That was awfully cute.
Awww.
Ditto.
Of course, this means Belkar dies soon.
Awwwwwwwww.
For the first time I feel like I’m gonna miss the little guy.
kwoooooooooo…
I’m with this group.
Awwwww.
The giant dinosaur interaction was cute, but the way Belkar edged around almost having a personal insight in panels 4-7 was the best bit for me.
So if Belkar no long qualifies for the chaotic evil afterlife, where do we think he ends up?
I’d say Chaotic Neutral.
Chaotic Neutral. He’s not Good and he’s definitely not Lawful/Neutral on that axis. Sure, he’s moderately better at working in a team but that doesn’t mean much – Elan and Haley work fine in the team and both are Chaotic (Elan literally has an Anarchic/Chaos sword).
That’s my best guess, too. I’m wondering what the chaotic neutral afterlife looks like.
The plane of Chaotic Neutral alignment is Limbo. Traditionally it’s a place where everything is in constant flux, nothing is actually solid (or liquid or…) and visitors or souls get absorbed into the shifting gloop. That sounds pretty terrible for an afterlife though and some deities have their realms there so I guess they exert enough control to make something more stable. I mean, imagine going from some Celestial’s ivory palace to some Infernal’s jagged lava torturescape and then visiting a CN deities realm and it’s just boiling Play-Doh. That’s not impressive at all!
Slaads! Slaads everywhere.
If he dies doing something heroic and selfless he might just make it over the line into “Chaotic Good”. And end up with Shojo (and possibly Mr Scruffy), as per his pyramid fantasy.
Grilling kippers and brats with Shojo and Mr. Scruffy. And whole cows for Bloodfeast.
I’d kind of like to see that.
The fact that Belkars fantasy life was being a cook that involved no violence or criminality might indicate that, at his core, he’s not truly evil. Just not smart/wise enough to see why he should follow rules.
It’s not just “boiling play-doh.” From the DND wiki:
I always imagined it looking a lot like Dr. Strange’s astral plane, as conceived by Steve Ditko:
How much the OotS cosmology matches the official DnD cosmology is, of course, open to question. In the default setting, souls that go to Limbo become absorbed by the swirling chaos, and don’t retain any of their individuality from when they were alive, but Burlew might well ignore that for OotS’s afterlife.
The githzerai maintain their fortresses and cities in Limbo so it’s not all chaos…
But in any case, there are more Outer Planes than just the 9 basic alignments. There are 17 (and that’s just using the old Great Wheel model that nevertheless seems to underlie OOTS’ cosmology) and that leaves room for things like Chaotic Neutral Good Gladsheim.