TormakSaber wrote:
It's summoned, yep.
I disagree with Mav - I see no reason why, especially with metallics, an amicable agreement couldn't be entered into for summoning one.
This is exactly 100% the opposite of logical as to why good summoners summon good summons. It makes no sense and I'll explain.
You're a good archmage and in need of something stronger than you to beat the stuffing out of evil. Rending reality asunder, it's time to choose the being to enslave to your will, do you...
A) Choose a celestial or powerful being of good ethos?
or
B) Choose a fiend or powerful being of evil ethos?
If you chose A, you're somewhat a moron. First off, every celestial is a busy creature. Almost all of them serve either a Power of Good (capital G) or within the hierarchy of their plane. That is to say, odds are that Tome Archon or whatever you've brought to yourself was probably very busy guarding some post, ancient artifact of evil, watching some important personage or even waging a holy war. He's
doing important stuff you're interfering with and you're harming your own ethos. These things don't just sit around, twiddling their thumbs, hoping you call.
On the other hand, if you choose B, you're enslaving a being of the opposite ethos to your will. You've stolen a fiend away from perhaps razing an innocent village to the ground, maybe ruined some deception it was perpetuating with it's sudden disappearance. Perhaps you've even saved lives by interrupting it. More importantly, you're forcing it into doing good works
and more often than not, Evil beings are more combat-able, being built for violence typically.
That good dragon? Yeah, he's a busy guy. Odds are maybe he's fighting an evil dragon for the fate of a village at the moment. Maybe he's in human disguise tracking down some evil in a city nearby his den. He's a real being with his own agenda who's not sitting around hoping someone calls him for the 5th time today.
The evil dragon? Who cares what
he wants?
That's why pnp let's you choose each time what you want/need. And no, it's not an "agreement." You don't sit around hashing out genie contracts with everything you summon, you simply enslave it and it has to do everything you say until the time is up.