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Character Alignment

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Character Alignment	comment	Character Alignment Lawful Good \| Neutral Good \| Chaotic Good Lawful Neutral \| True Neutral \| Chaotic Neutral Lawful Evil \| Neutral Evil \| Chaotic Evil Character Alignment is a shorthand for a given character's (or religion's, society's, organization's, etc.) moral/ethical outlook on life, the universe and everything. Many roleplaying games use some sort of alignment system as a Karma Meter, an "ideal" for a character to live up to, or just a descriptive shorthand for characters. Some gamers deride Character Alignments as crutches to "real roleplaying", so some systems accordingly have none at all. Expect a setting that uses Character Alignments to make frequent use of plots about Order Versus Chaos and Balance Between Good and Evil. The alignment system most roleplayers are familiar with is the one used in Dungeons & Dragons, which has appeared in a couple of different forms: The original editions of Dungeons & Dragons drew on the works of Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock to come up with two axes: Ethical axis: Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic (AKA Order, Balance, and Chaos). Lawful (Order) represents honor and obedience to the law; Chaotic (Chaos) leans toward personal freedom, without regards to the law; and Neutral (Balance) is an intermediate position that either doesn't care or seeks balance between the two ends. Moral axis: Good, Neutral, and Evil. Good focuses on improving others' well-being; Evil focuses on the self, even at the expense of others; and Neutral serves a similar role as on the ethical axis, but tends to favor their friends and family. Combining the two axes allowed characters to be of nine possible alignments, as follows: Lawful Good: Both honorable and kind, Lawful Good characters believe that working together and following a code of conduct makes life better for everyone. Heroic types may stand up to fight for Truth, Justice and such, but the commonfolk just tend to pay their taxes, keep their word, and volunteer on weekends. The really extreme types might run the risk of becoming a Wide-Eyed Idealist. While sometimes mischaracterized as The Fundamentalist, Lawful Good is just as much Good as Lawful, so they'll resist efforts to let rules inflict harm. Neutral Good: Sweetness and light. Doing good is more important than upholding the law, but law is not a bad thing. Not too caught up in Order Versus Chaos; concerned with moral goodness, but often not willing to enforce it in others. Neutral Good states may be really nice places to live, but depending on how idealistic or cynical the setting is, they may be deluding themselves into being too idealistic. Chaotic Good: Rebels and free spirits who are stereotypically found opposing tyrants and other oppressive types. They tend to believe that things like order, discipline, and honor can get in the way of doing good. Their free-spirited, easily bored nature means that if the local government isn't considered sufficiently oppressive, they might just go out and find one that is. Lawful Neutral: If it's against the rules, then it's bad, no matter what. Lawful Neutral characters believe that order is more important than kindness, empathy and understanding. Often highly honorable, if they give their word, they'll carry it out even if it makes things worse. While they don't try to use the system to exploit others, like Lawful Evil characters, they can be shockingly indifferent if people do get ground up by the cogs of justice. Characters of this type often feature in an Order Versus Chaos situation where neither side is proven to be right. True Neutral: Sometimes known as just Neutral, or even Neutral Neutral. Comes in two flavors: Keeping the Balance and Just Doesn't Care. The balance-happy sort may sometimes be characters just too dumb to know the difference, but may also be a Wild Card. Intelligent true neutrals are quite logical in how they go about things, including morals. Chaotic Neutral: Chaotic Neutral characters are all about freedom, and don't care so much about rules or morality. They're wild, carefree and selfish, but not so callous or sadistic as to be actually evil. The most extreme examples act randomly. When evil alignments are unavailable, Chaotic Neutral is often used by players in Tabletop Games to excuse doing anything they feel like, and as such is often prohibited by the sort of Game Master who also prohibits evil characters. Just as often the bad guys as the good guys in an Order Versus Chaos situation. The main difference between Chaotic Neutral and Chaotic Evil is a matter of execution. Lawful Evil: Organized evil with a master plan. Often members of The Empire, they use organization, rules and honor to their advantage, inflicting their will on others by achieving power within the system. Be they a Noble Demon, a Proud Warrior Race Guy, or just someone who believes in keeping order at all costs, they are not to be underestimated. Neutral Evil: The consummate pragmatists, Neutral Evil characters don't find themselves shackled to their impulses or bound by rules of law and honor. They are only interested in one thing: themselves. They'll do whatever is most prudent to get them to their desired destination, no matter whom they have to hurt along the way. Chaotic Evil: Will do whatever they want to, especially if it hurts other people, without regard for the rules. While a Neutral Evil person would work within the system until it was convenient not to, a chaotic evil person would often work outside the system. Contrary to what some believe, Chaotic Evil does not have to mean wanton, meaningless slaughter and destruction. Rather, they usually consider what is practical in a particular situation. It helps to think of it as a 3x3 square with the moral and ethical axes on each side, and all the possible alignments surrounding True Neutral, like so: Alignment Chart Lawful Neutral Chaotic Good Lawful Good Neutral Good Chaotic Good Neutral Lawful Neutral True Neutral Chaotic Neutral Evil Lawful Evil Neutral Evil Chaotic Evil The alignment any particular character falls under is mostly a matter of opinion in works other than Tabletop Games, due to the large wiggle room for Alternate Character Interpretation, character development, and so on. However, that doesn't stop RPG fans from discussing what alignment characters in other works would be. In fact, a meme on the imageboard 4chan is creating motivational posters of various characters from fiction and real life, with a caption explaining their alignment. As a general rule, do not add Character Alignment to any work where it is not featured in Canon, as it will just lead to an Edit War. The Great Character Alignment Debate explains this in more detail. In particular, there will be no real-life examples under these circumstances, except for descriptions of proposed systems like the four humours theory. See also Unconventional Alignment, Lawful Stupid, Chaotic Stupid, Stupid Good, Stupid Evil, Stupid Neutral, Always Lawful Good, Always Chaotic Evil, and Good and Evil for Your Convenience. The Mirror Morality Machine will invert any alignment... except for True Neutral; the opposite of zero is still zero.
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Character Alignment / int_108cd205	comment	Wizardry uses the good/evil axis, though it leaves out order and chaos. The manual states that a good man helps an old lady across the street, a neutral man crosses the street and helps an old lady across, an evil male PC helps a young lady across the street, and the level of evil they all oppose helps an old lady halfway across the street. A note adds that since the game uses Purely Aesthetic Gender, a good woman helps an old man across the street.
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Character Alignment / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time has mentioned the idea of Character Alignment on occasion, such as the unaligned ant from "The Enchiridion!" and the in-universe-identified Chaotic Evil Hunson Abadeer from "It Came From the Nightosphere" and "Return to the Nightosphere". Near the end of "Ignition Point", Finn and the Flame King even use D&D terminology to discuss the alignment of the flame people and Flame Princess.
