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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7915404" data-attributes="member: 6683613"><p>Fanatics with codes of ethics but "end justifies the means" attitudes are common examples of LN or LE villains in sources that discuss the topic, like the Book of Exalted Deeds. This is especially the case when that attitude leads them to take innocent lives. There is nothing culturally relative about a dead body; from any perspective it remains dead. Now, Nemo has a conscience and is tortured by his own fanaticism -- he, at least, does not see a good person once he looks in the mirror. His code is in conflict between "fight the oppressors" and "thou shalt not kill". You might say that this is what makes him good after all, but I think it makes him something far more important in a literary character: three-dimensional. Surely goodness does not have a monopoly on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>