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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8286537" data-attributes="member: 27957">And that's why Mordenkainen and his militant Neutrality made sense as a positive figure. A true victory for either Law or Chaos would be detrimental to the mortal races because as abstract cosmic forces they had little concern for us. Mortals thrived in an environment that was a balance between the two, so the best course was to play both sides against each other. Like a small nation dancing between two superpowers, trying not to get pulled into a proxy war or get absorbed by one rising to full predominance.Only now, Mordenkainen makes no sense because Law and Chaos aren't organized factions and it's Good vs Evil as the primary cosmic struggle. So we get him "trying to keep a healthy balance between Good and Evil", which is an insane proposition that benefits the mortal races not at all. But he's been codified as trying to keep a balance between the warring cosmic factions, so even though those factions have changed he's still trying, despite it no longer making any sense.</blockquote>