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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6408256" data-attributes="member: 2067">Indeed! In fact, in PS, it's pretty impossible to have a "correct" answer.Center of All. No one -- not the gods, not the planewalkers, not the mortals whose beliefs make up the multiverse as it is today -- can see the whole story. There is no external entity to sit in judgement of the multiverse. There is no objective perspective, no belief that is "more correct." Celestia exists because people believe it does, and souls go there because that's what people believe happens to souls that act a particular way, and now people can go to that place and visit it. But if people were to stop believing in Celestia, and believe in, I dunno, an afterlife consisting entirely of a dead grey fog for everyone regardless of their behavior in life, then that would become the truth of the planes, and people could go and visit THAT place. PS takes as its starting point that people believe in this diversity of afterlives, and so this diversity of afterlives exists, but their existence is dependent on the beliefs of others. Change the belief, you change the things that exist. Something's existence on the planes is contingent on people believing in its existence. Including Law, Chaos, Good, and Evil (and the various places that are said to represent those ideas). And evil, of course, has its own perspective. Evil in PS can be thought of as power (control, social status, wealth, dominance, influence), achievement (personal success, competence, ambition, recognition), and hedonism (pleasure, gratification, personal enjoyment) being of core importance to an individual. People in the Real World hold those beliefs. Hell, some of your co-workers and friends and family members probably hold those beliefs! At various times, maybe even YOU hold those beliefs! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Those are things that intelligent people can pursue and work for. Evil has much to offer. Yes, the afterlife is harsh and unforgiving, but the Abyss isn't a place of objective punishment for being wrong about your moral choices, exactly, it's just a place where every creature, and the very landscape itself, is pursuing goals identical to your own. It is made up of people who think exactly like you, who believe the same thing you do: that there is no greater action than to delight yourself first and foremost, and no other lives or opinions or perspectives matter aside from your own.</blockquote>

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