A man walks along the road, and sees a poor beggar, dying of starvation.
A truly good man, would go out of his way to feed this poor beggar, and
help him find something far more satisfying to do. A truly evil man
would let the beggar wallow away in his misery, for a weakling that is
unable to even fulfill his own sustenance should suffer in pain. What
does a chaotic man do? To think for an instant that this chaotic man
uses any sort of rational thought process to decide what to do about a
poor beggar is completely false. He could just as easily feed the
beggar, as kill the beggar. Why then, do those seeking Goodness seek to
stop Chaos, that may, at times profess to do Good?

The Goodness of an action had many angles to judge. One must take into
consideration not merely the end result of the action, but also the
means and motives behind the action. Stealing to feed a starving man is
far less preferable than buying your own food and giving it to the
beggar. To have an ulterior motive for supporting a Good action is
rather selfish and cannot really be classified as wholeheartedly Good.
Therefore, a person whose actions are determined by Chaos-- a person
whose actions have no rules, no guidelines, nothing firm and concrete,
or any semblance of ordered, rational thought, cannot say he has done a
Good act. If, as chance would have it, a Chaotic passer-by feeds the
beggar, the passer-by is driven by Chaos, not a selfless desire to do
Good. Though the results of his actions might have been compassionate,
he has falsely deluded everyone into believing that it is, in fact, the
Right thing to do. His chaotic action is nothing more than randomness, a
lack of enlightened thought as to the reasons, or morality of his
actions. It is that chaotic nature of decision-making that is so
dangerous.

Now, as to the illusionary notion that Chaos encompasses all things, and
that this world feeds off of Chaos in order to survive, I'll point you
to history. In the beginning, there was Creation, and Chaos, isolated
and separate. Until a Horror, whose essence now lows through Lady Eris,
broke through to our plane and committed the most heinous, violent crime
to a divinity, Creation had no notion of Chaos. Creation has, can, and
will exist without Chaos. Thought Chaos might, today, manifest itself in
many mortals, there is no Chaos in the Gods, save Lady Eris. If Chaos
encompasses all, why isn't She as powerful as the Logos Himself? Why did
the Logos set aside a distinct ethos for Chaos, separate from Light,
Darkness, Good, Evil, Nature, Death, and all the other realms of this
world? One perhaps can argue that Chaos may -seem- to be in everything,
and everyone, but the world can easily prosper without it. Chaos is not
necessary for sentience or even for existence.

Finally, I should probably respond to Saruman's analysis of occult
blades. For what purpose is an occultist's blade, but to serve the
occultist's purposes in their sacrifices? Whether that blade has spilt
the blood of an evil person, or a good person, the power gained from
using the blade derives from selfishness to serve your own occult needs.
It does not matter whether it scars evil or good. It steals the life
essence of others to benefit the occultists, and only the occultists. No
one has yet to show me an example of an action wrought in Chaos that is
truly Good-in motives, methods, and results. Claiming to do Good is
actually a lot easier than it might seem. To actually do Good, on the
other hand, is rather difficult, and takes unwavering determination, a
giant's will, and a selfless set of motives that are rational, firm and
above all else, Ordered.

-Sir Brinn, the Bully Pulpit

Penned by my hand on the 10th of Mayan, in the year 301 AF.