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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 5079809" data-attributes="member: 18363">Not exactly ...There is Sanct and there is Taint. Sanct is the element of purest, truest existence - in a sense the 'glue' that holds the laws of nature together, working together as they should. Taint is the opposite, sometimes compared to non-existence, sometimes compared to ultimate disorder. In truth it is more of an anti-existence, something that so warps the nature of existence that it comes undone. Within existence itself Taint can never utterly destroy existence; rather, it is most destructive at the edges of existence - like the sea slowly eroding a coastline or the dark at the edge of light.Deities are beings of Sanct, whilst fiends are creatures of Taint. Kindness or Cruelty makes no difference to either, but Sanct and Taint are 2 of many elements that make of the world. From a certain point of view, fiends are elementals of taint while deities are elementals of sanct, although it is not quite as simple as that. For one, although deities might be kind or cruel, fiends by definition are ever seeking to corrupt or destroy and have no particular interest in humanoids - unlike deities, which in enlightened self-interest realized that worship from humanoids notably increased their power and so actively seek to maintain that worship (generally via kindness [worship and I'll look after you] or cruelty [worship or face my wrath]).</blockquote>