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Arguably, that might make him too predictable to be a “chaos god.” Then again, I suspect the real reason is that people liked de Lancie’s voice acting.
But I do agree that when he was introduced, he was basically Nyarlathotep, if you’ve read your Lovecraft. He was an cruel and insane alien god from another dimension, playing a game with rules only he understood. They were able to turn him to stone because he permitted it, and he did not sit in the garden one second longer than he wanted to. He was an awesome villain, intelligent and more than competent, genuinely menacing, genuinely frightening, to the point where I wonder how much the writers toned it down for the intended audience.
They ruined him when they brought him back and made him into a regular character. Nyarlathotep does not attend tea parties, at least if he’s not playing some kind of monstrously cruel prank.
Mace: the Gdark age?
@office mare
Then it zooms out and you see that he’s about three inches long and being viewed through a high power magnifying glass.
**I SAID CALM!!**
On a thematic level, no. On a story level, maybe I honestly enjoyed a good bit of his post reform antics and fan service, but it is something that on some level has never fully sat right with me, at least the way it was done. It would have been nice to have persevered that dynamic and it would’ve given more order to the series over just sometimes ill defined dark magic forces and magic users who are simply bad actors 100% of the time. I understood why they did it, at the time thinking season 3 would be the last season and all, they wanted to make one more episode with Discord.
When you put it that way, it really didn’t make sense to reform him, did it?
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In the land where dragons rule