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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2515721" data-attributes="member: 2067">There is this thing in the D&D universe...this basic component of reality....a particle, a wavelength, a molecule...that is attracted to certain actions and mindsets. There are four of these. The mixture of these four basic forces make up alignment.Compare it to gravity. Every body produces gravity. But in order for it to be noticed, you need truly great mass. Similarly, every body acquires "moral and ethical mass." The type of moral and ethical mass you acquire depends upon the actions and mindset you have.Some tap into this natural force of the universe and use it to power things like magic, or magic items, or connections to deities. Some do pretty much nothing with it. Time passes, then ya die, and this moral and ethical mass seeks it's level, like water flowing to an ocean. It bears your unique soul with it. This is how your soul reaches its designated outer plane.Once there, your soul becomes a petitioner. The moral and ethical mass is controlled, dammed, and diverted into particular forms. While you have no memory, you have form. This form is created *entirely* of these molecules, these forces, these atoms that are attracted to particular mindsets. It is not elemental material. It is this "higher substance," these "mental elementals." You become composed of this essence, you become a mental elemental.From being a petitioner, you can shape, change, and acquire different kinds of these forces and atoms. This changes your physical form. Because this matter is associated with mental mindsets, your physical form is also very closely associated with this mental mindset. You are made from your environment, and your environment is a particular particle that is attracted to a particular mindset.If you own conciousness, your unique imprint, fails to hold this kind of matter together, it disperses. It takes your spirit with it. You become this matter, in effect, seeking out the mindsets you once believed yourself. This matter is not the elemental stuff of physical bodies, though enough of it is capable of forceful physical representation. It is more ephemeral, and so it leaves no body. Thinking about other mindsets is as alien to you as silicon life to carbon life. In fact, it can be hostile -- Evil dissolves Good, Law dissolves Chaos. If you are a Good Outsider, and you think an evil thought, it is not just an evil thought - you dissolve some of your own essence as you think this, because what you are made of cannot exist near an evil thought. Evolution does the rest -- those made of Good who think of Evil eventually cease to exist. It's like eating acid. You don't live if you do it often.This is my Unified Alignment Force Theory. Teh l33t p0wah of SCIENCE!</blockquote>

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