(sub) Dungeon -Deities and Demigods: The Raven Queen

Hurf, you posted yours while I was typing mine. Derp.

Derp? Ninja is the expression to be used here, not some word I don't understand but must clearly be an insult!

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Mhhh, Pasta. No surprises here. The Raven Queen is ambitious, does creepy stuff that leans towards evil for me, and some of the servants statted as monsters are very much 'What the HELL' moment-inducing.

Apparently we're no longer going with the Elf-Eladrin-Drow split way back in the mists of ancient ancient time if the Raven Queen is supposedly sending her minions to help Corellon with fighting against Lolth(Pfft like he needs it). Bizzare. Not fond of it.

I am not sure about the time scales, but the Raven Queen can't be _that_ recent either. "Ancient Mist of Times" though seems more like the war against the Primordials, and I am not sure the Raven Queen was there already. Article did nothing at all to change my mind on the Raven Queen, and as with pretty much everything that comes out on her made me like her and her followers even less. Especially since everything on mortal servants was wrapped up in the 'omg deth!' thing and ignored the fate and winter aspects that might make it more interesting than Gothy McGrimdark.

On the bright side, I'm extremely glad to see a return to the Bane-style format of having the article actually be about the god, as opposed to the utter lameitude that was the Bahamut one. This is the kind of article I want to see.

Now they need to do one on Corellon.

Corellon might be a good choice.

I noticed that the Raven Queen has a lot of potenital for conflicts with other "parties". The adventure books for D&D 4 so far focus on Orcus attempt to usurp the Raven Queen, but Vecna is also one of her enemies. And apparently, there are also some former Nerull priests that want to revive him.

Bahamut has Tiamat as "natural" enemy, Correlon has Lolth. If they want to highlight established divine conflicts, Correlon is a good choice, but if they want to introduce new ones, more on Erathis or Melora might be more interesting.

I'm still getting rather an evil-ish vibe from her, probably due to the whole souls bit. Messing with souls is, to me, Evil, period.

Yes, that is my biggest issue. I find it hard to "justify" that and consider it unaligned. But maybe here is an approach: To make it really evil and not merely unaligned she would have to take joy taking these souls, torture them and use them for more nefarious purposes. Nerull probably did. But she just sees it has her right as the goddess of death that was taken away from her. She sees it as a way to gain power or influence. She might kill souls, but killing souls is the godly equivalent of killing people. She grants utter oblivion, but doesn't inflict suffering. It means the end to all pain or regret the soul of a dead might still feel.

Or maybe the difference is simply - yeah, she might want to do it, but she doesn't. You only become evil if you actually act evil, and she simply does not.

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