"Outside the ordered universe that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity..."- Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath
Slaad call their birthplace the "Spawning Stone," but that protoplasmic, protean god-mass looks nothing like any Material stone. This is perhaps a reference to its relative immutability. Its purpose is set, and in a conceptual realm, that is a notable solidity.
Some believe all slaad to merely be local projections or metastases of the spawning stones. Despite their ability to hold conversations and pursue agendas, they are also thought to lack true sentience or consciousness.
Entropy and Madness are the gods of the slaad. They are aspects of Limbo itself, perhaps, stimuli acting upon the spawning stone in some manner. They care nothing for the worship of the slaad, perhaps because they know that worship to be mere only behavioral loops without meaning--or perhaps because it is simply beneath their notice.
I'm hoping that's a Bryan Ferry reference.
ReplyDeleteGood to see these again in a slightly different light. I like how short this one is. Anything can happen there so limbo is a place where nothing really "happens" in the sense of causes connecting to effects.
However with an infinite number of slaadmonkeys typing I suspect certain local encounters with limbo will resemble character, plot and even theme. At least these are the encounters people tend to walk away from with their memory relatively intact.
I really like the brief allusion to the lords of chaos. At this late date I think their bizarre portfolio split makes perfect "sense." Madness is what happens when mind breaks down, all the dysfunctions and deterioration along the way.
Entropy is what happens when matter breaks down. Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I really don't know but the question has kept the frogs riled up for eternity so far.