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Author: TheWanderer

Sep 9th 2014 at 11:14:25 AM

* In the 5 books focusing on Merlin in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', both the Pattern (the symbol of order) and its chaos counterpart the Logrus turn out to be sentient. They're both cold, inhuman forces willing to use the lives of its initiates like chess pieces as they try to win their battles with each other. [[spoiler:The second pattern that Corwin created has far more empathy for human life, however.]]
* In ''Literature/TheAdversaryCycle'' this is done in a manner somewhat similar to BlackAndGrayMorality. Chaos wants to destroy all indigenous life on Earth ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil. Order opposes chaos... purely to win some unknown, possibly galaxy or universe wide conflict between the two, and doesn't give much of a crap about living creatures, including its own champion. But while order may ignore humanity and not lift a finger to help it unless chaos is involved, at least it's not looking to snuff it out either.
* Representatives from both order and chaos show up to try to claim Hell in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' after Lucifer decides that he's done managing Hell and it's time to move on with his life. Neither comes off as better than the other: order seems to suffer from quite a case of CreativeSterility, has slaves, and wants Hell to make a more efficient realm out of it, while the representative from chaos incarnates as a psychopathic brat who threatens Dream with eternal war should he turn Hell over to anyone else and later reveals that chaos never really wanted hell, they simply wanted to prevent order from getting it.
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', pure order is represented by the Auditors of Reality, cosmic {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s who hate all life because it's far too messy, while pure chaos is represented by the Dungeon Dimension, home of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that would destroy our entire dimension without noticing if they even incarnated on this plane.