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Character Alignment / int_1f170d5e	comment	ADOM: The game has the old-D&D-style "Order Versus Chaos (psst, it's really Black-and-White Morality)" system. There's a scale of symbols representing the different steps from completely Chaotic to completely Lawful: C- C C+ CN NC N- N= N+ NL LN L L+ Whether you're primarily Chaotic, Neutral, or Lawful (as indicated by the first letter of your alignment) determines which of your three racial deities you serve. You can pray to become a champion of your alignment after having the most extreme version (which for Neutral, could also be called the least extreme) and getting extremely favoured by your deity. The sequel, JADE, is supposed to add the Good/Evil axis to this.
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Character Alignment / int_2161674a	comment	The Gamers: Dorkness Rising features a character who claims to be Chaotic Neutral, but whose actions lead others to believe that she is evil. The joke is that this is how most people play Chaotic Neutral.
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Character Alignment / int_21c08fc5	comment	Friendship is Dragons: As a "what if MLP was a D&D game" comic, these are of course inevitable. They're using 4th edition, though, so the alignments mean slightly different things. Twilight Sparkle is Lawful Good. This forms the core of her identity to try to do good, especially in the name of her lawful patron Celestia. The irony that the girl who likes rules is the one who is constantly taking the campaign Off the Rails is probably intentional. Pinkie Pie is Unaligned (sort of a less devout True Neutral). Rarity grumbles that Unaligned bards tend to use their alignment as an excuse to do whatever they want. Applejack is Lawful Good. She is more of an Honest Corporate Executive, keeping all her money-making schemes within the bounds of the law and helping others. Rainbow Dash is Chaotic Evil. While she initially seems like she's using the alignment as an excuse to start fights whenever she wants, when another character briefly plays someone Chaotic Evil, she explains that it's important to reign yourself in so that the other players don't get pissed and kick you out. The trick is to only "randomly" attack the characters that everyone else hates, but can't attack because of their alignments. Rarity was originally Evil (roughly equivalent to Neutral Evil), but shifted to Unaligned after the first session. Her primary concern is herself and her friends; everything else is irrelevant. Fluttershy is Good (Neutral Good), and spends most of her time worrying about the feelings of absolutely everyone, including the monsters they meet.
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Character Alignment / int_268243	comment	The Agendas from Monsterpocalypse, which roughly describe why the faction in question is turning up to the giant robot vs. kaiju fights. Essentially, there are six of these, with the forces of each Agenda capable of allying with the ones on either side. Protectors (GUARD, Elemental Champions): Good guys, at least insofar as that's compatible with the game mechanics. These factions defend humanity, albeit at the expense of a lot of lives and no small number of buildings destroyed. Radicals (Terrorsaurs, Empire of the Apes): Evil-leaning neutral. Knight Templar Well-Intentioned Extremists who don't necessarily want to destroy humanity, but who have a goal they care about a lot more than, for example, Tokyo still being there. So far the game's Radical factions have been eco-terrorists, but the agenda isn't necessarily restricted to that. Fiends (Lords of Cthul, Subterran Uprising): Bad guys. Very, very bad guys. Fiends want people to die, preferably painfully. They tend not to have much in the way of motive beyond For the Evulz. Destroyers (Planet Eaters, Savage Swarm): Giving these creatures a moral alignment would assume they were capable of caring about morality. They're mostly just hungry. It's not clear how many of them are even sapient. Invaders (Martian Menace, Tritons): Bad guys, but ones with a motivation beyond "being the bad guys". These factions want something humanity has — land, resources, people — and are here in force to take it. Collaborators (Shadow Sun Syndicate, Ubercorp International): Bad guys, kind of, but pragmatic ones, something of a Token Evil Teammate. They're mostly interested in profiting from what's going on (even if that requires selling out to the Invaders), but can work with the Protectors because mostly what the Collaborators want requires that the human species still be here next week.
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Character Alignment / int_26ef42e7	comment	Kevin & Kell has an alignment chart of the characters now.
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Character Alignment / int_2703df44	comment	The Class of Heroes series utilizes the moral axis of (Good, Neutral, and Evil) to influence whichever class is available to a character. All ten playable races can cover the entire axis — including the demonic Diaboloses or the angelic Celestians — thus it's not impossible to create a good Diabolos or an evil Celestian.
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Character Alignment / int_2a24b420	comment	Set in a modernized D&D-inspired world, I Do Not Want To Do This treats alignment a range of philosophical perspectives, with companies officially not discriminating in hiring on the basis of alignment and the (Good-aligned) protagonist cringing when he hears people speaking forcefully against Evil rather than employing a more modern, tolerant view.
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Character Alignment / int_2b70efd4	comment	Both Old World of Darkness and New World of Darkness: neither have nearly as explicit a system as Dungeons & Dragons, but still has a stat representing how "moral" each character is. This is called by a lot of different names, based on which edition and gameline you're playing, but it's generally a scale of "bestial monstrosity" (0) to "saint." (10) New World of Darkness characters also pick one each of seven virtues and seven vices, which add additional depth. A character who chooses, say, Justice and Wrath will be very different from somebody who chooses Faith and Pride. The second edition of the New World of Darkness introduced an updated system with The God-Machine Chronicle. "Integrity" replaces Morality and the only thing that's universal are modifiers, like when protecting a loved one or acting against a vice. These are then applied to character-specific "Breaking Points" that resemble a psychological Trauma Conga Line, rather than medieval ethics. The karma meters are sometimes intentionally incompatible or variant across different splats, and may in various cases either be added to the human morality meter as an additional list of requirements (Mage: The Awakening's wisdom), displace the old morality with a new, strange morality with entirely different requirements (Werewolf's system notably is fine with murder and theft but heavily penalizes disrespect and hunting sentients for food specifically), or in the hands of a particularly cruel storyteller added to the character as a second, orthogonal meter similar to D and D's order-law grid, requiring the player to track both how good a monster he is and how good a human he is to determine the balance between the two.
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Character Alignment / int_2ba3e3b9	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey incorporates Law/Neutral/Chaos into battle gameplay: When you or one of your demons hits an enemy with an element they're weak to, other allies of the same alignment will execute a Demon Co-Op attack. Enemies cannot do the same, however, although it's still a good idea to prevent yourself from being pounded with too many weakness attacks.
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Character Alignment / int_2dc12aeb	comment	NetHack has D&D-inspired Order Versus Chaos alignment system which decides what artifacts you can use, what deities you worship, and if you get punished for things like stealing from shops or attacking peaceful creatures. The Unfought Big Bad evil god Moloch is unaligned.
