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<blockquote data-quote="Vaxalon" data-source="post: 46598" data-attributes="member: 789">The way I use it, the spell detects the weight of sin on the soul.&nbsp; For those who have dedicated themselves to evil, that is, clerics and the like, that's a lot of sin.&nbsp; For those who *ARE* sin (evil outsiders) that's even more.&nbsp; For your average joe on the street malefactor, that's not so much.The weight of sin on the soul is a product of three things; thoughts, words, and deeds.&nbsp; Evil thoughts, that is, harboring thoughts of doing or saying something evil, are pretty minor and easily overcome by good deeds.&nbsp; Someone whose only sin is that of thought will only register as evil if he never does much that's good.&nbsp; Evil words are more serious, as they involve infecting others with those evil thoughts.&nbsp; Evil deeds are the worst, because they finally make those evil thoughts manifest in the world.As a result, alignment is not so much a measure of capability, of potential, as it is of history.&nbsp; If you do evil things, you become evil.&nbsp; If you do chaotic things, you become chaotic.&nbsp; I may be completely wrong here, but I believe that this is pretty much the mainstream... alignment has to do with what you've done historically rather than what you intend, but what you intend has influence too, as evil intentions are sins of thought.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vaxalon, post: 46598, member: 789"] The way I use it, the spell detects the weight of sin on the soul. For those who have dedicated themselves to evil, that is, clerics and the like, that's a lot of sin. For those who *ARE* sin (evil outsiders) that's even more. For your average joe on the street malefactor, that's not so much. The weight of sin on the soul is a product of three things; thoughts, words, and deeds. Evil thoughts, that is, harboring thoughts of doing or saying something evil, are pretty minor and easily overcome by good deeds. Someone whose only sin is that of thought will only register as evil if he never does much that's good. Evil words are more serious, as they involve infecting others with those evil thoughts. Evil deeds are the worst, because they finally make those evil thoughts manifest in the world. As a result, alignment is not so much a measure of capability, of potential, as it is of history. If you do evil things, you become evil. If you do chaotic things, you become chaotic. I may be completely wrong here, but I believe that this is pretty much the mainstream... alignment has to do with what you've done historically rather than what you intend, but what you intend has influence too, as evil intentions are sins of thought. [/QUOTE]

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