Re: Selune and the Iron Monks

On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Michael Billard wrote:


>
> I understand your concern about why a Chaotic Good deity would  
> sponsor a lawful order. My take is that a goddess whose temperment  
> stresses tolerance and acceptance above all other principals would  
> accept monks of a more lawful bent. There's a line in A Brave New  
> World that says something to the effect of a society stressing  
> tolerance should be able to accomodate savage from the outside  
> world. That's partly what I had in mind. Do others have a similar  
> problem with Selune being the monks' sponsors? I suppose I could  
> create a deity with a similar portfolio and value system.
>
> Maybe I didn't word it right but Eilistraee doesn't actually  
> sponsor the monks. They just liked some of their values, and they  
> saw her followers as people who weren't tolerated anywhere else.  
> Perhaps I should list them as allies and de-emphasize a couple of  
> things in their background.

Perhaps the monks simply don't consider Selune to be Chaotic Good.   
It's not as if there's an index in which to look up deities'  
alignments, and a group of monks might well believe that the eternal  
cycles of the moon were an excellent illustration of the fundamental  
laws which permeates all creation (such as, say, tolerance is  
extremely important because the perpetual revolutions of time will  
otherwise inexorably turn the persecutor into the persecuted, etc.).   
Sure, other monks and/or clerics would argue that Selune is really  
CG, not LG, but that's what theological disputes are for.