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Character Alignment / int_2f203125	comment	Alignment plays a huge role in the Shin Megami Tensei series of games: Each monster is classed on the Law-Neutral-Chaos axis and the Light-Neutral-Dark axis. The former is the important one: monsters that are Chaotic will refuse to join you if the main character is Lawful and vice-versa. The alignment of the main character is determined by the type of monsters he summons (eg: Lawful creatures will move your alignment towards Law), by his responses to philosophical questions asked at key points of the game, and by whose dirty work (The Messians or the Gaians) he carries out. The ending of the game is determined by the final alignment of the main character. Interestingly, Neutrality is presented neither as the uncaring or balancing alignment, but rather one that focuses on individual choice and inner strength, as opposed to relying on outside power. Megami Tensei I & Megami Tensei II feature alignments along the axis of Good-Neutral-Evil. Shin Megami Tensei I features an alignment system along the axis of Law-Neutral-Chaos — Light-Neutral-Dark is not actually a Good-Neutral-Evil axis in the traditional sense, insteadbut representing the mythological reputation of the entity in question as something to be revered or reviled; the original manual describes Light as "closer to a god" and Dark as "closer to a demon." It is the earliest known videogame to have an alignment system that directly affects the direction of the storyline and which of the Multiple Endings the player is given, through the choices and actions the player makes that alter the player character's alignment. Shin Megami Tensei II uses the same kind of alignment system. In both cases, the main character's actions on the Order Versus Chaos axis determine the ending, and the game does not take a stand on which path is best. In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, the previous system of alignment is discarded in favour of three specific philosophies: Shijima (which is closest to Law, except that the Knight Templar tendencies take a different form), Musubi (Neutral, focusing on individuality and freedom of choice), and Yosuga (Chaos with a heavy dose of the elitism that Law was previously known for). Also, there's screwing them all and either returning the world to the way it used to be, or leaving the Vortex World the way it is, and in the Maniax edition, True Demon, in which you say "fuck that noise," give up your leftover humanity and join Lucifer's army in order to take out God and keep this stuff from happening over and over again. Games outside the main continuity tend to ditch the alignment system completely. Devil Survivor, despite having Multiple Endings, bases your ending on who you ally with to gain control of Babel and end the lockdown. These six endings are still somewhat analogous to the classic Shin Megami Tensei alignments; Law — Aname (Utopia Justifies the Means) / Atsuro (My Country, Right or Wrong), Neutral — Yuzu (Bystander Syndrome) / Gin (Reset Button), Chaos — Naoya (Rage Against the Heavens) / Kaido (The Social Darwinist). Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey incorporates Law/Neutral/Chaos into battle gameplay: When you or one of your demons hits an enemy with an element they're weak to, other allies of the same alignment will execute a Demon Co-Op attack. Enemies cannot do the same, however, although it's still a good idea to prevent yourself from being pounded with too many weakness attacks. Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis lets your character also move along the Light/Dark axis. This is interesting, as according to the usual representation of the system, although a human can lean toward Light or Dark within the Neutral category, they can't leave it without ceasing to be human. In short, there are four major characters in the series that represent each of the four ends of the axis. Lucifer (Chaos), YHVH (Law), Philemon (Good), and Nyarlathotep (Evil).
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Character Alignment / int_39d65d3b	comment	Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis lets your character also move along the Light/Dark axis. This is interesting, as according to the usual representation of the system, although a human can lean toward Light or Dark within the Neutral category, they can't leave it without ceasing to be human.
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Character Alignment / int_3a596334	comment	Shin Megami Tensei I features an alignment system along the axis of Law-Neutral-Chaos — Light-Neutral-Dark is not actually a Good-Neutral-Evil axis in the traditional sense, insteadbut representing the mythological reputation of the entity in question as something to be revered or reviled; the original manual describes Light as "closer to a god" and Dark as "closer to a demon." It is the earliest known videogame to have an alignment system that directly affects the direction of the storyline and which of the Multiple Endings the player is given, through the choices and actions the player makes that alter the player character's alignment. Shin Megami Tensei II uses the same kind of alignment system. In both cases, the main character's actions on the Order Versus Chaos axis determine the ending, and the game does not take a stand on which path is best.
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Character Alignment / int_3a5e2165	comment	True Villains has bonus material revealing many of the characters' alignments, although several of the Villain Protagonists cheerfully self-identify as Evil as well. In an odd twist, the Gods are all canonically Above Good and Evil.
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Character Alignment / int_4a9ecddc	comment	In I, Claudius, Claudius refers to different character types: virtuous men or scoundrels; stony hearts or golden hearts. He gives examples of virtuous men with golden hearts (his old teacher), virtuous men with stony hearts (Cato), scoundrels with stony hearts (one of Caligula's henchmen), and scoundrels with golden hearts (Herod Agrippa).
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Character Alignment / int_4c920c00	comment	Fate of the Clans: All Servants have an In-Universe one on their stats. CÃº Chulainn's is Lawful Neutral. Jeanne saw it changed to Chaotic Evil when he became an Alter.
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Character Alignment / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick, naturally, as it is loosely based on the Dungeons & Dragons world. However, the comic proceeds to completely deconstruct the concept in a realistic manner to create believable characters with interesting motivations. One of the best examples is the juxtaposition of Roy and Miko during No Cure for the Paladin Blues. They're both Lawful Good, but take completely different approaches to their alignment — Miko is a humorless Knight Templar who is fiercly uncompromising when it comes to fighting what she perceives as evil, while Roy is more of a Small Steps Hero who always prioritizes helping the innocent. A non-good example of this is Redcloak, high priest of an evil god who has a plan which will either end with world domination or world destruction. He is a well-developed character with deep personal motivations for his cause, a complex relationship with the lich who killed his brother, and his primary motivation is to change the quality of living for his species (at the expense of any other race). However, several strips give an excellent illustration of alignments coming into conflict: The Lawful Good Celia, Chaotic Good Haley, and Chaotic Evil Belkar encounter a couple of Lawful Evil Hobgoblins. Belkar stabs the Hobgoblin because he just likes killing. Celia is horrified at his random unlawful murder, but Haley justifies it by saying that as they are fighting a war against evil, the unjust killing was, if not necessary, then at least acceptable. However, then they come into contact with a friendly gnome merchant, who Belkar then also stabs. Haley is horrified, but Belkar points out that the gnome's cart and donkey are of great use to the group, and likely to benefit the resistance more than his hobgoblin slaying. Celia then starts commenting on how similar the situation is, and sarcastically suggests that Haley should paint the corpse to look like a Hobgoblin so that Haley can more easily rationalize this second unlawful killing. The endless alignment debates over Vaarsuvius's Deal with the Devil in Don't Split the Party, and whether it was True Neutral as Word of God insists it was. It's gotten to the point where people jokingly start arguing about alignments every time a character moves a muscle. Some fans jokingly argue that Belkar could fall within the bounds of Chaotic Good. In this case, it's more a bad case of Draco in Leather Pants than ambiguity because not only has Rich Burlew gone on record multiple times stating that Belkar is canonically Chaotic Evil, Belkar actively revels in it. Although it has been hinted that he may be shifting to Chaotic Neutral or at the very least is going through Character Development to no longer be a total bad guy, but instead a monster with a few hidden good traits and a bit more restraint if it benefits him. One comic showed that his deepest wish is to to die and end up in the same afterlife as Lord Shojo and pampering Mr. Scruffy together, which will never happen due to their different alignments. His relationship with Mr. Scruffy led him to commit what is possibly his only act of true empathy (not including the times he was magically influenced to feel empathy).
