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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redthistle" data-source="post: 6416580" data-attributes="member: 6778305">Another thought in re alignment: nature itself is chaotic without being evil, and not just the weather. Neutrality, like a pendulum, encompasses swings from one set of circumstances to another, and something that appears chaotic may simply be operating under controlling factors unknown to the observer.As an example, once upon a time, most of life on earth was anaerobic. Oxygen was poisonous to many of those karyotic and eukaryotic single-cell life-forms. With the evolution of photosynthesis in single-cell organisms, oxygen, as a waste product, began slowly building up. When oxygen levels surpassed a certain threshold, those anaerobic susceptible to oxygen poisoning withdrew to niches in the environment where oxygen levels remained low.There was a massive die-off of many single-celled species, but it helped open up ways for multicellular organisms to evolve.The point is that destroying the world around you doesn't even require sentience. One idea: perhaps these cultists have been infected with a type of bacteria or virus that hijacks part of the brain that has altered their behavior, like that disease that causes rats to stop running away from the smell of cat urine and no longer view cats as a threat.This would allow your "evil" druids to be as terribly destructive as in your dream, seemingly chaotic, but really just suffering from a parasitic hijacking.</blockquote>

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