An
Ancestor worshipped by Swiftblade's Company, Oggy represents
all that is balance. Oggy is neither Good nor Bad, Chaotic
nor Lawful and should not be considered Neutral.
Oggy
teaches that, for example, Law cannot exist without its
counterpart, Chaos, for they must oppose one another.
The words themselves are meaningless without the opposite
to use as a counter-definition. Chaos, in essence, means
absence of law and order. The word "Order" would
not form part of a vocabulary where there was no such
thing as disorder.
Similarly
with Good and Evil and Life and Death, they cannot exist
without the other. Oggy teaches his followers these fundamental
truths. However, unlike most teachings for balance, Oggy
does not seek to covert others away from their chosen
alignment, instead Oggy teaches them to embrace their
beliefs and lends power to them for they must oppose each
other to keep the balance in check. Life without death
is meaningless. Unlife however, is another matter.
Oggy
opposes unlife in that its very existence opposes nature
itself. Nature is always balanced and Oggy is part of
the natural "order" (Order being used in the
loosest sense, bearing in mind that Chaos forms part of
it). Oggy is very active in the opposition of unlife.
Oggy
also opposes other unnatural forces that form no part
of the scales, for example Dark Trade. Dark Trade forms
no part of life's great scheme, for Trade can exist without
Dark Trade, they do not balance each other in any way.
Both unlife and Dark Trade, instead of being a part of
the balance, would destroy the scales of balance themselves.
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