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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9128603" data-attributes="member: 29398">I take the opposite view: every deity is intrinsically tied to and defined by its alignment and expects its Clerics to follow suit.  Non-Cleric followers and worshippers have much more latitude, such that if a deity is, say, CG then its Clerics are also expected to be CG but it might draw followers and worshippers from any G or any C or even pure N, depending on other factors. Put another way, a typical deity cares far more about what its Clerics do than what its lay followers do.The exceptions are a very few cultures that have become pretty much monotheistic, in which case acceptance as a Cleric is based on culture rather than alignment.  Orcs and Arctic Elves are two such in my setting: Gruumsh kills off anyone else who even thinks about becoming a deity of Orcs thus he's very intentionally made himself the only in-culture option they have, and to be a Cleric to him the only qualification is that you are an Orc; he'll soon enough tell you what to do and from there if your alignment wasn't Evil before, it is now.  With Arctic Elves alignment is immaterial: if you're an Arctic Elf of any alignment you can become a Cleric to their one deity Tapoketa, and Tapoketa has exactly one domain: Arctic Elves.</blockquote>