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Character Alignment / int_5b8abe25	comment	Rusty and Co. uses character alignment to humorous means. The Princess, a Monk, is quite Lawful Neutral. After Calamitus, an Evil Sorcerer, charms an innocent audience to attack her, she does not hesitate to knock them all out, contrary to the bad guy's mistaken belief in her being Good. Madeline the Paladin is quite Lawful Good and veers quickly into Lawful Stupid if she's not intercepted into planning before an encounter. Calamitus is a Large Ham, served Chaotic Evil.
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Character Alignment / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: has done character alignment charts twice. The first is an alignment chart that lists the alignments of different kinds of charts. The alignment chart itself is True Neutral. The second, which was released exactly one year later, shows how people of different alignments arrange eggs in a partially filled egg carton.
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Character Alignment / int_63230cb	comment	In the Dragon Ball Z Abridged take on the movie World's Strongest, Kochin claims that their laboratory performs "Evil Science". Dr. Wheelo retorts that they do "Neutral science, at worst!"
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Character Alignment / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder, having started as a fork of D&D 3.5e, used this quite a bit in First Edition (and until mid-2023, Second Edition). It removed a good amount of the "always a specific alignment" from a good number of monsters (as well as from playable races/ancestries), though it still left alignment as an implicit part of the worldbuilding (and unlike 5e, kept alignment as mechanically important for both clerics and champions). Downplayed or averted by Second Edition Remastered, which will see Pathfinder leave alignment behind with the OGL—law vs chaos and holy vs unholy remain major parts of the worldbuilding, but an expansion of the Edicts and Anathema system will be used for "what are my character's values?" instead.
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Character Alignment / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Not only did they come up with the best-known alignment system, but a number of their settings feature gods of different alignments competing for power. Many spells and items will only function on/for characters of a given alignment (moral, ethical, or both). In most settings, a god will accept clerics only of alignments no more than one "step" removed from its own (for example, a Lawful Neutral god, unless otherwise specified, would accept a Lawful Good or Lawful Evil cleric (to complicate matters, there is normally a rule that states that Clerics can only be True Neutral if their god is), but wouldn't accept a Chaotic Neutral cleric), though their lay worshipers can be of any alignment. In earlier editions of the game, only player characters are able to freely choose their alignment; monsters (that is, any non-human or demihuman creature) are born with their specific alignment and can never change. This is due to the influence of the Outer Planes (which are arranged precisely according to the alignment axis) and the gods of the campaign. A goblin, for example, is born evil, and no amount of counseling will ever change it (though magic might). The fact all creatures (including PCs) have invisible "alignment auras" that can be "read" was proof of this. The reason for this is so that good-aligned characters are justified in killing or stealing from most monsters. There are, however, occasional variations — you might meet the rare non-evil goblin, for example, but it would be the result of crossbreeding, magic, etc. — never willing to change. If the many, many conversations on alignment on various boards (oddly only rarely becoming flame wars) are any indication, the rules for alignment are vague. It really doesn't help that the writers don't seem that constant; one iconic character is lawful because they are devoted to something, but another iconic is chaotic because they are devoted to their art. Planescape introduced intermediate alignments between extremes and classifies them as tendencies. For example, you can have Good-leaning Chaotic Neutral, or a Chaotic-leaning Neutral Good, instead of just Chaotic Good. This seems to make the classification of characters who are not exactly in one alignment or another much easier. This far predated Planescape, with various Outer Planes in the 1st Edition Player's Handbook shading into each others' alignments, with, for example, The Nine Hells being described as the plane of "absolute Lawful Evil" while the planes of Acheron and Gehenna on either side being planes of "Lawful Evil Neutrals," the former being essentially "Lawful Lawful Evil" and the latter being "Lawful Evil Evil." Only the Outer Planes along the central axes were of absolute alignment, with the intermediate planes between them having varying degrees of appropriate blending. This even extended into NPCs being described with alignment "tendencies" such as Chaotic Neutral (Good.) Another bit of evidence that suggests that alignment was originally intended to be more "tangible" is the concept of alignment languages. It's not as stupid as it sounds—they're more along the lines of code words and phrases used in secret societies devoted to particular philosophies or religions (such as the Cynics or Pythagoreans) than real, living languages. For example, they're described in the 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide as being useful for such things as conducting philosophical discussions appropriate to the alignment, or identifying impostors (which was why Assassins are able to learn Alignment Languages other than their own) but being pretty useless for, say, buying a loaf of bread at the local market. The D&D 3rd edition sourcebook Complete Scoundrel (which includes options and prestige classes for playing The Trickster or Guile Hero) lists several characters as examples of "scoundrels" of different alignments. Lawful Good: Batman, Dick Tracy, and Indiana Jones. Neutral Good: Zorro and Spider-Man. Chaotic Good: Starbuck (from Battlestar Galactica (2003)), Malcolm Reynolds (from Firefly), and Robin Hood. Lawful Neutral: James Bond, Odysseus, and Sanjuro. True Neutral: Lara Croft, Lucy Westenra (from Dracula), and Han Solo (in his early Star Wars appearance). Chaotic Neutral: Captain Jack Sparrow, Al Swearengen (from the TV series Deadwood), and Snake Plissken (from Escape from New York). Lawful Evil: Boba Fett (of Star Wars) and Magneto. Neutral Evil: Mystique (from X-Men) and Sawyer (of the early seasons of Lost). Chaotic Evil: Carl Denham (from King Kong (2005)) and Riddick (from Pitch Black).
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Character Alignment / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: The game tended to keep to a dichotomy of good vs evil for the most part, but the Order Versus Chaos element is also heavily played and hard to ignore. For one thing, the first game made reference to Shang Tsung corrupting the Shaolin tournament and the furies, shifting the side of the tournament's order alignment to the chaos alignment. Later on, we see Shang Tsung's boss, the Emperor of Outworld, Shao Kahn, who uses his extermination squads to invade and merge other realms using brute, compassionate-free, aggressive force, all while completely ignoring and defying the rules and regulations the Elder Gods commanded to stop this happening. Later on, in the 6th installment Mortal Kombat: Deception, we are presented with the former ruler of Outworld, Onaga the Dragon King. Who still wants to merge the realms much like Shao Kahn, but do so by merging the special kamidogu instead, which would combine the realms automatically, creating complete stability, without the need for violent conquest. This is the game where the Order Versus Chaos dichotomy comes into play. With only a handful of 'good' characters left, either killed or brainwashed to serve as Onaga's pawns, we're left with previously (and new) 'evil' or grey characters teaming up and binding together to fight on the side of chaos to fight for freedom that's threatened by the side of order. Suddenly it's no longer about good vs evil. New realms introduced in the series include Chaosrealm and Orderrealm. Introduced characters that maintain morally grey and/or take no stances on good and evil include a guardsman from the Orderrealm outright stated to want to preserve law and order at all costs, a cleric from the Chaosrealm with a desire to see the world descend into turmoil with a militant obsession to oppose any control (good or bad), a resistance revolutionary from Orderrealm taking a leaf out of the chaos book to fight for freedom in Orderrealm and oppose all regulations and laws, and your standard Wild Card mercenary that takes no sides in the whole ordeal (good, evil, order, or chaos). If order wins, the universe will be destroyed. If chaos wins, you can celebrate for about a minute before you realize you helped your former evil return. You're screwed either way.
