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And our final figure of the three...
Shaaan the Serpent Queen (pronounced “SHAY-ann”), a scaly-skinned but beautiful mage of the Tashalar who was once the absolute ruler of a fanatical snake cult in the Tashalar, and a frequent foe of Elminster. She was slain in...
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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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..1487 DR by Malchor Harpell and Manshoon, but had a long and villainous career, prolonging her life by magical means and attempting to understand the true nature of arcane magic (the Weave) and “how all the worlds worked.” She scorned the many “self-absorbed, ...
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..grubbing fools” that power in the Realms was “wasted upon,” for their base, shallow, selfish pursuits. She wanted power for power’s sake, but wasn’t certain she was worthy of it; she believed that only those of “superior understanding” should be allowed to...
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..wield power, because only they would do so with anything more than “see-only-end-of-own-nose selfishness.” She didn’t consider herself worthy for most of her life, but also saw herself as far, far more worthy than most kings, archmages, cabal leaders, ...
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..archdevils, and anyone else she met. To Shaaan, there was a being of Transcendent Good, dwelling in Realmspace (or reaching into it with influence) who hid Herself from mortals, and contested ever with three or more “Crawling Evils,” devouring, tentacled, ...
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..destructive beings who delighted in destruction. She saw “true evil” as ignorant of consequences and uncaring, so no one “of intellect” could be truly evil because they were always mindful of consequences, even if they disdained them or any but their own...
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..moral code. Shaaan largedly believed that “might makes right,” but saw the only valuable life pursuit of truly intelligent beings (such as herself) to be forging such a personal moral code—and that the very...
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..existence of a Transcendant Good being would be the anchor or reference point for such a code (even if the resulting code repudiated Her).
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