Order and Chaos

# The Vain Debate

**Written by Ceuran**

In this world, **Arborea**, there are the remains of a Great War. The forces of Order and Chaos clashed, and the land they did so in became known as Convergence. Now many opinions exist about who or what is to blame for the apocalypse that followed, but most generally blame the clash itself. Many reports of sky rocks raining from the sky and gargantuan chaos beasts of cancerous form suggest a conflict of world ending proportions.

My goals is not to trick you into any perspective, but simply to give you as much objective reality as I can so you can decide for yourself. The metaphysicists have organized our multiverse into three main Wills. I have my own criticisms about this model but it is a decent place to begin the discussion. A **Will** is a blind driving force inherent to the nature of Reality. All Things exist in a tension between the Will to Order and the Will to Chaos. These processes carry themselves in natural cycles, energy and matter bind to form something more complex only to break apart into entropy. Some will suggest that one or the other is the inevitable state of things but surely it seems more like that both interplay constantly and will forever.

**Celestia** is seen as the plane of Order. Though they might just consider themselves “Right”. What came through the planar rifts were angels, or celestials, and their broken berthern the Fallen. They have power over the undead, the nature of which is mysterious, as it seems only they can wield this power. An ally of Celestia will tell you they were fighting for whats best for all beings, a lasting peace and structured, perfect society, unified in purpose and ethos. However most records suggest the their laws were so strict and constraining that it robbed people of the entire point to living, growth, freedom, personal expression. Some say Celestia is above us, in our skies, others define it distinctly as another plane. Indeed the line between our world and all others can been seen as both sharp and blurry, as part of the same cosmic thing and entirely different. This paradox is, I think, evidence that planar theory is the edge of what our minds are capable of grasping mechanically.

The **Abyss** is difficult to define, even as far as planes go. It can be seen as the natural result of entropy, perhaps it is the depths that life sinks to as it decays into nothingness. Life much like our world’s exists there, but in savage, insane forms. Chaos beasts ranging from the carnal primal succubus and the werewolf to the cancerous bubbling blobs of flesh called aberrations, all creatures in various stages of entropic decay can be found in the Abyss. Unlike Celestials, Chaos has no ethos or code of law, but rather are thought to be the manifestations of the pervasive, universal Will to Entropy. Humans under the influence of Chaos tend to be anarchistic, impulsive, lusty, and temperamental.

The **Feywild** seems to overlay our own world most closely. It is a place of magical nature and primal elemental power. Earth, water, fire and air fey all exist here in their own wild realms, but are none the less connected. What life is sourced in the Feywild and what is original to Arborea is unknown. Of the planes, this one is most like our own and the Will to Nature seems to be a commonality, that is a sustained ecology of balanced competition to manifest greater and greater creatures. This competitive nature is our strength and weakness as it the source of our great minds and powers, but also is an inherent obstacle to unifying our efforts into some kind of defense against Order and Chaos.