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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mac Callum" data-source="post: 1447738" data-attributes="member: 17035">You're confusing evil means with evil ends.  Both of the brothers in your story may have good (or lawful) desires and goals, but the act of channeling negative energy itself is the evil part.  Your sword analogy is not appropriate because a sword is made of steel, a natural substance.  A sword is completely neutral, even more so that trees or squirrels.  Negative Energy is not natural, and it is not Positive Energy (the stuff of life) - it's the stuff of vampires, zombies, etc.  Like the spell Create Undead, it's always evil.I made an exception for Wee Jas though.  While truly Evil clerics (like Hextor or Lloth) channel Negative Energy to control undead, but Wee Jas, as the Goddess of Death herself, exerts a special control over undead which is not evil.  But that's just a house rule.</blockquote>