I have a way that we could leave things the way they are in DR1 and avoid
a lot of the controversy:

Has anybody ever wondered what would have happened if Adam had refused
the fruit when Eve offered it to him?  Would she have been the only one
exiled from the garden?  Since Adam would have "passed the test" of
faithfulness, would God have given him the perfect mate and allowed them
and their progeny to live in utopia forever?

That's how I view the other worlds in DragonRaid.  Except for the few
inhabitants who rebelled, everyone else remained faithful.  Those who
rebelled were exiled to EA, just like British criminals were exiled to
Australia a century ago.  The faithful remain in their ideal worlds until
they pass on to Paradise.

Rich compared the DragonRaid allegory to C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of
Narnia, but I think Lewis' Space trilogy is a better comparison.  In it,
Thulcandra is fallen, while Malcandra and Perelandra are not.  All of the
evil ones are either on Thulcandra or get sent there.  That way, the
perfect planets remain perfect.  Why can't DragonRaid be like this?  It
would leave open the possibility of exploring other planets, if the OLMN
wants it, but that doesn't mean we have to know everything about them
now.

Now, to answer some questions I am sure will come up:

Who says God has to offer redemption to all the fallen?  He apparently
didn't offer it to the demons, so He doesn't have to offer it to any Dark
Creatures either.

The OLMN would much prefer it if LRs didn't have to fight at all, but He
knows that goblins and orcs are so consumed with evil that they cannot be
reasoned with, so LRs are to kill them on sight (unless there's a huge
band of fifty orcs that they have no chance of defeating; then you run
away).

In His Love,
Stephen

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