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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rabelais" data-source="post: 1624616" data-attributes="member: 2969">Lawful Evil, and I'll tell you whyHe acts without remorse, or pity.  He kills without any regard for mercy.  That's Evil, with a Capital E, and if this message board would allow it, I would underline it three times with red ink.  He wouldn't hesitate to lay down his life for those he holds in high regard.  If he were German and 100 years old, he'd be a Nazi... If he were Italian and 500 years old, he'd be a patron of the arts, and a Medici prince, or maybe a Pope, or perhaps both... the lines were blurry back then...If you really want to give this unmistakably EVIL character depth, don't make him cold and emotionless when he deals with his compatriots.  Make him a father figure, warm and pleasant to be around.  I recently finished a World War II history class, and I discovered something that I didn't expect.  One of the horrors of the Nazi's wasn't that they murdered 11 million people in cold blood... It's that at night they went home to their children and read them bedtime stories. then kissed their wives who loved them good night, and on holiday they would hug their nieces and nephews.  The horror of what happened was created by humans... making them into monsters removes the horror.  What's truely awful is that they were normal people.</blockquote>