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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 7991834" data-attributes="member: 205">Yea, I'd roughly agree with this.  There are 3 pretty obvious mappings of colors to alignments:White = LGRed = CNBlack = NEBlue and Green are a little tougher, I feel, because the Law-Chaos axis in D&D maps to at least 3 different conflicts, and those conflicts are mixed between Blue and Green.Reason vs Passion Stasis(or order) vs ChangeHierarchy vs IndependenceBlue and Red both inherit an independent streak from Black, which White-Green is utterly opposed to.  Blue is utterly opposed to acting on emotion, which conflicts with Red-Green.  And White-Blue is invested in maintaining the status quo and following rules, which is strictly opposed to red.Honestly, I find Blue to be the hardest color to slot into D&D's alignment system.  Green slots in roughly round the CG side of the spectrum; if it had to place in the Great Wheel, it would be in the Beastlands/Happy Hunting Grounds.  White slots into Celestia or Arcadia (depending on how positive you feel about White), Black is Hades/Grey Waste, or possibly Carceri.  But I don't where to put Blue, I don't think it really fits with the themes of Mechanus.  I think Acheron is probably close to Blue, but only if you see Acheron as a giant realm of war simulations on which to conduct test after test of magical theory.</blockquote>