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Character Alignment / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress rates regions of land on a "benign-neutral-savage" and a "good-neutral-evil" axis. So, benign good is "serene", while savage evil is "terrifying". (It's... not very good for your dwarves to start in an evil area. Really. For them, at least.) The main difference between savage-evil biomes and savage-good biomes often comes down to little more than whether your dwarves get massacred by rampaging zombies, or by rampaging unicorns.
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Character Alignment / int_72f08b60	comment	Honkai Impact 3rd: While the game itself doesn't have a character alignment, the chibis of the Stigmata characters are each assigned one of the classic D&D-style alignments. For instance, Sirin and Elizabeth Bathory are Chaotic Evil since Sirin is the Herrscher of the Void (the Superpowered Evil Side of the game's main character) and Elizabeth Bathory is based on the historical murderer Elizabeth BÃ¡thory.
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Character Alignment / int_747a18bc	comment	Battle for Wesnoth has the alignments of "Lawful", "Neutral", and "Chaotic". Alignment is decided by class and cannot be changed. It also only affects one thing: how well units fight during certain times of day. "Lawful" characters fight well at day and badly at night, while "Chaotic" characters are the exact opposite. "Neutral" characters are never affected by the time of day. Caves function as a permanent night, and characters with the Illumination skill cause the day/night cycle to act one stage closer to day (night is like dawn/dusk and dawn/dusk are like day).
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Character Alignment / int_7485e16e	comment	Discussed and parodied in Animaniacs (2020), where Yakko at one point insists that he and his siblings can't be pickpockets because "we're Chaotic Good! It would go against our whole Character Alignment!"
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Character Alignment / int_755cbdcf	comment	Precocious has a character alignment page here (made by a character In-Universe). Though, given the cast makeup, it's likely that several of those who weren't listed are to the south end of the axis. Notably, the Alt Text reads: 'This thing needs more evil and/or chaotic rows.' As far as the In-Universe artist? 'You can't classify me!'
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Character Alignment / int_756aa793	comment	Dungeon Crawl Classics assumes three broad alignments: Lawful, Chaotic, and Neutral. There are all kinds of variations within the alignments but Lawful leans towards unity, charity, and the preference for the dominance of mankind(or other mortal races). Chaos is not always evil, but chaotic characters tend towards selfishness and personal power, even if that means unleashing more supernatural forces into the world. Neutral characters either actively seek a balance between Law and Chaos.
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Character Alignment / int_79620aaa	comment	Larisa Korolev from Sandra and Woo is said by Oliver KnÃ¶rzer to be a prime example of the Chaotic Neutral alignment.
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Character Alignment / int_7eceb06d	comment	Even with the improvements in Fable II, the system is still quite simplistic with the only two discernible options being either Lawful Good or Chaotic Evil. While the game's Big Bad is Lawful Evil, the game does not provide many options to exercise an influence over the story or quests based on one's alignment other than not taking the good or evil quests. The citizens of Albion will still hail you as the greatest hero of all time if you save enough slaves, even if you are also the kingdom's biggest slum lord and adulterer.
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Character Alignment / int_7f49dfdb	comment	Games outside the main continuity tend to ditch the alignment system completely. Devil Survivor, despite having Multiple Endings, bases your ending on who you ally with to gain control of Babel and end the lockdown. These six endings are still somewhat analogous to the classic Shin Megami Tensei alignments; Law — Aname (Utopia Justifies the Means) / Atsuro (My Country, Right or Wrong), Neutral — Yuzu (Bystander Syndrome) / Gin (Reset Button), Chaos — Naoya (Rage Against the Heavens) / Kaido (The Social Darwinist).
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Character Alignment / int_7f5bc680	comment	The Fallout series goes with a Karma system. It really is only one scale and doesn't involve the lawful-chaotic scale, only ranging from good to evil. The main relation to the D&D alignment system comes from how the player chooses to gain points in either direction. It is generally easier to become good than evil by killing lots and lots of people for the hell of it, ironically, since many of the karma-inducing characters you can kill easily in the games are evil-aligned. While it is possible to be dog-kicking Chaotic Evil by going into a town and killing guards and civilians, you will most likely alert several higher-leveled guards while doing it, while doing the Lawful Evil approach and subtly plan genocide by detonating live atomic bombs and unleashing mass-killing viruses in the water will comfortably put you on the evil side of the scale without having to shoot a single guard doing it. The good side of the scale tends to be a little more flexible, however, allowing you to both be a trigger-happy nutjob and an agent of various good organizations around while doing it. In Fallout 3, once you do become sufficiently good or evil, agents from the opposite side will start hunting you. Killing the Rangers hunting you because you're evil makes you eviler; killing the Talon Co. mercenaries hunting you because you're good makes you more good. So there's a tipping point at which it becomes easier to keep going in the direction you were heading. That said, unless you're deliberately TRYING for evil (or you undertake a particular quest that has a massive karma penalty), it's slightly easier to become "Good" than it is to become "Evil", and staying neutral is hardest of all since it involves a kind of a balancing act of randomly being an a-hole just enough to keep you from accidentally becoming "too good".
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Character Alignment / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape During the quest "The World Wakes", the player is given a test to become a guardian of Guthix. To pass, you much give one Lawful Good, one Lawful Evil, one Chaotic Good, and one Chaotic Evil answer to any of the four questions you are asked, thereby proving that you are in balance. The various gods and factions of Runescape represent various alignments, although many characters claim to be one alignment but act like another. A recurring theme is how all of the gods and their factions aren't so different. Although Guthix is known as the God of Balance and his followers claim to follow a philosophy of Balance Between Good and Evil and order and chaos, Guthix's true alignment turns out to be closer to Chaotic Good when it is revealed that he hates war and wants mortals to live free of the tyranny of gods, including himself. His followers have been shown to have a wide variety of alignments due to misinterpreting his teaching in various ways. Saradomin is the god of Order. Many of his followers are Lawful Good, but it has been shown that Saradomin is far from this due to his character flaws, but he is self-aware of this, engaging in "Do as I say, not as I do". In the distant past, he was an evil tyrant before he went through a Heel Realization. Saradomin's rival, Zamorak, is the god of Chaos. Many of his followers are Chaotic Evil, but he believes that chaos leads to the betterment of society, so he claims to be Chaotic Good, but is a little bit too extreme. He gets upset about his followers misinterpreting his teaching and committing atrocities for the sake of chaos or for selfish reasons. Armadyl is the god of Justice and Law. Unlike Saradomin, he actually does a good job of following the ideals he expects his followers to follow, but like Saradomin, isn't without his flaws. He wants to achieve peace, but he went about this by starting a war with his rival Bandos. The only major god who is unambiguously and completely evil is Bandos, the Chaotic Evil god of war. His only sympathetic trait is that unlike most of the other major gods, he isn't a hypocrite at all, being completely honest about what he wants and what he believes, and actually does it always. An aversion, Zaros, the god of control, can't really be placed in any alignment because Word of God has stated that he runs on Blue-and-Orange Morality and has very little emotion. He has little interest in achieving any ideals and sees the fighting between the other gods as petty. During the time he ruled over a vast empire, he ruled with a style that could be interpreted as Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral, or Lawful Evil, and his followers (even his most loyal ones) were spread across just about every alignment. He has now given up on ruling over mortals and wants to manipulate events from the shadows. Ultimately, he just wants to accomplish his goal of stopping the Elder Gods, which is a noble cause and will do whatever it takes to accomplish this. The other major factions in the game support the Neutral Good god of peace Seren, the Chaotic Good god of hedonism Marimbo, the Chaotic Evil Trickster Sliske (who is ambiguously a god), and the Cloud Cuckoo Lander god of deliciousness Brassica Prime. The exception is the Godless Faction, which, like Guthix, wants the world to be free of gods, and although their philosophy claims to be Chaotic Good, has also shown some extremism that shows they are similar.
