Editing Marut (section)

==4e==
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In 4th edition, maruts changed yet again, losing their [[Inevitable]] kindred. Ironically, they gained a lot of personality in this edition, being described as thinking, philosophical beings with individual minds and personalities. Maruts of the [[World Axis]] were created by the gods to be the ultimate adjudicators; completely impartial judges who would thusly be wise enough to act as mediators even the gods could not argue with.

World Axis maruts exist to preserve, honor and enforce contracts, a role that often leads to them acting as mercenaries, guards, police and other forms of enforcement. In truth, the maruts have their own great goal; to weave a web of contracts, favors and obligations that they can use to ultimately force the [[multiverse]] into adopting a more lawful, orderly format. Ironically, in creating the ultimate judges and mediators, the gods have created a race of would-be tyrants, compelled to seize ultimate power over the multiverse so they can rule it with an iron fist - not because they really want to, but because the clash between the ultimately lawless nature of reality and their own internal drives as beings of inflexible order and uncompromising law demands it.

Mortals unfortunate enough to fall under marut control, which has happened in places that fell in debt to them, quickly learn that they are the most brutal and repressive of taskmasters. Completely lacking every single vulnerability, need or urge that mere mortals have, such as the requirements of food and sleep or the limits of memory, maruts demand blind adherence to every rule, no matter how small. Those who must live under their fist learn quickly that there is no pity, no compromise, no mercy; Obedience or Death, that is the only choice.

4th edition introduced its own take on maruts in the 2nd [[Monster Manual]], and then fleshed them out further in "The Plane Above", a [[splatbook]] dedicated to the [[Astral Sea]].
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