. Speaking about my game setting only, celestial creatures do not have free will. The Law comes from They Who Dwell Above And is given to order the chaotic energies of creation into form and substance. The celestial creatures created by the deities are not mortal and exist to carry out the Law. Meanwhile, mortals do have free will, being composed of the chaotic energies of creation, ordered by the Law, and animated by a spirit of life. Their impermanence and mutability mean they can choose and change. And things that are eternal or immortal cannot change, and so cannot choose to behave in a way that is contrary to their existence. A fire elemental must burn, for example, and can’t just chill out for a bit.</blockquote>