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Character Alignment / int_850c9f7d	comment	Goblin Hollow: Ben explains alignments.
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Character Alignment / int_85c5b823	comment	JoCat: Discussed in "A Crap Guide to D&D [5th Edition] - Alignment". One example he gives on Lawful characters who swear not to fuck your mom: A Lawful Good character refrains from fucking your mom because it's the right thing to do; a Lawful Neutral character will keep their promise to not fuck your mom because they keep their promises even at personal expense; a Lawful Evil character won't fuck your mom, but would fuck your dad instead because you never said anything about your dad being off-limits.
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Character Alignment / int_8ee238c9	comment	In short, there are four major characters in the series that represent each of the four ends of the axis. Lucifer (Chaos), YHVH (Law), Philemon (Good), and Nyarlathotep (Evil).
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Character Alignment / int_959dd815	comment	Professional Wrestling has a bit of an implied alignment system, with all wrestlers being divided into Face, Heel, or Tweener, though this generally isn't acknowledged in Kayfabe — except in Mexican Lucha Libre promotions in the vein of EMLL, some other Spanish regions such as The Dominican Wrestling Federation and Lucha-inspired promotions like CHIKARA, where wrestlers are openly referred to as either "Tecnicos" or "Rudos". Look for media based on North American wrestling not rooted in Lucha culture, such as video games, to use euphemisms to refer to this system (such as "Fan Favorite" for Face and "Rule Breaker" for Heel). When a D20 game was released under WWE's licensing, the alignments were actually Face, Tweener, and Heel. Later games have "Clean" and "Dirty"; apparently no real "tweeners".
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Character Alignment / int_984982f6	comment	Every character in the Ogre Battle series has an alignment, ranging from Lawful to Chaotic, which changes based on their actions during battles. (Characters which attack enemies stronger than themselves, for example, grow more lawful, while characters who hunt down and destroy weaker units [or single-handedly defend liberated cities against hordes of weak enemies which the Empire will mercilessly send to their doom] will grow chaotic.) Alignment affects what classes are available to a particular character. Lawful characters tend to have "light" classes (cleric, knight, angel), while chaotic ones tend to have "dark" classes (wizard, dark knight). Just remember Dark Is Not Evil and Light Is Not Good. In addition, there is another measure available only to the main character which goes by multiple names but is generally known as Reputation. The two are completely separate — you can be utterly evil but still be famous and respected for your strength. Many special characters will only join you if your Reputation is high or low enough to suit their tastes, and it affects your ending.
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Character Alignment / int_9c6ceb95	comment	In Age of Wonders, the races are aligned on the Good-Evil spectrum, with Pure Evil (The Undead), Evil (Dark Elves, Orcs and Goblins), Neutral (Human, Azracs, Lizardmen, Frostlings), Good (Elves, Dwarfs, Halflings), and Pure Good (Highmen).
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Character Alignment / int_9ee1b2b3	comment	Rakenzarn Frontier Story lets you swing between Lawful Good and Chaotic Good. This mostly determines how well you get along with your party members as well as the outcome of certain quests.
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Character Alignment / int_a037ae41	comment	Fate/Zero continues this. Saber is still Lawful Good (obviously), Rider is Neutral Good, Archer (Gilgamesh) is still Chaotic Good, Lancer is Lawful Neutral, Caster is Chaotic Evil, Berserker is Lawful Madnote Lawful Good in actuality, and Assassin is Lawful Evil.
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Character Alignment / int_a2add1d3	comment	Splatoon 2 had an online event called Final Fest: Splatocalypse that focused heavily on the axis of Chaos and Order. During the event, players were able to align themselves with either Chaos or Order, and could then do battle with members of the opposing alignment in an all-out Turf War. In celebration of the event, this piece of official artwork was released showcasing all of the game's characters arranged according to their alignment, and each one's reasoning was discussed in greater detail on the game's social media.
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Character Alignment / int_a57cf54d	comment	Darths & Droids: The comic has remained deliberately vague about the rules and game mechanics of the RPG that the characters are playing. There does appear to be some sort of alignment system: in strip 192, Pete, the resident Munchkin, identifies his Do-Anything Robot character as Chaotic Neutral. And later: Alignment comes up again when the party tries to explain to Corey why it's a problem when Luke uses some paper:
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Character Alignment / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: The game has an elaborate alignment system embodied by its Color Pie that defines them by a general philosophy: White is the color of order, law, and teamwork. Blue is the color of science and logic. Black is the color of self-centeredness, ambition, and pragmatism. Red is the color of emotion, creativity, and freedom. Green is the color of nature, tradition, and growth. There is deliberately no color specifically aligned with good or evil, though some colors get stereotyped as such anyway. White is associated with light and angels and is often thought of as the "good" faction, but its traits can also be directed to oppressive tyranny and complete conformity. Conversely, Black's selfishness and (un)death motifs make it the obvious "evil" color (and even the creators admit that villains tend to be drawn to Black), but it's also the color that values self-improvement and is the most tolerant of others' choices and beliefs (on the grounds of "you do what you want; who am I to judge?"). Things become even more complex since characters can have traits of multiple colors at once. Each color has parts that mesh with the two alongside it and parts that diametrically oppose the two opposite it, though even conflicting colors aren't mutually exclusive. For example, Red-White characters combine White's love of order with Red's frantic energy to create anything from a vicious Knight Templar to a passionate defender of the innocent. Green-Blue characters can do things as insanely impulsive as creating a deadly plague and as coldly rational as exposing it to a statistically representative sample of the population without ever considering morality. The colors were mapped onto the D&D character alignment axes early on in Magic's history; when the creative team was trying to discern the relative personalities of the Ravnican guilds, which are each based on a two-color combination. White was mapped to "Good", Blue to "Lawful" ("a stretch" even to them, especially given that Law is White's thing), Black to "Evil", Red to "Chaotic", and Green to "Neutral". This led to such implausibilities as the Red-Blue Izzet League being dubbed "lawful chaotic" and the Black-White Orzhov Syndicate dubbed "good evil." Eventually, genuine D&D alignments were applied when the franchises were crossed over and D&D released MTG sourcebooks, but they aren't locked to color.
