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cayden cailean in balder's gate 3
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"What are they like?"

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"Hades is a deeply depressing place. All colour and positive emotion is doomed to fade, in the same way a book would be doomed to fall if dropped.

Carceri is strings of matter spread through a void, and is constantly fought over by demons and devils. 

Gehenna is an infinite volcanic mountain, filled with barghests."

 

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"I guess I don't know that any of those aren't Abaddon? Carceri maybe sounds similar. Heaven, Lawful Good, mostly a bunch of farms? Elysium, Chaotic Good, mostly a bunch of wilderness? Nirvana, Neutral Good, a place of healing that welcomes everyone no matter what they've done?"

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"We have an Elysium, but it is neutral good, though it sounds much like your Nirvana. Our realm of Chaotic good, Arvandor, is also mostly wilderness. Someone probably farms on Mount Celestia, but the mountain comes up more, you understand."

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Cayden visibly relaxes when he hears "much like your Nirvana."

"Heaven's a mountain, people just-- mostly think about the farms. It's like your life at home but with no drought or disease or storms or monsters, and all the adventurers are Good..."

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"It sounds like they're both nice places."

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"Axis, Lawful Neutral, is a big city. The Maelstrom, Chaotic Neutral, is just all the leftovers of the stuff there was before Creation."

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"Mechanus and Limbo, though Mechanus is a city of clockwork."

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"And True Neutral people go to the Boneyard, which is traditionally depicted as a giant graveyard but that can't be right. Lots of babies and little kids in the Boneyard, because they haven't done anything to get an alignment... They say people in Heaven adopt the babies and raise them but I don't know if that's real."

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"There are a few gods that live in the Outlands-- the plane of true neutrality. --I don't know what happens to babies."

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"Maybe Ilmater takes them in. It would be the sort of thing he'd do." She sounds doubtful.

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"That seems like the kind of thing someone ought to Commune with a god about? Like half of all deaths, maybe more, are kids too little to have alignments?"

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"It's an advantage of using gods claiming followers over alignment. I'm sure plenty would take in the children of their followers."

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"A cleric of Kelemvor would likely know. He's a-- serious improvement, over previous deities in his position."

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"You replaced Pharasma??????"

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"We never had her?"

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"We replaced," he starts counting on his fingers "Jergal and Myrrkul and Cyric-- who is the God of lies when he isn't the God of death-- and Kelemvor is a major improvement."

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"...Pharasma made the universe and sorts every sentient in it into one of nine alignments and protects the universe from the Dark Tapestry that lurks outside her Creation and is weirdly into tentacles?"

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"That... sounds more like Ao."

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"I... guess maybe around here she delegates??"

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"Maybe she made Ao who made this part of the universe and some attendant deities." Who he will not name, so he doesn't get stabbed in his sleep by a nearby cleric.

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"It would make sense if she were more hands-on in Golarion, as you can tell from the name our primary purpose is containing one of those Dark Tapestry fuckers who wants to devour the universe."

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"I guess that makes a sort of sense." He probably shouldn't feel slighted by not being in the universe that's holding back a Dark Tapestry horror, but he does a bit. He would be so good at holding back a Dark Tapestry horror!

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"It makes me feel better that Nirvana exists here too. It feels like things can't go too badly as long as Nirvana still exists."

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"I think that's same as saying things can't go to badly as long as good still exists. --Not that I disagree, of course."

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