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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7353588" data-attributes="member: 6803337"><p>Acererak is feeding souls to the atropal, aiming for its god-hood, because he has discovered a fundamental fact about D&D in-game universe metaphysics:</p><p>If you set out to make yourself into a god using an untested process (because you want to be the first one), something horribly bad happens at the climactic moment and you fail utterly; so utterly that your name becomes legend due to the scope and scale of your failure. (This contrasts in the starkest of terms with the scope and scale of your prior vision.)</p><p></p><p>Acererak is going to use the atropal as a test subject, let all the adventurers and other not-really-random interference take IT out, and learn from the process / experience. He has something planned - and not discussed in the module - that will give him a way to manipulate the new god, or destroy it and reap all the benefits thereof himself</p><p>He will make himself a god later, and do so quietly. </p><p></p><p>Acererak picked Chult as a lair because it is legendarily difficult to survive, and he wants to benefit from the most rigorous "survival of the fittest" he can create, in case he should need to push himself into a body for a while (due to unforeseen unpleasant circumstances interrupting his primary plans). I doubt Acererak has ever read <em>The Dosadi Experiment</em>, but his motive could be similar to the conspirator-creators of Dosadi.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 7353588, member: 6803337"] Acererak is feeding souls to the atropal, aiming for its god-hood, because he has discovered a fundamental fact about D&D in-game universe metaphysics: If you set out to make yourself into a god using an untested process (because you want to be the first one), something horribly bad happens at the climactic moment and you fail utterly; so utterly that your name becomes legend due to the scope and scale of your failure. (This contrasts in the starkest of terms with the scope and scale of your prior vision.) Acererak is going to use the atropal as a test subject, let all the adventurers and other not-really-random interference take IT out, and learn from the process / experience. He has something planned - and not discussed in the module - that will give him a way to manipulate the new god, or destroy it and reap all the benefits thereof himself He will make himself a god later, and do so quietly. Acererak picked Chult as a lair because it is legendarily difficult to survive, and he wants to benefit from the most rigorous "survival of the fittest" he can create, in case he should need to push himself into a body for a while (due to unforeseen unpleasant circumstances interrupting his primary plans). I doubt Acererak has ever read [I]The Dosadi Experiment[/I], but his motive could be similar to the conspirator-creators of Dosadi. [/QUOTE]
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