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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2227898" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>The way I see it, Limbo is mathematical pure chaos, the part of the outer planes representing a total loss of Order. Imagine rolling dice for absolutely everything, everything is totally random, uncaring probability, the rules only exist if they coincidentally happen to, until they don't. A primal soup of chance and disorder and chaos. If you had godlike, remarkable intuition or truly advanced chaos mathematics you might be able to understand it.</p><p></p><p>The Far Realm is something beyond everything else, a place outside the normal cosmology, beyond the Outer Planes and unreachable by normal means. Normal Plane Shifts won't get you there, Miracles asking to go there will get almost any God to deny it, Wishes to go there are ripe for perversion, and only specially created rituals or very powerful spells appealing to unspeakable entities or rending the very fabric of the multiverse asunder could reach it. Even if you do reach it, you'll find that it's utterly, totally incomprehensible. Imagine a world made by the most stark raving mad person you could imagine, utterly and totally insane, and give that person total godlike power over that world, nothing he says or does, and no rule he makes is in any way intuitive or reasonable to anybody else, with strange and illogical features and unpredictable natures, but to him <strong>it makes complete sense.</strong> If you ever happen to figure out what's happening there, your mind has slid so far out of percieving our reality that to everyone else here you are also utterly insane.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2227898, member: 14159"] The way I see it, Limbo is mathematical pure chaos, the part of the outer planes representing a total loss of Order. Imagine rolling dice for absolutely everything, everything is totally random, uncaring probability, the rules only exist if they coincidentally happen to, until they don't. A primal soup of chance and disorder and chaos. If you had godlike, remarkable intuition or truly advanced chaos mathematics you might be able to understand it. The Far Realm is something beyond everything else, a place outside the normal cosmology, beyond the Outer Planes and unreachable by normal means. Normal Plane Shifts won't get you there, Miracles asking to go there will get almost any God to deny it, Wishes to go there are ripe for perversion, and only specially created rituals or very powerful spells appealing to unspeakable entities or rending the very fabric of the multiverse asunder could reach it. Even if you do reach it, you'll find that it's utterly, totally incomprehensible. Imagine a world made by the most stark raving mad person you could imagine, utterly and totally insane, and give that person total godlike power over that world, nothing he says or does, and no rule he makes is in any way intuitive or reasonable to anybody else, with strange and illogical features and unpredictable natures, but to him [b]it makes complete sense.[/b] If you ever happen to figure out what's happening there, your mind has slid so far out of percieving our reality that to everyone else here you are also utterly insane. [/QUOTE]
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