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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phaedrus" data-source="post: 2512304" data-attributes="member: 8571">IMHO the difficulty with alignment is that the axes are reified. The outer planes are REAL embodiments of Law, Chaos, Good, and Evil. Evil is not a lack of Good, it has real, independent existence. In the same way Chaos is not lack of Law.Given this, the shades of gray and relative morality we are used to in this world don't (necessarily) apply.Demons and Devils ARE evil, Archons ARE good, Modrons ARE lawful, and Slaadi ARE chaotic (and since such beings exemplify alignments, are they capable of redemption/fall?)Detect ____ reveals the reality of the entity's soul (mind? essence?). I suspect the Detect Alignment spells used in the real world would come back blank for most of us, given that we do not embody REAL alignments.Does any of this make sense?</blockquote>