Faolyn
(she/her)
Possibly the rational was that they were changed to CE to explain why there are no great orc nations--as if it's impossible to have a large chaotic nation. (I saw a post somewhere that described the U.S. as having a Chaotic alignment: each individual state and sometimes county has their own laws, which may or may not be the same as another state or county's laws, the leaders are elected in popularity contests based on how charismatic they are, and there are lots of laws that are, deliberately or accidentally, slanted to benefit one group over another.)As for CE orcs, this is another confusing one. In the 2e Monstrous Manual they are LE, in 3.X they are CE. What changed? Did the orcs somehow undergo a revolution? Was there a resorting? Did the nature of alignment somehow change without this being drawn attention to? Or was it that alignment was such a bad description that one of the major NPC races was put in the wrong category and this was quietly corrected? None of these say good things about alignment.