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Character Alignment / int_b4622158	comment	Rakenzarn Tales lets you swing between Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic Good, depending on your choices. This has a big factor in determining who will join your party and how various people will react to you over the course of the game.
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Character Alignment / int_b7c37594	comment	Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid has its dragons sort on Order Versus Chaos with three factions: Chaos, Harmony, and Bystander or Onlooker. There's a nominal war between the Chaos and Harmony factions, although it's not kept very hot (especially in the modern world). Note that even with their focus on chaos, Chaos dragons do still have rules they're supposed to follow.
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Character Alignment / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: The summoned champions each have their own D&D-esque alignment, though the Berserker class is outside it due to lacking rationalitynote It has been explained that the Berserker-class Servants who are fully affected by Mad Enhancement still have an alignment. Fate/stay night's Berserker would be Chaotic Good, and Fate/Zero's Berserker would be Lawful Good. For example, Saber is Lawful Good, Archer is True Neutral, Caster is Neutral Evil, while Gilgamesh and Rider are Chaotic Good. However, how accurately each Servant matches their alignment tends to vary wildly: Saber and Caster match their alignments well, while Rider and especially Gilgamesh have baffled fans since their release, leading to many competing theories that try to give a consistent explanation. Most suggestions will only explain one character, though the theory that alignments are carryovers from a prototype that had vastly different characters using the same identities has gained some support after more information about it was revealed. Another suggestion is that the alignments reflect how the Servants see themselves rather than how an objective assessment would classify them. For example, the theory is that Assassin is classified as Neutral Evil because he sees himself as a villain, but he's actually more like True Neutral. And Gilgamesh thinks of himself as a hero, but he's actually Chaotic Neutral at best. Gilgamesh's alignment also falls into how he's characterized in his original legend, so the alignments of Servants might also take the Heroic Spirit's legend into account as well. And Rider's history (which is very different from how Classical Mythology describes her in real life) could also support a Chaotic Good alignment. Assessment of her during the actual game has to be weighed against the fact that she has a rather vile Master ordering her around, and one of the routes involves her joining the heroes' side. Fate/Zero continues this. Saber is still Lawful Good (obviously), Rider is Neutral Good, Archer (Gilgamesh) is still Chaotic Good, Lancer is Lawful Neutral, Caster is Chaotic Evil, Berserker is Lawful Madnote Lawful Good in actuality, and Assassin is Lawful Evil.
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Character Alignment / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: In The Rant of this comic, Dan provisionally agrees with the claims that Grace would be Neutral Good, Ellen would be Chaotic Good, and Elliot would be Lawful Good.
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Character Alignment / int_bf172077	comment	The five tidal affinities of Torment: Tides of Numenera serve as an alignment system, with the Last Castoff having one or two dominant: The Gold Tide represents charity, compassion, empathy, sacrifice, and other selfless traits. The Indigo Tide encompasses justice, compromise, the greater good, and other communally-oriented traits. The Silver Tide involves admiration, power, fame, and other ambition-related traits. The Red Tide includes passion, emotion, action, pathos, zeal, and other emotional traits. The Blue Tide maps to reason, insight, wisdom, and other intellectual or mystical traits.
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Character Alignment / int_bff01809	type	Character Alignment
Character Alignment / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay had five alignments: Lawful, Good, Neutral, Evil, and Chaotic. Chaotic is essentially inhuman evil. A human who has slid all the way down here has looked at their humanity and said "Nah, I'd rather have X (strength, power, glory, immortality, evil For the Evulz) instead". This may or may not involve selling your soul to the Ruinous Powers of Chaos, who are the prime antagonist in this game and looking to cause The End of the World as We Know It. Evil is human evil. Evil characters are usually willing to lie, cheat, and steal with abandon, and think empathy is something you eat, but still have lines they will not cross, and retain some semblance of humanity. Neutral is most people. Neutral characters are mostly interested in keeping their heads down, going about their business, and trying to survive. While they may not be willing to pick someone's pocket, they'll keep a wallet they find in the street. They might drop a few coins into a beggar's bowl but won't go out of their way to do more. Good is upstanding, moral and willing to take risks to protect the innocent and do the right thing (albeit with a measure of Deliberate Values Dissonance; when the old woman in the forest actually is a baby-eating witch, Burn the Witch! is the moral option). Lawful is what happens when you crank We Help the Helpless up and add in a dose of Good Is Not Nice. Lawful characters value stability, order and permanence above all else, and are more likely than not to denounce The Evils of Free Will. Totalitarian Utilitarians are common as well. Lawful is just as alien to conventional morality as Chaotic.
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Character Alignment / int_c51b8d7a	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, the previous system of alignment is discarded in favour of three specific philosophies: Shijima (which is closest to Law, except that the Knight Templar tendencies take a different form), Musubi (Neutral, focusing on individuality and freedom of choice), and Yosuga (Chaos with a heavy dose of the elitism that Law was previously known for). Also, there's screwing them all and either returning the world to the way it used to be, or leaving the Vortex World the way it is, and in the Maniax edition, True Demon, in which you say "fuck that noise," give up your leftover humanity and join Lucifer's army in order to take out God and keep this stuff from happening over and over again.
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Character Alignment / int_c6992a2	comment	Bittersweet Candy Bowl: The characters run the gamut.
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Character Alignment / int_c6b738c4	comment	For the first two years of Ring of Honor's existence, the code was law and almost every wrestler followed it to some extent, unless they were specifically trying to make a statement or had gone off the deep end. It was retired when enforcement became impractical but returned as an optional suggestion used to assess members of the locker room more than anything else.
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Character Alignment / int_ca48bb5c	comment	Fable had a Good V Evil system, based on your actions in albion. In Fable II, it was extended to something similar to this trope, with Good/Evil being your morality and Corrupt/Pure being how nice you were to others and your own body. (I.E Pure characters treat their own body as a temple, while corrupt characters would drink a gallon of ale every morning).
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Character Alignment / int_d1816c3b	comment	Megami Tensei I & Megami Tensei II feature alignments along the axis of Good-Neutral-Evil.
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Character Alignment / int_d4fa168d	type	Character Alignment
Character Alignment / int_d4fa168d	comment	Fable: Fable had a Good V Evil system, based on your actions in albion. In Fable II, it was extended to something similar to this trope, with Good/Evil being your morality and Corrupt/Pure being how nice you were to others and your own body. (I.E Pure characters treat their own body as a temple, while corrupt characters would drink a gallon of ale every morning). Even with the improvements in Fable II, the system is still quite simplistic with the only two discernible options being either Lawful Good or Chaotic Evil. While the game's Big Bad is Lawful Evil, the game does not provide many options to exercise an influence over the story or quests based on one's alignment other than not taking the good or evil quests. The citizens of Albion will still hail you as the greatest hero of all time if you save enough slaves, even if you are also the kingdom's biggest slum lord and adulterer.
