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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8691869" data-attributes="member: 8461">The way I see it, there's a lot of presumptions that are implied with the use of true names, the relationships between gods and fiends, the level of accessibility that evil Outsiders have to the Material Plane, etc. The problem is that very little of it is expressly stated, and sometimes it's contradicted by what is stated.For instance, the reason why the gods of goodness don't just use arch-fiends' frue names to bind them all is often because of an implied state of detente between the various powers of the Outer Planes. Overt hostile action between a god and an arch-fiend (which is, in another unspoken implication, presumed to have god-like power of its own, even if only within its own realm) would lead to a &quot;war in the heavens&quot; scenario that nobody really wants, since it would destabilize their own power base and spill over into greater conflicts throughout the planes.Things like that are often part of an unspoken background regarding how things work, though I'll note that earlier editions often went into more background on this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8691869, member: 8461"] The way I see it, there's a lot of presumptions that are implied with the use of true names, the relationships between gods and fiends, the level of accessibility that evil Outsiders have to the Material Plane, etc. The problem is that very little of it is expressly stated, and sometimes it's contradicted by what [i]is[/i] stated. For instance, the reason why the gods of goodness don't just use arch-fiends' frue names to bind them all is often because of an implied state of [i]detente[/i] between the various powers of the Outer Planes. Overt hostile action between a god and an arch-fiend (which is, in another unspoken implication, presumed to have god-like power of its own, even if only within its own realm) would lead to a "war in the heavens" scenario that nobody really wants, since it would destabilize their own power base and spill over into greater conflicts throughout the planes. Things like that are often part of an unspoken background regarding how things work, though I'll note that earlier editions often went into more background on this. [/QUOTE]

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