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Okay, here we go...
My answer is so long that Twitter won't allow sufficient thread length, so I'll split my answer into three, one for each figure...
There are three such prominent mortal voices in Realms history.
Augathra “the Mad,” the Netherese mage, seer..
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And their clergy would have views that their particular philosophical commitments might be the highest or most important goods.
I am fishing if there is some famous plato/Aristotle like figure that argues, especially with planes of good, that there is a higher creator of good
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..and scholar best remembered for her Roll of Years (still used today). She believed in “absolute good” but saw all of the gods as imperfect, not embodying it, in most cases due to their mortal origins (and thus, baked-in flaws). She believed “Good” was a...
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..soulless principle, and “Evil” was entropy/annihilation, with Shar being the closest thing to an unwitting Servant of entropy (the ideal, not the being worshipped as “Entropy”), and she saw an Overgod existing as a Guardian of Order, but thatGood could be...
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..approached by Order but never reached, as Order banished chaos (entropy) but also “chained” Good, and so could not be achieved.
“Ao” to her was but a mortal name for a concept, not a being she could be certain existed and had an interest in the Realms.
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..(Augathra still exists, as a sentience sharing the body of a sharn, and still receives visions of the future, or possible futures, but has few chances these days to share them with anyone.)
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