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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 832425" data-attributes="member: 2198">Re: Stannis SpoilersStannis pointed his shining sword at his brother.  "I am not without mercy," thundered he who is notoriously without mercy. - A Clash of Kings, pg 479 (US mass-market paperback)Stannis is an extreme case of LN.  All that he cares about are rights, duties, laws.  This one will never bend, Catelyn thinks of him.  If he was a paladin, he would have broken his code as soon as he took on Melisandre as his foremost advisor (consorting with evil and all that) and burned his gods for her - not to mention his willingness to perform even fouler deeds at her command...(Storm of Swords spoilers)...like human sacrifice.  Or in A Clash of Kings, whose shadow is it that Catelyn sees in Renly's tent?  Even if he doesn't know how Melisandre is assassinating those that stand in his way, he knows she's doing it.(End spoilers)Stannis: LN, not a paladin, although he would probably like to think that he is.  But I'll have to see this issue of Dragon myself to see if they explain the choice.</blockquote>