Quote Originally Posted by rbetieh View Post
Let us take the tact that you mean by these words that an Evil person would consider this plane paradise (we purposely will ignore what non-evils might think of it). If so, then Xykon would not wish to avoid it, right? Further, Belkar gives his musings on what a CG afterlife might look like and he seems to depict a situation that he himself would enjoy. Take the two musings together and the 2 CE characters we interact with the most say "CG - good afterlife, CE - Bad afterlife".

Let us take the tact that all afterlives are equal outcomes (and everyone in the world sees it that way), then we now have to reconcile the fact that Evil outsiders attempt to lead people into doing things that will result in those people falling into their 3 outcomes. If they are all equal, then why convince you to go to one over another? People will just do what they want, and each afterlife will get its even distribution of the alignment chart. What good does it do devils to add more souls to their plane?
It's a bit more complicated than that, because the Great Wheel Cosmology (which "Order of the Stick" uses with the serial numbers filed off) is composed of more than nine planes. There are planes that overlap different Alignments. Bytopia overlaps Lawful Good and Neutral Good, The Beastlands overlap Neutral Good and Chaotic Good, Asgard overlaps Chaotic Good and Chaotic Neutral, Pandemonium overlaps Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Evil, Carceri overlaps Chaotic Evil and Neutral Evil, Gehenna overlaps Neutral Evil and Lawful Evil, Acheron overlaps Lawful Evil and Lawful Neutral, and Arcadia overlaps Lawful Neutral and Lawful Good. This leaves Mt. Celestia, Elysium, Arborea, Limbo, The Infinite Layers of the Abyss, The Grey Waste, the Nine Hells and Mechanus as representing a single Alignment each.

What this means is that a Petitioner who is Lawful Good, but who is more Lawful than Good might end up in Arcadia; another Lawful Good Petitioner who sometimes uses Neutral methods to pursue Good goals might end up in Bytopia. Likewise, a Lawful Evil soldier who obeys orders and therefore fights brutally, would be more likely to end up as a Petitioner in Acheron where he would be recruited to fight endless battles, until he acheives perfection in ruthless battle, or is destroyed. But a Lawful Evil soldier who enjoys committing atrocities for their own sake is more likely to end up as a Larvae in Baator, where he could be tortured for centuries to transform into a Lemure or Nuperribo Devil. I really don't think that centuries of torment is anyone's ideal afterlife. By contrast, the idea of getting to fight eternal battles is so appealing to some cultures, that it's the main attraction in Chaotic Good/Chaotic Neutral Asgard.

Note that no outsider offered the already evil Kubota any help with his schemes, but tempting the Neutral Varsuvius was seen as an added perk to the IFCCs plans.
It's already been mentioned, but the reason the IFCC wanted to make a deal with Vaarsuvius had to do with their plans for the Gates and the Snarl. Getting V and Blackwing's souls are a bonus prize to destroying the Forces of Good once and for all.

And this is why Evil Goblinoids worship the Dark One (get out of jail free pass, no fire, no torture, just army duty). I can *almost not* imagine a Good Goblinoid worshiping the Dark One, maybe the stray Neutral, but not a Good. (ok, I can imagine one doing so, if so that he can stay with his friends/family after death; but how do you serve in that army and maintain your good conscience?)

Interestingly enough, what we come to is that all Evil Goblins have incentive to worship the Dark One, but no Dark One worshipers have incentive to be Good....
Pretty much. The Dark One's ethos seems to have been heavily shaped by the circumstances of how he became a god in the first place. (See SoD for details!) Redcloak might try to justify some of the things that the Dark One's Plan entails, but he's crossed a moral line a long time ago. I sympathize with Redcloak's tragic life, but that doesn't keep me from acknowledging that he is one of the villains of this story.

As for the afterlife Jirix described, it's pretty consistent with one of the floating cubes that make up Acheron in D&D's Great Wheel Cosmology. These cubes are huge, measuring hundreds or even thousands of miles on a side (or more!) and entire armies battle for control of a side, trying to gain resources so they can launch futile attempts to sieze other sides of a cube or launch assaults on different cubes. The only aspect missing from Jirix's sermon were the Mercane dropping by to sell magic weapons, armor and Spelljamming ships and Helms. (How else do you expect the Dark One's forces to attack another cube? )