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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5999192" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Having played a Lawful Evil a few times I can tell you this guy feels very familiar.When I play them, they always respect the system of power, presuming that there is one.  They support the system because their own climb to power requires that there be such a system to rule.If there is no system, they'll build one.  If the system doesn't provide the leaders with the type or degree of power desired, then and only then will the LE consider fighting the system.  Usually they'll try to work their way upwards within it though, modifying it as they progress.This is what I'm seeing in this character.  "The System" isn't just his Brotherhood.  It's the social order, including the Nobles at the top and the peasants at the bottom.  He supports the system, and "loves" the officers (though he doesn't respect them) because they are part of that system that he needs to establish his rule.  He needs them.  But his goal is to change that system into one that can rule, and into one that can itself be ruled "with an iron fist".  He prefers a bloodless path, as in, to work his way up from within, but doesn't really care if the path towards his goal is a bloody one, so long as it gets him there.He "loves" his brothers, but expects from them the same kind of blind loyalty he sees in himself.  Ultimately, though, his loyalty is to himself.Daniel Webster once wrote (I may be slightly off on the wording, so forgive me), "In every generation there are those that desire power.  Though they promise to be good masters, they promise to be masters.  And though they mean to rule wisely, they mean to rule."That's this guy.  He feigns support for the poor, the common man, but admits that he really doesn't care for them, other than their valuable place in society:  Below him.He feigns support for the officers, but clearly means to promote himself over them.I rate him as LE, with a relatively weak L, purely because of his contempt for the "greasy" nobility, and his desire to essentially eliminate them from the system.  If The Brotherhood is to rule all, then there's no room in the chain of command for an hereditary nobility.  For his dream to work, they'd need to be eliminated, or neutralized.  They wouldn't accept "neutralized" lightly.</blockquote>

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