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<blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8048507" data-attributes="member: 79428"><p>My personal take is that all the "Lawful" gods and extraplanar entities are still in the process of hammering out what exactly the ideal form of "Law" is. Ironically, this results in Chaos.</p><p></p><p>Chaos is basically a tree of infinite possibilities and the followers of Law want to prune it and remove possibilities. However, they don't all agree what needs to be pruned and what needs to be kept. The ultimate goal is that eventually a single, coherent standard of what Law is will be accepted by all beings.</p><p></p><p>The modrons believe that Primus would be the ultimate arbiter of Law, unhindered by Good and Evil (well, those modrons high enough in the caste system to be capable of thought and belief). A reality in which they have constructed the final, true incarnation of Law would probably be indistinguishable from their home plane of Mechanus. It would be a reality where there are no other possibilities than the ones pre-ordained by Primus. Stability, coherence, conformity, and most of all predictability would be the Law, with the former concepts of "free will" and "chance" having been purged.</p><p></p><p>Not even the Hells is that restrictive. The devils want the multiverse under their Law to be dystopian and ambition driven, not a clockwork machine that runs for its own sake with no one capable of contemplating it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]124201[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The Chaotic Neutral slaadi are fun goofballs in comparison to these things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hexmage-EN, post: 8048507, member: 79428"] My personal take is that all the "Lawful" gods and extraplanar entities are still in the process of hammering out what exactly the ideal form of "Law" is. Ironically, this results in Chaos. Chaos is basically a tree of infinite possibilities and the followers of Law want to prune it and remove possibilities. However, they don't all agree what needs to be pruned and what needs to be kept. The ultimate goal is that eventually a single, coherent standard of what Law is will be accepted by all beings. The modrons believe that Primus would be the ultimate arbiter of Law, unhindered by Good and Evil (well, those modrons high enough in the caste system to be capable of thought and belief). A reality in which they have constructed the final, true incarnation of Law would probably be indistinguishable from their home plane of Mechanus. It would be a reality where there are no other possibilities than the ones pre-ordained by Primus. Stability, coherence, conformity, and most of all predictability would be the Law, with the former concepts of "free will" and "chance" having been purged. Not even the Hells is that restrictive. The devils want the multiverse under their Law to be dystopian and ambition driven, not a clockwork machine that runs for its own sake with no one capable of contemplating it. [ATTACH type="full" alt="4e_modrons_-_Craig_J._Spearing.jpg"]124201[/ATTACH] The Chaotic Neutral slaadi are fun goofballs in comparison to these things. [/QUOTE]
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