"So - where was I -"

"Dath ilan would find a little space to celebrate the greater expression of Goodness in paladins, among all the mourning and wishing it hadn't be so, if Hell came to their universe."

"Because Good and Evil don't cancel out."

"I've been thinking, now and then, about how - being in this universe, Pharasma's Creation - might have changed things compared to what Keltham is so certain is the natural state of a world.  And I think - besides the categories of Good and Evil themselves, maybe being not the way we'd have sorted everything ourselves - we get used to thinking of people having a net total quantitative alignment and not just a, huge bag of events, and even each individual event is one that could have, multiple things we'd celebrate, multiple things we'd mourn."

"You can't, actually, make up for bad things by doing good things.  It can shift your alignment but it can't cancel the reality.  Every bad thing you do, is just there, forever.  And every good thing you do, is also just there, forever.  It doesn't mean you should be sad about the badness over and over and over until the total sadness adds up to infinity.  It's just - the way things are, in dath ilan, that nobody ever judges them at the end of their lives, and they don't have any need to think of people as finally Good or Evil, just, people are the whole collection of everything they once did, and everything they currently are."

"So - where was I -"

"Dath ilan would find a little space to celebrate the greater expression of Goodness in paladins, among all the mourning and wishing it hadn't be so, if Hell came to their universe."

"Because Good and Evil don't cancel out."

"I've been thinking, now and then, about how - being in this universe, Pharasma's Creation - might have changed things compared to what Keltham is so certain is the natural state of a world.  And I think - besides the categories of Good and Evil themselves, maybe being not the way we'd have sorted everything ourselves - we get used to thinking of people having a net total quantitative alignment and not just a, huge bag of events.  Where each individual event is one that could have multiple aspects we'd celebrate, multiple aspects we'd mourn."

"You can't, actually, make up for bad things by doing good things.  It can shift your alignment but it can't cancel the reality.  Every bad thing you do, is just there, forever.  And every good thing you do, is also just there, forever.  It doesn't mean you should be sad about the badness over and over and over until the total sadness adds up to infinity.  It's just - the way things are, in dath ilan, that nobody ever judges them at the end of their lives, and they don't have any need to think of people as finally Good or Evil, just, people are the whole collection of everything they once did, and everything they currently are."

"So - where was I -"

"Dath ilan would find a little space to celebrate the greater expression of Goodness in paladins, among all the mourning and wishing it hadn't been so, if Hell came to their universe."

"Because Good and Evil don't cancel out."

"I've been thinking, now and then, about how - being in this universe, Pharasma's Creation - might have changed things compared to what Keltham is so certain is the natural state of a world.  And I think - besides the categories of Good and Evil themselves, maybe being not the way we'd have sorted everything ourselves - we get used to thinking of people having a net total quantitative alignment and not just a, huge bag of events.  Where each individual event is one that could have multiple aspects we'd celebrate, multiple aspects we'd mourn."

"You can't, actually, make up for bad things by doing good things.  It can shift your alignment but it can't cancel the reality.  Every bad thing you do, is just there, forever.  And every good thing you do, is also just there, forever.  It doesn't mean you should be sad about the badness over and over and over until the total sadness adds up to infinity.  It's just - the way things are, in dath ilan, that nobody ever judges them at the end of their lives, and they don't have any need to think of people as finally Good or Evil, just, people are the whole collection of everything they once did, and everything they currently are."

"So - where was I -"

"Dath ilan would find a little space to celebrate the greater expression of Goodness in paladins, among all the mourning and wishing it hadn't been so, if Hell came to their universe."

"Because Good and Evil don't cancel out."

"I've been thinking, now and then, about how - being in this universe, Pharasma's Creation - might have changed things compared to what Keltham is so certain is the natural state of a world.  And I think - besides the categories of Good and Evil themselves, maybe being not the way we'd have sorted everything ourselves - we get used to thinking of people having a net total quantitative alignment and not just a, huge bag of events.  Where each individual event is one that could have multiple aspects we'd celebrate, multiple aspects we'd mourn."

"You can't, actually, make up for bad things by doing good things.  It can shift your alignment but it can't cancel the reality.  Every bad thing you do, is just there, forever.  And every good thing you do, is also just there, forever.  It doesn't mean you should be sad about the badness over and over and over until the total sadness adds up to infinity.  It's just - the way things are, in dath ilan, that nobody ever judges them at the end of their lives, and they don't have any need to think of people as finally Good or finally Evil, just, people are the whole collection of everything they once did, and everything they currently are."

"So - where was I -"

"Dath ilan would find a little space to celebrate the greater expression of Goodness in paladins, among all the mourning and wishing it hadn't been so, if Hell came to their universe."

"Because Good and Evil don't cancel out."

"I've been thinking, now and then, about how - being in this universe, Pharasma's Creation - might have changed things compared to what Keltham is so certain is the natural state of a world.  And I think - besides the categories of Good and Evil themselves, maybe being not the way we'd have sorted everything ourselves - we get used to thinking of people having a net total quantitative alignment and not just a, huge bag of events.  Where each individual event is one that could have multiple aspects we'd celebrate, multiple aspects we'd mourn."

"You can't, actually, make up for bad things by doing good things.  It can shift your alignment but it can't cancel the reality.  Every bad thing you do, is just there, forever.  And every good thing you do, is also just there, forever.  Which doesn't mean you should be sad about the badness over and over and over until the total sadness adds up to infinity.  It's just - the way things are, in dath ilan, that nobody ever judges them at the end of their lives, and they don't have any need to think of people as finally Good or finally Evil.  Instead people are the whole collection of everything they once did, and everything they currently are."