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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6183168" data-attributes="member: 58197">Here's my take on the subject.Negative energy is not itself evil, but in the proper scheme of things it brings death and dissolution and stillness. To use negative energy as an animating force is to violate the proper order of the universe. It's gnawing a tiny hole in the laws that uphold reality. That's why the patron of the undead is a demon lord, not a god or devil; undeath is one of the ways in which the powers of Chaos and Evil gain a foothold in the mortal plane. Every undead created strengthens those powers and extends their reach. Hence why animate dead gets the Evil tag, and why most undead are chaotic evil--as focal points of demonic power, undead are strongly drawn toward demonic behavior. A few prove able to resist that pull. Most don't even try.Deathless represent a fundamental misunderstanding by certain powers of good. Having come to believe in a simplified view of reality where positive energy is good and negative energy is evil, these powers concluded that the way to oppose the undead was to create beings infused only with positive energy. A natural living creature contains both positive and negative energy--positive energy gives it life, negative energy gives it hunger and thirst and sickness and old age. In order to make their "pure" beings, therefore, the creators of the deathless ended up mirroring the process of creating undead.The deathless are just as much a violation of the natural order as undead are, but the gods and angels who create them are taking on themselves the effects of that violation. From a mortal point of view, therefore, deathless are good-aligned and the process of creating them is beneficial. But the gods whom the deathless serve are slowly being twisted toward evil. In the end, the deathless will be a worse plague on the earth than undead ever were.</blockquote>

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