Can any force that so punishes evildoers be considered Only are these creatures imprisoned, they are endlessly tormented. After all, they have imprisoned some of the most terrible beings in the multiverse. The Dark Powers are Good: An equal number of scholars put forth the assumption that the dark powers are actuallyĬreatures of good, not evil. Recruiting center from which an incredible army of malevolence will one day be released? That possibility could be the most After all, the dark powers have gone to a greatĭeal of trouble to create a vast region in which to concentrate the evil of the multiverse. The Dark Powers are Evil: Certainly, evidence exists to support this belief. Have uncovered conflicting evidence, supporting any number of possible answers. Importantly, it is impossible to say whether any given answer is right or wrong. Quite simply, no one seems to know the answer to this question. The earliest days of Ravenloft's existence. The precise nature of the dark powers is debated by sages and scholars throughout the land.
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Is it possible, therefore, to learn the secrets of the dark powers through a careful study of the macabre place they haveĬreated? One would think so, but proving the validity of the conclusions produced by such a study would be difficult or even I'm not aware of any clearer or more definitive information from any later edition, so this is the best support I could find even for a question tagged for 5e: I have a searchable copy of Domains of Dread from D&D's second edition which contains this section in Chapter 1 (the searchable copy seems to have some formatting differences from a print copy, so I can't give a page number citation). That makes this question difficult (if not impossible) to answer definitively. There is no official documentation nor official statements I'm aware of that describe a whole lot about the nature and history of the Dark Powers. The Dark Powers have never been all that clearly defined. So the malevolent entities must have existed before the Amber Temple.
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Of dead, malevolent entities) they had captured and the hoard of They needed a vault in which to contain the evil vestiges (remnants Have the powers originate in the Amber Temple, but later moved to Shadowfell? Are Dark Powers different from what evil vestiges that the Amber Temple also mentions (and some point switches from evil vestiges to Dark Powers)?įinally, how can it say that Dark Powers originated in the Amber Temple, if the evil vestigates are: He knows only that the Dark Powers that created Strahd's domain wereīorn in the temple, and that these entities feed on the evil that However, in the chapter thirteen the story is different: Unwilling to go the way of his father, Strahd studied magic and forgedĪ pact with the Dark Powers of the Shadowfell in return for the I am running the Curse of Strahd and one thing seems inconsistent.