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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6119506" data-attributes="member: 4937">The capacity of the Slaad for both good and evil is one of the more interesting things about them for me.  You can have them be both villains and heroes.But this would make the Slaad Lords simply brutal tyrants.   In my conception, the Slaad Lords are killing off other Slaad not because they are threats to their power (per se), but conversely because the Slaad are not a threat to their power but to their individual identity.  The Slaad Lords - Ygorl particularly - have declared 'Stop' for the good of the universe.  The Slaad Lords know that if the Slaad aren't stopped, they'll destroy everything (the Slaad Lords included) and this is not a desirable result.   So, for the sake of themselves (and incidently everyone else), the Slaad are 'Stopped'.   This means that the Slaad frog orthodoxy is utlimately an expression of, "Harm no one; Do what you please."   The Slaad have 'Stopped' themselves so as to avoid being evil.The problem is the opposite of what you describe.  It's the strongest and most cunning mutations that have to be stopped.  The problem with mindless Chaos is if that it is allowed free reign, it ultimately makes everything undifferentiated.   But undifferentiated is ultimately uniform.  The Slaad are trying to avoid evolving into something which would destroy their identity.   The real threat to the Slaad is the evolution of The Slaad.  Utlimately, the Slaad are in terror of merging back into Primal Chaos - the Primal Slaad of All Colors and None, the one that devours all.   The 'Stop Cult' - the Death Slaad - is designed to insure that no Slaad is allowed to evolve into IT.  The greatest secret of the Slaad race is that they were once all one - the first being that ever exist - the great god Chaos himself.   At the moment of creation, the Primal God Chaos awoke but his members - his cells if you would - acting on their impulse went into rebellion.   Chaos was shattered from the inside, his blood spilling out and becoming the Red Slaad, his greater organs becoming the Slaad Lords.   The Slaad Lords never work together for fear of merging back into the whole.  They, together with the Executioners and the Death Slaad, hunt the White Slaad and the Black Slaad to prevent the reunification of the race into the primal god Chaos which would destroy everything.</blockquote>

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