But... wouldn't Goddess Of Death profit the most from the Chaos rampaging through the world?

I figure there’s a balance. Can’t have death if there’s no life.

Indeed! All things come in balance. And as we know from material, a chain of events has already been set in motion to see it done.
Even the gods cannot manipulate fate, they merely petition it for mercy.

Gods of death tend to be scions of balance or order. They do not unusually benefit from an excess of it so much as enforcing a stable cycle of loss and renewal

Death is actually balance. It's part of the cycle. Rampaging Chaos would threaten that balance, she actually is probably as worried or pissed off as they are

It depends on what kind of DEATHGOD she is, if she is just one that helps souls to pass on then she has no use in killing mindless anyone, if she is in fact a reaper of souls even then she has to keep people alive or else she runs out of her purpose. And then there is all this destiny thing, if you kill one person to soon it will effect the world in other ways. Maybe we get a Lichking situation where one is now ruling over the chaosspawns.

your question on "what kind of death god" reminded me of Baal, Dungeon & Dragon's god of death.
his epithet is "the god of murder" and is the protector of Assassins
that should tell everything on how he would feel about a situation like this.

now, he has absolutely no power over the actual afterlife. only on the aspect between Life to Dead.

thankfully, this webcomic does not seem to be the kind to support that type of utter bloodlust.

Seems to be more like my group's goddess of death, Tsashara, the Lady of the Bone River.

She's not merely the goddess of death, but also of reincarnation. Her only concern is that the flow of souls does not stagnate and leave the material world or the outer planes empty.

mm.....doesn't sound that alike since you mention "reincarnation" and that means making things brought to life.

Bhaal's goal is killing and murdering.
thats it
to him, the act of killing is the goal in and of itself. to bring death to everything that lives
if it ends up massacring all life in the mortal realm so that nothing is ever left alive, it would be a nice bonus to Bhaal.

as his description states, Bhaal is "A wholly evil, debased and sadistic god"
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Bhaal

one of the major gods of evil
your Tsashara sounds more... neutral. which is nicer

Yeah, was saying that The Tree of Life's death god seemed more like Tsashara, not Bhaal.

And yes, Tsashara is True Neutral. She's only concerned with ensuring that the flow of souls is maintained, and that they go where they are meant to go. Lawful Evil souls to the Great Gaol, Chaotic Evil souls to the Sea of Blood or one of its islands, other chaotic souls to the cloudduckooland of Pandemonium, et cetera.

aaah okay, i misunderstood
"cloudduckooland of Pandemonium" okay, that one is funny

Thing about D&D's gods is that they don't represent the natural order. Rather they are the living embodiment of different aspects of human nature. And to each of their individual ends they are singleminded in nature. The consequences of their actions, long or short term, do not matter to them so long as they fulfill their domains by any means necessary.
A D&D god of death, rather than embodying the *purpose* of death in nature, instead embodies the *act* of bringing death itself. Thus their sole singleminded goal is to cause as much death as possible with no regard for the consequences, even if its logical conclusion will ultimately result in their own destruction.

They are like the Chaos gods of WH40K in that sense. Except the WH40K gods ave become twisted and corrupted versions of their original values, which used to be moderate and aligned with aspects of the natural balance rather than of mortal ideas taken to the extreme.
i.e. Khorne = conflict that brings about change, not just violence;
Nurgle = life, not just cancer and pestilence;
Tzeench = planning and intelligent design of any kind, not just malicious schemes and ambition.
Slaanesh is different, however, beause they were born as the personification of excess from the start.

well put
you describe it well

just like Aurile the goddess of winter having the singleminded goal of turning everything to ice

Chaos sounds an awful lot like American politics

Politics in general.

I'm guessing Sledar just suggested something highly taboo.

Goddess of death? I really hope he's not talking about Jana'Rah...

I feel she's still to young to be the Goddess of Death. It's probably someone we didn't saw yet, probably the counterpart of the Tree of Life.

Super hoping this new Goddess of Death turns out to be Chocolate the Chocobo!

