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> Peter Larsen
> > I will agree with you here. I also expect that there are chaotic acts
> that
> > are not intrinsically evil, although they may be ultimately ungood for
> the
> > universe (assuming the aim of all Chaos is to return the universe to
> > chaos). This is what would allow the Lunars to incorporate chaos into
> their
> > lives -- chaos can't be all cannibalism aand vampires and rape and
> > dissolving into goo, can it?
>
> AIUI chaos does not have an aim. It just is and does. Intelligent chaos
> beings will have aims
> but they are usually personal and often short term. A vampire wants to
> live forever, a broo
> wants to fertilise as many beings as possible. They will happily fight
> each other to achieve
> their personal objectives.
>
Yes, but it seems to me that part of what makes Chaos Chaos is that it eats away at the Universe, trying to return it to the formless space it was before Creation. So, while much Chaos has no conscious aim, and many conscious aims are not, as you point out, directly related to the dissolution of the Universe, all Chaos acts in that manner eventually. And maybe it's even noble; saving the Cosmos from the pain and suffering of Being.
>
> I don't think most Lunars incorporate chaos into their lives. Many would
> be just as quick as
> any Orlanthi to destroy it. What the Red Goddess shows is that there is a
> way to control
> chaos and use it to achieve your objectives. The risk is that it takes
> control of you and turns
> you into a worse threat to society than the enemy you were fighting.
>
> Well, you are right that most inhabitants of the Lunar Empire don't. I
think ost actual committed Lunars at least accept the theory that Chaos is
not automatically evil and can serve positive ends (there is some of this
in Cults of Terror, as I recall).
>
> > Uz eat everything; it's their nature. Anyway, and Uz eating an Uz would
> be
> > cannibalism. A human eating a human would be cannibalism. An Uz eating a
> > human is either breakfast, lunch, or inner (as I am sure the Uz say).
> > Morokanth don't eat humans; they eat herd people, who are, by definition,
> > animals. As I understand it, other Praxians also eat herd people when its
> > convenient, which must be disturbing for outsiders. The Gor cannibalistic
> > rites are the ones that need to be explained, in my book.
>
> Maran Gor is the trickiest example of non-chaotic cannibalism to explain.
> I'd suggest it is not
> chaotic because it is a part of their societies structure. In specific and
> controlled
> circumstances it is right to kill and eat other humans. An ogre breaks the
> rules of the society
> they live in damaging the agreements made between members. That's what
> makes it
> chaotic. Similarly Gagarthi will steal from their kin which to Orlanthi is
> taboo as a cause of
> kinstrife.
>
Gargath isn't Chaos though, is he? I thought he was just evil....
Peter Larsen
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