The Archmages of Sia Tower, however, could not quite accept Nicholson's world.
When a power was founded by lawful beings, no matter how evil they were, there would inevitably be a pattern to their actions.
So if devils invaded a world in force, even if they could conceal their presence at first, they would inevitably leave traces in the end... unless they could succeed in one fell swoop before they were exposed.
But any world that caught the devils' eye could hardly be worthless.
They had very discerning tastes!
For example, back in the High Forest, the ancestral homeland of Toril's elves, the demonic Teleportation Gate controlled by Six-Finger had been called the Hell Fortress.
In other words, the ones who had first set their sights on them were devils.
But although the devils' methods were evil, and although they had brought several great elven kingdoms to ruin, as long as the elves still had powerful figures with sufficiently steadfast wills, they could establish defensive lines and gradually reclaim their lost territory.
Then the devils had been toppled by Graz'zt, the Abyss Lord who had been watching hungrily all along and enjoyed scheming in the shadows even more than they did.
Devils excelled at wearing down human resistance and willpower over long stretches of time, yet were poor at securing the final victory in prolonged wars.
But even knowing their weaknesses, they could not change their nature.
The demons' way of fighting, ending either in total victory or total annihilation, only earned the devils' scorn.
What was the point of fighting if you lost your life? Who were you even fighting for?
And the Sia mages, who had established their own dark, oppressive order under the influence of such beliefs, truly could not make any sense of the Nicholson Faction's