Norfleet
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Those people don't have functioning societies, though. This allows them to do things "for the evulz" because they don't need to form a coherent society with social order that lasts for any meaningful length of time. When you're a crazy cult, you can carve out people's hearts for the evulz. When you're a SOCIETY, you can still do this kind of thing, but it must now be for some kind of socially useful purpose, like making sure the sun will contnue to rise, and stops being some kind of purposeless act of cartoon evil done for the evulz: It is now a good, socially-approved behavior, and it wrong be wrong to do otherwise.And yes, there are people who literally kill for 'for teh evils'. Worshipers of evil deities, for example. Though in Chaotic Evil characters, killing for fun or because they despise the weak would probably be more common, or Neutral or Lawful Evil characters killing for personal motives.
I dunno about THAT. I mean, we already saw this happen back in 2014 when an entire part of Ukraine transitioned to being part of Russia because the inhabitants decided to believe so, and it might be happening again.Real terrain doesn't travel to another dimension based on belief. I wish it did. We'd all be rid of shitholes like California overnight.
I'm not entirely clear as to these two concepts are separate. Is this any different from a region slipping into another ruler's territory simply because enough of the inhabitants decide they're part of this other country instead, given that planes don't really have formally drawn borders enforced by some kind of interplanar order?You don't get it. They're not simply changing, they're falling into another plane of existence. The planes have intrinsic alignment. If they didn't, alignments wouldn't gravitate to them. Gate towns like Curst would simply become evil right where they are in the Outlands, not slip into Carceri.
More importantly, regardless of the causality of a plane's given behavior, it simply is what it is: Just because there might be objective planar alignments doesn't mean these labels necessarily have to be "good" or "evil". We just call them evil because we don't like the way they roll.