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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3424036" data-attributes="member: 15538">I think, as the world came into being from the primordial chaos, the chaotic forces simply had the upper hand. The birth of Law as probably the result of chance, and the instant it happened, existence and non-existence became defined, and with both Law and Chaos, entropy and time took their current forms. Eventually, more Lawful forces, or at least less Chaotic ones, beat back the ancient things. Lest the conflict consume all of creation and restore it to the void, balance came into being. That's just kind of a general, high concept reading I take from reading over the Fiendish codexes and throwing in a little Moorcock.As for good and evil, I think they always existed; the D&amp;D universe is one of moral realism. As soon as there was suffering, there was good and evil. The forces of supernatural good, evil, and neutrality, however, first martialed under the ancient serpents, who became respectively Asmodeus, an entity masquerading as the deity of the coatls, and something else I am less familiar with, all Lawful. But while Lawful, their relationship to Good and Evil is distinct.Thus, you have a kind of Christian-influenced divine order of good and evil overlayed onto a Moorcockian primordial Order-Chaos scenario.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 3424036, member: 15538"] I think, as the world came into being from the primordial chaos, the chaotic forces simply had the upper hand. The birth of Law as probably the result of chance, and the instant it happened, existence and non-existence became defined, and with both Law and Chaos, entropy and time took their current forms. Eventually, more Lawful forces, or at least less Chaotic ones, beat back the ancient things. Lest the conflict consume all of creation and restore it to the void, balance came into being. That's just kind of a general, high concept reading I take from reading over the Fiendish codexes and throwing in a little Moorcock. As for good and evil, I think they always existed; the D&D universe is one of moral realism. As soon as there was suffering, there was good and evil. The forces of supernatural good, evil, and neutrality, however, first martialed under the ancient serpents, who became respectively Asmodeus, an entity masquerading as the deity of the coatls, and something else I am less familiar with, all Lawful. But while Lawful, their relationship to Good and Evil is distinct. Thus, you have a kind of Christian-influenced divine order of good and evil overlayed onto a Moorcockian primordial Order-Chaos scenario. [/QUOTE]

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