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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 484086" data-attributes="member: 2020">Using the medieval modern as a guide, I can give new descriptions to the nine alignments:  Lawful good:    This person believes strictly in upholding the laws of the land, the rightful authority of his lord, the divine right of the King, and the rank and privilege of local clergy.  This person also maintains a strict household in which woman are the chattel of men, children obey their parents, and the honor and morality of the household is stawartly maintained.   Neutral good:  This person believes in a settled, orderly world where each has his proper place.  The King has divine right.  The lords have their fiefdoms.  The peasants, have their obligations.  Religions, have their rightful authority.  Women, have their duty to serve men.  A peaceful, quiet world in which order is maintained, free from the horror and anarchy of war, famine, and plague, is the most desirable situation.  Chaotic good:  This person is a troublemaker, but a troublemaker for just causes.  The rightful King should be in power, not the usurper.  The rightful lord should be in the castle, not a brigand.  Religions should stay within their tenets, not fall into blasphemy.  If it takes war or rebellion to bring this about, so be it.  It is the right thing to do.  Lawful neutral:  This person puts Number One first, and everyone else LAST.  An orderly society is necessary and desirable, for in an orderly society Number One can get ahead, fulfilling his needs and wants within the limits placed by society.  Neutral:  This person also puts Number One first, and everyone else last.  Nothing matters but getting ahead, and satisfying the urges and wants of Number One.  If an orderly society is the way to accomplish that, so be it.  If disorder and war make for better advancement, they will suit just fine.  Chaotic Neutral:  This person puts Number One first, everyone else last, and has decided it's high time to tear apart the current social order, so that he can rise to the top of a new order.  Thus, war, rebellion, rabble-rousing, thievery, and whatever else it takes are the norm for this person, so long as it leads to profit and advancement for him.  Lawful Evil:  This person believes in a social order that eschews the rightful place of the King, the rightful place of the religions, the rightful place of the lords, and the due place of peasants and women.  This person wants to create a horrific world filled with blasphemy, warped minds, unnatural social structures, and destructive thinking.  (A paladin on the world of Gor, for example, would be lawful evil.)  Neutral Evil:  This horrific person is willing to use whatever nefarious means it takes, without any scruples, honor, or ethics whatsoever, to see to it that the rightful order is thrown down, and perversion takes it's place.    There is nothing this person won't stoop to doing, and there is no limit to the vileness he would inflict upon the decent, established order in which men prosper, and have prospered, since the dawn of time.  Chaotic Evil:  This person is a warmonger who will not be satisfied until he has torn down all of society, bringing massacre, famine, and plague upon all decent folk, because he is lost in warped dreams of delusion and madness.  If he gets his way, society will disintegrate and be replaced by anarchy and the deepest perversions of the Lower Planes.</blockquote>

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