Nac Mac Feegle
First Post
This is really just a personal preference, but I've never felt myself that the 'Lawful' alignment corresponded to having a strict code of behavior. I'll admit freely that I have a tendency to work on the fly with regards to coming up with source material (i.e. the divine law I'd be working from), and so from an OOC perspective there's a chaotic aspect to Heinrich, but he would never see himself that way (because he, unlike me, has had those rules all along).
The other reason for the emphasis of 'Divine justice' as opposed to the laws of man is that in the short run (as I said in his personality) Heinrich is a pragmatist. He believes that letting the man go will perhaps aid his cause, and he also thinks that turning him over to this law (which Pierce implied would give punishment rather than demanding restitution) would not aid the cause of justice. While he arrives at the same conclusion as (say) Sindr, Heinrich reaches it from a different direction, and has a firm belief that in the long run, justice will prevail.
The other reason for the emphasis of 'Divine justice' as opposed to the laws of man is that in the short run (as I said in his personality) Heinrich is a pragmatist. He believes that letting the man go will perhaps aid his cause, and he also thinks that turning him over to this law (which Pierce implied would give punishment rather than demanding restitution) would not aid the cause of justice. While he arrives at the same conclusion as (say) Sindr, Heinrich reaches it from a different direction, and has a firm belief that in the long run, justice will prevail.
