D&D General Dragons of Chaos and Law in Mythology?
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. Off to go look his influences up.
Aldarc
Legend
Sometimes chaos is less of a void or nothingness but simply the state of "stuff" lacking any discernable sense of order, like an incredibly messy room or a garbage landfill. So "creation" is the act of ordering this "stuff" into something: i.e., creatio ex materia. This is one reason why creatio ex nihilo is debated by biblical scholars regarding even the Genesis 1 account.
Yep. Moorcock doesn't take Anderson's concepts directly but he does cite Anderson as an influence. That is one thing that I appreciate about Moorcock. There are some authors who vehemently deny their influences. Moorcock, on the other hand, cites and praises them.
And, on top of that, when we think of "void" today, we think of emptiness and vacuum. But to those who made these descriptions didn't have a concept of "vacuum", per se. The root words of void don't mean "literal nothingness" so much as they mean "unoccupied".
Zeromaru X
Arkhosian scholar and coffee lover
Thanks, I like that sound.
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