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Day and Night released! (Patreon)

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2015-10-28 20:17:32
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HuginnMuninn

All right, until a dedicated thread to Day and Night is made on the forums, the analysis will go here. Reading Day and Night gave me a chance to reflect on the nature of light and darkness, as well as how it pertains to FiM, and the changes that Ponyfinder makes thereof. I've always seen light as lawful and darkness as chaotic. Makes sense given the lawful bent of human societies and their preference for light over darkness. So it's with some amusement that Celestia and Luna are somewhat reversed, with Celestia being more laid-back and Luna seemingly much more formal. Causes interesting results when I try and port Celly and Lulu over to my own Pathfinder setting where they are clerics of the Lawful Good and Chaotic Good deities respectively, but I digress. Ponyfinder keeps with this theme somewhat, with the Sun Queen being Neutral Good and the Moon Princess being Lawful Neutral. Luna can be seen as somewhat neutral as well thanks to occational dark desires, but rather than being torn with internal strife, the Moon Princess is more harmonious, averaging herself out to neutrality. I suspect she leans towards good, somewhat. Were it up to me, I'd have it so that she doesn't accept clerics of evil alignment, much like Greyhawk's St. Cuthbert - and such clerics would likely go for The Night Mare anyways. Now, the evil sides of night and day. Blaze... is not what most people would have thought of if they turned Celestia evil. This is a good thing, because Tyrantlestia is a stupid concept. Anyway, Blaze is an interesting character. She's Chaotic Evil, yet has at least a semblance of good - or at least positive motivation - within her. She's cruel and merciless, but her desire is to protect ponykind. It makes one wonder if she's evil not entirely because of her disposition, lacking in compassion though she is, but because ponies can never see a deity of war as anything but evil, and she takes the role with burning passion. The Night Mare is pretty close to Nightmare Moon, who I've always seen as Lawful Evil. Her motivations are different - she is not a creature driven to evil by envy and isolation. She desires not the love her subjects, merely their obedience. Really, she reminds me of my own Lawful Evil god in my setting. Interestingly, it's notable that her conflict is not with the Sun QUeen or Blaze - it's with the Moon Princess. Essentially, the internal conflict of Luna has become external, with two sides vying for dominance, two similar but subtly incompatible goals at stake. It's worth noting that Blaze and The Night Mare are both described as (currently) wishing to protect ponykind, albeit in their own pitiless ways. This makes sense, since in real-world religions, pantheons tend to be pretty close-knit, and "villains" of the gods tend to be outside the pantheon proper, like Apophis in Egyptian lore. One has to wonder, however - is their desire for protection like that of the desire to protect family or followers? Or do they just see ponykind as their property that they do not wish to see damaged? That's all for now. I stopped briefly when I got to the feats section, so any further critique will have to wait. I get the feeling there was something mechanics-based I wanted to discuss, but I don't recall it at the moment.

HuginnMuninn
>>931219

Well, I'm glad you do. Thoughts on my thoughts? They can go on the Ponyfinder forums if you so desire. Always nice to speak with you. ^^ ...Oh yeah, I'm Dusk Raven on Ponyfinder. And FiMFiction.

ponyfinder
>>931219

Well, I'd say Moon Princess could have evil clerics. Protecting monsters from interfering with ponies with the ponies getting the short measure of the stick, for instance, or the thought that monsters need to be actively hunted, even when they aren't in contact with ponies. A heartless zealot that sought to exterminate all creatures of the night that COULD hurt ponies? Evil Moon Princess cleric.

Damaged

In a similar vein you could have a chaotic neutral cleric of Blaze, devoted to making sure her dread goddess never has to return to the world of Everglow, willing to go to any length to prevent it. There is always room in such well-rounded gods, for a follower who chooses a tangential approach to worship.