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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9395553" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Two alignment ideas I've considered for making "blue and orange" morality characters:Beauty vs UtilityandPrestige vs SecrecySo, for example, the Borg represent pure, unconstrained Utility. They don't care about anything except function, that's why their vessels are all either neat geometric solids (e.g. spheres, cubes) or funky purpose-built designs. They project their power and explicitly request obedience, with everything else being dismissed as "irrelevant." Conversely, faerie nobility (lords/ladies/etc.) are almost always sticklers for some form of aesthetics and may go absolutely apoplectic about unbeautiful things, or things out of place, or "ugly" materials etc.In my Jewel of the Desert game, Prestige and Secrecy are the twin poles of a more political alignment, particularly favored by the genie nobility of Jinnistan. They put extreme emphasis on saving face, preserving public image, playing the game of thrones, never showing (political) weakness, etc. The party has been drawn once or twice into Jinnistani political machinations, and both times ended up being used, but not in a way that was meaningfully harmful to them. Quite the opposite. In fact, they were both times rewarded by the person who used them, because they had served as most excellent tools for the task, and to treat such useful envoys as disposable would be a loss of face, not a gain. Ensuring that such envoys go on to do greater things reflects better on them, so it behooves them to pay their debts and treat their "employees" well. The prestige of one's servants, even former servants, enhances one's own prestige.On the flipside, other factions value secrecy to such an extent because...well, they're either subversive criminals or terrorists or secret cults or the like. Can't really do any of that stuff if people know about you, right? So they work to have no widely-known prestige or reputation whatsoever--to be genuinely unknown, unseen. And, in general, groups that favor the one side tend to really dislike the other, though not always. The Lawful Secretive Raven-Shadow assassin-cult despises the Chaotic Secretive Shadow Druids. for example, but sees the Lawful Prestigious Jinnistani nobility as a dangerous but controllable, or at least managable, force.</blockquote>

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