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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9857577" data-attributes="member: 18">To be fair to Mordenkainen, which I don't really wanna be but w/e, the concept of The Balance in an FR perspective relates specifically to the gods, and is backed/enforced/desired by AO, the super-god, it doesn't relate to like, day-to-day activities/horrors normally. But it would mean, at the very least, stuff like making sure you, mega-powerful wizard, stood aside when the armies of the Zhentarim marched on Waterdeep or wherever (because that's essentially gods fighting through man, and even though it would presumably involve various atrocities/war crimes), and that you probably had to intervene if someone was about to kill/destroy an evil god or similar. Oddly, no-one, not even AO, ever has stopped an evil god getting killed/depowered, that I'm aware of, but that's just more failing to walk the walk.Like the Wall of the Faithless, but even more so, it's a concept that appears a ton in the mid-1990s, when certain writers with some odd ideas (albeit also with some cool and detailed conceptions of FR faiths) were in charge of writing the FR religion stuff, and then like basically vanishes.</blockquote>