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DF General Discussion / Re: Future of the Fortress
« on: October 02, 2011, 06:00:25 am »Look the only point that in Dwarf Fortress Evil seems to be a force. Curses exist, cursed lands exist (as well as their mechanics to become cursed), and even creatures who are evil exist. Yet good is fanciful and just as destructive and dangerous to all life. There is no benevolence only malevolence.
which is what is essentially the question
Where is the Benevolence?
There's plenty of precedent, though, in myth and fantasy literature for a good that is so pure, so otherworldly, it becomes antithetical to flawed human existence. People are too impure or just too ignorant to deal with that kind of transcendent purity or holiness. Opening that ark might melt your face off or touching that unicorn plunge the world into eternal winter. Or, you know, most of the Old Testament, where the minor sin of being an obnoxious teenager might get you curb stomped by she-bears.