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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 840530" data-attributes="member: 1331">About the necromancer who summons celestial hawks:In my view of alignment, casting any spell with a [Good] descriptor will put a small amount of good karma on the caster's balance. If he casts it enough, it will begin to "white out" some of the evil deeds recorded in his aura. Eventually he will stop showing up on detect evil. I could conceive of a situation where someone used this to disguise his aura, if he's expecting magical investigation.However, since the necromancer has probably done lots of actual evil acts (murder, theft, oppression, etc.) in his life, it would take lots of good karma to overwrite that. If all he did was summon celestial hawks with all his spell slots, every day, it might take months or years to balance his aura and detect as neutral. Why bother, when a Cloak Of Obscuring Alignment is so cheap?(Calling powerful celestials would work more quickly, but it'd also bring a lot of risk. If you're an evil nasty dark necromancer guy, a failed planar binding is just as dangerous on a solar as on a pit fiend.)Someone mentioned the redemption angle, which IMO is a red herring. If the necro wants to start doing good deeds instead of evil deeds, then he just does it. Just as a paladin could decide to burn down a village, a BBEG necro could decide to volunteer at the local soup kitchen. He'll still have an evil alignment, at least until he's done enough good to "white out" the evil from his aura, but what's wrong with that? It's good roleplaying fodder. And used properly in a story, it'll make those PC paladins think twice before slaughtering anyone who detects as evil.</blockquote>

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