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Message: <blockquote data-quote="touc" data-source="post: 8017467" data-attributes="member: 19270">Not sure if this is where you were headed, but I'll use the Dragonlance setting as an example. Its gods are simply the purest and most basic form of the alignments. In that setting, when mortal spirits were accidentally created, Good, Evil, and Neutral had different philosophies of what should be done with them. After a cosmic fight between the kids broken up by the parental figure Highgod, the gods were allowed to each bestow a gift on the spirits, kinda like the 3 fairies in Sleeping Beauty.Good: gave the spirits life and physical form so they could share control over existence and co-exist with peace and love. Hippies, if you will, but in its purest form sharing and caring.Evil: (boo) gave these spirits hunger and suffering so that through need, the spirits would be enslaved and bound. Purest evil, to remove freedom by gaining power over others. The evil corporation if you will.Neutral: gave them free will to choose good or evil. This was done out of the purest neutral philosophy of curiosity and to observe, and the only way we can keep our voyeuristic ways is for life to move forward. So, not too much good or evil allowed.Finally, everything exists in balance. Too much good led to racial cleansing of "evil" races and eradication of suffering by extreme means such as reading minds of citizens to eliminate crime. Too much evil and existence withered because all evil did was consume the freedom of others to satisfy its eternal hunger.As examples: Chemosh, god of the undead and fatalism. Fatalism is categorized as "evil" because Chemosh is anti-life and wants mortals to give up life as quickly as possible. He'll promise immortality through undeath, which then traps the mortal in eternal servitude. Evil in purest form. We can analyze good in the same way with Majere, god of discipline and mercy. This is categorized as "good" because Majere wants to improve control over one's existence by hard work and austerity, and to discipline one's sharing and caring through merciful means. Good in a pure, cosmic form, to better the self and others instead of subjugating them.</blockquote>

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