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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7973691" data-attributes="member: 29398">Doesn't cause much confusion at all.In reverse order: who on death goes to the lower planes?  That's on the gods to sort out; and while the character's still alive they can punt on the decision, and after the character dies (permanently) who cares anyway.Who detects as evil is certainly affected by the viewpoint of the caster, as one of several factors with past actions, absolute (i.e. universal) alignment, religion or deity followed, and so forth being some others.  An Orc Shaman casting detect evil might pull some of the PCs but not all of the Orcs around her (as in her view they're not evil), while a PC Cleric in the adventuring party casting detect evil might pull all the Orcs but none of the adventurers.Meanwhile a non-involved third party might find everyone present is evil; the Orcs for their past raiding and the PCs for their actions while adventuring. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>