Why that’s CRAZY!!

So crazy that it just might work.

"Alright, Chocolate, it's time to destroy the Chaos so we can go shopping again. You know what that means right....?"

"But of course my fellow Gods! You'll all need me for the battle!"

"Right.....so.....I know how much you like bringing death to things, but please, I BEG OF YOU, stop making those weird moaning noises when you do! Don't make this weird for once, okay?"

"I won't make it weird, my Brother and Sister Gods. I promise!"

[Spoiler: She made it weird.]

Is this the part where in the next comic, the Goddess of Death just poofs right behind him?

Ohhh, seems like they don't normally mention death

death is also the thing that does not play favorites. disasters happen when it does

Never speak about a god or goddess in any ill manner

I feel Sledar needs a Scottish accent. Because I still see David Tennant.

This chaos sounds like something that can’t be destroyed or gotten rid of. It just keeps coming back.

I got a bad feeling about the answer he’s gonna get.

...Why do I get the feeling this VERY personal for Sledar?

That first panel suggests he's seen some very serious stuff, and that it shook him to his core. That example happened and I'm guessing he cared deeply about all the people involved :X

We only have to take out one person...

Then it's all; You expected the Chaos; but it is I, DIO! XD

I feel like the birdie would've looked much better without teeth, atm he's uncanny af

Well if THAT quip isn't gonna have repercussions, I don't know what will...

Must a be catch to that. 8I

"Seriously, Death Goddess...go kill some f*ckers!"

I feel like mentioning her in this offhand way might have some negative consequences...

Hmmmmm.

You know...

Sledar is behaving rather like someone with enough motivation to be the perfect target and puppet of Chaos.

Nothing is more terrifying or more dangerous than a person who is convinced they are doing the right thing.

The way Godvig and Alexander reacted when Sledar made mention of the Goddess of Death in this whole chaos issue, clearly indicates that there are things that are not okay to say lightly.

Ah, life and death.

The great dance of balance. One does not take lightly asking for a short waltz with Death.

I assume this Goddess of death... Is not exactly what she seems if we ever see her... Cuase I'm sorry I am still wondering where that Horse skull god dude is?.

A god a death killing someone, now there's an idea.
What's the point of being a deity if you can't SMITE someone? That's half the fun.

Okay, Sledar is deeply and emotionally involved in this conflict, and given what has happened and what he has seen, I can understand that the apparent lack of "motivation" of the other gods can be exasperate him. Nevertheless, he risks to lack of hindsight that will lead him to do things that, I am sure he has good heart, will be the first to regret.
In fact, Sledar is also a victim of the war he is fighting, because of his trauma in fighting it.

Well, your story and your characters are incredibly rich.

Sledar is really burnt out.

Very emotionally & mentally at least. Am not sure about physically.

Being a god/goddess of death sounds an awful lot like being the janitor of the universe, doomed to sweep up/clean up the messes left by everything else. Or mercy, when you think of it. You die, and you stop suffering.

But you can't just go around wiping things out willy nilly, can you? Not really. And I mean, clearly these gods are limited as well, so I imagine the Goddess of Death is limited in what she can do also. I do want to see them though. I'm curious as to what a goddess of death would look like in this world.

Unless this is like some 40k chaos where nurgal rots you from the inside out, khorn turns a dude into a killing mechanic, Tzeentch turns your innards To outards, laugh while breaking your mind and slaanesh just torments with no ends
Then death is a mercy

Them being sick and tired of trying to deal with this chaos thing is pretty understandable

"I'm Goddess of Death, not a divine hitwoman."

Very simple solution my fictional nation has: conscript the masses

If you lack the firepower you drown them with sheer numbers, flood them with walls of pikes and swords and axes with a hail of arrows bolts and bullets on them! let the skys rain with flaming boulders and the sounds be drowned out by the roaring of muskets and cannons!

Sure, a big number of people may die, but if you toss enough at something it will eventually go away!

I think Zummeng made teeth on birds work, Douch-ksy.