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Character Alignment / int_dbd793bc	type	Character Alignment
Character Alignment / int_dbd793bc	comment	d20 Modern, which is built on the same system that Dungeons & Dragons uses, has allegiances. These can be to Ethical (law or chaos) or moral (good or evil) systems, but can also be to other things such as religious beliefs, political views, or organizations. The Urban Arcana campaign setting converts alignment to allegiances for Always Chaotic Evil creatures from D&D... and in the process enforced it to Always Evil levels even for one race that weren't.Explanation The fiend-descended tieflings in D&D at the time were usually evil, so an adventuring tiefling of non-evil alignment would be nothing really strange, but Urban Arcana instead demanded that tieflings had to begin to play with an allegiance to Evil — several other usually evil races got off lighter by only having it demanded they begin to play with an allegiance to Evil, Chaos, or both.
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Character Alignment / int_dd30f115	comment	The Witcher: Game of Imagination completely ignores traditional alignments and the way how they are organised. Instead, there is an Honor/Reputation/Adventure triangle in which players must put their characters, giving each element a different level of emphasis (so they have always gradual importance for the character, never equal). They are treated more as a compass for the players and a way to judge their actions by the storyteller than any actual mechanics.
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Character Alignment / int_df34e0d7	comment	In Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land all characters have one of three alignments good, neutral, or evil. A character's alignment along with their race determined their personality, affecting how they gain or lose trust with the party leader. Additionally some classes require the character to be of a certain alignment.
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Character Alignment / int_e5ae92df	comment	F.A.T.A.L. has virtually the same system as D&D, only instead of Lawful it's Ethical, and instead of Good it's Moral. So Ethical Moral to Unethical Immoral. Essentially, this being FATAL, it probably comes down to whether you will say "please" and "thank you" when raping someone or not.
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Character Alignment / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS Thaumatology also explores the concept of "ethical magic", and offers spells related to such "ethics" such as Good, Evil, Law, Chaos, or even any other concept a GM might add to a campaign setting.
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Character Alignment / int_e8981561	comment	In the fifth issue of the Adventure Time comic, an alignment chart is given for the odd variants of the main characters in Adventure Time's world. Assuming they translate to the main versions, they are: Lawful Good - Princess Bubblegum, Neutral Good - Finn, Chaotic Good - Jake, Lawful Neutral - Lemongrab, True Neutral - Tree Trunks, Chaotic Neutral - Marceline, Neutral Evil - Ice King, and Chaotic Evil - The Lich. The vacant Lawful Evil space is taken by one-shot villain Me-Mow.
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Character Alignment / int_ecc36299	comment	A rare action game example, Shadow the Hedgehog works off this system quite well. Using branching storylines, the player would choose multiple endings using a system of levels made up of three outcomes: hero, neutral, and dark. The final levels would involve only two outcomes (neither could be neutral), which would decide the boss fought and ultimately the ending. The "path" names are non-canonical; instead, there are 326 (!!!) combinations you could possibly take through the levels, each with their own name. However, each combination must end with one of these endings. It's subverted in the end; Shadow fights the gargoyle-like Black Doom and just saves the world.
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Character Alignment / int_f00d733b	comment	The second edition of the New World of Darkness introduced an updated system with The God-Machine Chronicle. "Integrity" replaces Morality and the only thing that's universal are modifiers, like when protecting a loved one or acting against a vice. These are then applied to character-specific "Breaking Points" that resemble a psychological Trauma Conga Line, rather than medieval ethics.
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Character Alignment / int_f1d185d1	comment	Gilgamesh's alignment also falls into how he's characterized in his original legend, so the alignments of Servants might also take the Heroic Spirit's legend into account as well. And Rider's history (which is very different from how Classical Mythology describes her in real life) could also support a Chaotic Good alignment. Assessment of her during the actual game has to be weighed against the fact that she has a rather vile Master ordering her around, and one of the routes involves her joining the heroes' side.
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Character Alignment / int_f3f382a7	comment	The summoned champions each have their own D&D-esque alignment, though the Berserker class is outside it due to lacking rationalitynote It has been explained that the Berserker-class Servants who are fully affected by Mad Enhancement still have an alignment. Fate/stay night's Berserker would be Chaotic Good, and Fate/Zero's Berserker would be Lawful Good. For example, Saber is Lawful Good, Archer is True Neutral, Caster is Neutral Evil, while Gilgamesh and Rider are Chaotic Good. However, how accurately each Servant matches their alignment tends to vary wildly: Saber and Caster match their alignments well, while Rider and especially Gilgamesh have baffled fans since their release, leading to many competing theories that try to give a consistent explanation. Most suggestions will only explain one character, though the theory that alignments are carryovers from a prototype that had vastly different characters using the same identities has gained some support after more information about it was revealed. Another suggestion is that the alignments reflect how the Servants see themselves rather than how an objective assessment would classify them. For example, the theory is that Assassin is classified as Neutral Evil because he sees himself as a villain, but he's actually more like True Neutral. And Gilgamesh thinks of himself as a hero, but he's actually Chaotic Neutral at best.
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Character Alignment / int_fa5e90fd	comment	In the expansion to City of Heroes called Going Rogue, a morality system is implemented which allows a player to move up and down the good/evil spectrum. As well as having Heroes fall from hero to vigilante to villain, a villain can redeem themselves and become a rogue, and then a fully-fledged hero. There is also a "grey area" of content for new characters set in a Lawful Evil empire in "Another Dimension'' where being Lawful makes you Evil and being Chaotic bends you to Good.
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Character Alignment / int_ff88eca4	comment	In Cuckoo Bird, Beck is explicitly referred to as Chaotic Evil while Aizawa is called Neutral Good "at best".
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Hulks And Horrors (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	Character Alignment
Kings of War (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Lamentations of the Flame Princess (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Ravenloft (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
The Chronicles of Aeres (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
The Witcher: Game of Imagination (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
13th Age (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
World of Synnibarr (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
A Dance with Rogues (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Bastard Bonds (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Diablo II (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Dungeons & Dragons Online (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Eador (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Endless Space (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Fable II (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Nexus War (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Ogre Battle (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Ruined Future (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Scelus' Path (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Shin Megami Tensei II (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Tactics Ogre (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
The Simpsons Game (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
The Temple of Elemental Evil (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Unlimited Adventures (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Wizardry (Video Game) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Lords of Magic / Videogame / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
America's Most Eligible (Visual Novel) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Rising Tides (Visual Novel) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Zodiac Axis (Visual Novel) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
JoCat (Web Animation) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Precocious / Web Comic / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Counter Monkey (Web Video) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
DM of the Rings (Webcomic) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Full Frontal Nerdity (Webcomic) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Genocide Man (Webcomic) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Paradox Space (Webcomic) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Problem Sleuth (Webcomic) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
qxlkbh (Webcomic) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Rock–Paper–Scissors (Webcomic) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Rusty and Co. (Webcomic) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
CMLL (Wrestling) / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment
Clash of the Elements / Fan Fic / int_9d9a875f	type	Character Alignment

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