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<blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 650159" data-attributes="member: 8704">Re: Re: Debunking the myth there are no &quot;heroes&quot; in &quot;A Song of Ice &amp; Fire&quot;I'd be hard pressed to put a alignment on the Hound from chapter to chapter, he changes so may times in the story that Chaotic Neutral would be the only thing that would fit but he has swung as far as Lawful Evil to Chaotic Good. Chaotic Neutral would be as close as you could get. Arya would probably be chaotic good but then again that would only be a vague description. Stannis is a good example of a character that is so deep and changing that you could never fit him into a alignment class (although he would be lawful, he runs the gauntlet between good, neutral or evil) He would consider himself Lawful Good but many of the other characters would see him as Lawful Evil. At the end of book 3 he probably would be Lawful Neutral swing towards good (slowly) but that is just a guess. Jon Snow- Lawful Good but with Chaotic tendancies. Tyrian-......I have no freaking clue, you want to say good but he is a multiple times over murderer, even if many of them had it comming. Jamie would be Lawful-Chaotic-Neutral-Evil with good tendancies toward the end of book 3. Cersei is definatly Chaotic Evil or Neutral Evil, Tywin is&nbsp; Lawful Evil. Dany...I haven't the slightest clue. All the Starks would generally be good of some sort. All this is pretty generalized They just don't fit into alignments very well.These characters have a depth that is rare in Fantasy books. There is no embodiment of evil, there is no lead hero, as I have already said there is no white hat coyboys and black hat cowboys. They are people making their way through a chaotic world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdavis, post: 650159, member: 8704"] [b]Re: Re: Debunking the myth there are no "heroes" in "A Song of Ice & Fire"[/b] I'd be hard pressed to put a alignment on the Hound from chapter to chapter, he changes so may times in the story that Chaotic Neutral would be the only thing that would fit but he has swung as far as Lawful Evil to Chaotic Good. Chaotic Neutral would be as close as you could get. Arya would probably be chaotic good but then again that would only be a vague description. Stannis is a good example of a character that is so deep and changing that you could never fit him into a alignment class (although he would be lawful, he runs the gauntlet between good, neutral or evil) He would consider himself Lawful Good but many of the other characters would see him as Lawful Evil. At the end of book 3 he probably would be Lawful Neutral swing towards good (slowly) but that is just a guess. Jon Snow- Lawful Good but with Chaotic tendancies. Tyrian-......I have no freaking clue, you want to say good but he is a multiple times over murderer, even if many of them had it comming. Jamie would be Lawful-Chaotic-Neutral-Evil with good tendancies toward the end of book 3. Cersei is definatly Chaotic Evil or Neutral Evil, Tywin is Lawful Evil. Dany...I haven't the slightest clue. All the Starks would generally be good of some sort. All this is pretty generalized They just don't fit into alignments very well. These characters have a depth that is rare in Fantasy books. There is no embodiment of evil, there is no lead hero, as I have already said there is no white hat coyboys and black hat cowboys. They are people making their way through a chaotic world. [/QUOTE]

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