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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 1829942" data-attributes="member: 10825">For one, I don't think that there's ever been such a thing as a warring of nations that would be appropriately described as lawful good on either end...As for clerics worshipping a being antithetical to their alignment, one thing I don't bother with, anyway, is having the clerics alignment aura correspond with the deities, anyway. Don't much like that idea, with undead, clerics or otherwise, really. From there, it doesn't necessarily seem too out there - in certain circumstances. For example, worship to placate certainly seems appropriate. That is, say, the god of the sea is an evil, spiteful thing, so many seaside communities have priests that seek to placate the god (which seems, in general, to make more sense then ones who seek to encourage and spread the gods general destructiveness, at least in their own communities). The priests are ostensibly good whereas the god is still evil. Of course, that doesn't quite mesh with the D&D idea that gods need worship and are empowered by it, but I tend to neglect that a little, anyway. My gods are a bit more independent then that, if not completely. It also depends on what the evil being represents. For example, perhaps the god of the night is evil. A priest might worship the god, not knowing this (depending on what kind of scripture or preaching was presented to the priest), and serve as someone who grants safe passage through the night and sees the god as one whose moon shines down to guide others and to grant sailors direction through the stars. Or something like that. Most deities have some ambiguous aspect to them that could be worshipped by any alignment (war most prominently). So long as the DM's fine with that, it certainly can make sense. The contradicting alignment priest just needs something to latch onto and an alignment appropriate interpretation for that in the priests worship. And so long as the deity itself is fine with that (or somehow incapable of saying otherwise, like with, say, Eberron), then I'd say it can make sense.</blockquote>

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