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Thread: What good alignment is Thor?
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2019-07-11, 06:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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No they have not. They have been sorted unfairly. People are in peril, save them. Any Good person would do that. The question is how: All other things being equal, LG goes for the Lawful option, CG goes for the Chaotic method, and NG goes for whichever method will accomplish the most Good the most effectively. A NG person follows only Good: If a law is Good, they follow it. If a law is bad, they break it. They’ll do Good by Lawful OR Chaotic, whichever suits the situation.
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2019-07-11, 07:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Neutral, maybe. Freeing Neutral souls from an Evil plane for them to go to a Neutral one might be seen as a service for the greater good. Evils, not, that is just taking a stance in the Law-Chaos axis to allow freeloaders switch evil plane.
It would be different if the act of freeing the souls would give them a chance for redemption. But it does not. Their lot is already set.
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I'm actually not entirely clear on what it's for, since it seems to come up very rarely in these arguments. But something that both a something-Good and presumably Chaotic Evil deity are doing for the same reason (that is to say, save the world from ending and an unstable despot from taking over) seems like a decent candidate for the label. That they're using obstructive bureaucracy to do it is because it's the best tool they have at the moment, not because of morality.
Granted, I'm really not sure what the difference is between Neutral Good and Chaotic Good, so it's difficult to decide which of those Thor is.Last edited by Morty; 2019-07-11 at 07:10 AM.
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2019-07-11, 07:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Neutral is often difficult to pin down since the only way to reliably define Neutral in either axis would be to say that Good, Evil, Lawful and Chaotic are all reserved for extremists. In which case Neutral would immediately hold the majority of people.
And of course there's the issue that the alignment system just isn't perfect and you can't easily put anyone inside a block of defined characteristics.
Even the afterlives acknowledge this issue since they made afterlives for people who sit between Neutral and something else. For example the Beastlands, which is the afterlife for people who sit between Chaotic Good and Neutral Good.
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2019-07-11, 07:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Unfairly? According to what definition of "Fair"? There was a Pact written before the creation of the world. The souls gone to Hel have been sorted to that domain Lawfuly.
A CG would care for all souls, just to promote Chaos over Law. But a NG would only care for the Good ones, as NG doesn't promotes Chaos over Law, only Good over Evil.
See, that's the reason why people don't see any difference betwen NG and CG. All I am attempting to do in this thread is give a reason for a NG alignment to exist at all.
And that reason is:
- NG will promote Good in spite of Law or Chaos.
- NG will not take a stance in a Law-Chaos issue if there is no Good involved.
And there is no Good involved in the decission to which Evil plane send an Evil soul to. There is a Law-Chaos one, though. A LG would say "the soul belong to Hel, according to Law ". A CG would say "the soul belong to Abyss, just to flip the finger at Law". The NG would say "I do not bother" and thus not move.
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2019-07-11, 07:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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A Lawful God could also argue that the Bet is making a mess of the sorting system for souls by taking a good portion of souls out of the system through some arbitrary ruling between two/three gods, and getting as many souls away from Hel is the Lawful thing to do by putting those souls back into the official sorting system everybody else seems to be using.
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Cares for all the living to live a good life and have their souls go to a Good Afterlife. But those are already dead. And the evil ones are going to evil planes. Why would a Good Deity care about what particular Evil plane an evil soul goes for torture? Other than Law-Chaos reasons, for which a Neutral holds no concern.
He would if the damned one were Evil, because the soul ended up were it deserved, and according to the Laws.
Yes, he would solve it in differently. For example, building up an ever tighter dwarven society to ensure no one dies "dishonorably", instead of having to spit in the letter and the spirit of the Laws to save them at the last minute.
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Which is why a LG deity would have insisted on reviewing every single soul instead of accepting a general pardon, like Thor accepted. Bonus points as it would have better seved the purpose of keeping Hel distracted. He doesn't saves as many good souls, but keeps Hel busy and keeps respect for Law enforced. A fine compromise between Law and Greater Good.
A NG would have accepted general pardon for the Good Souls, but would have insisted on reviewing the Neutrals and most definitelly the Evil ones, as it would have served the Greater Good (freeing good souls, keeping Hel distracted) and also would have been a fine compromise between Law and Chaos.
But Thor is CG so he takes on the chance of fliping the finger on the Deal even if it means he cannot keep Hel distracted for long enough, relying instead on his CE brother to get the job done.
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There's also the fact that Good people generally tend to do nice things for everyone, not just other Good people. It's all well and good to stick your neck out for the heroes and saints, but it's even better to not be picky and stick your neck out for everyone, not just the people you like. Besides, at this point, they're all dead; their ability to do any further Good or Evil is sharply limited to whatever they say to whoever's in earshot. There's no real danger associated with saving someone who's Evil, only the risk of upsetting someone's sensibilities about what people deserve.
Thankfully, Thor's Chaotic Good, and apparently of the firm belief that "Words aren't as important as people." He doesn't care that some of these dwarves "deserve" to rot in Helheim forever. They're people, and every last one of them needs a fair shot at the afterlife, and one way or another, Thor's gonna make sure they get it.
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2019-07-11, 04:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thor does not know which souls are Good and which ones are Evil. The souls who went to Hel were never reviewed, like Roy was, because their destination got diverted. Thus, their alignment was never determined. Thus, he saves all of them, so they may go on to whatever afterlife they would normally face. He does not have the ability to ONLY save the Good/Neutral ones, because their Alignment was never found. And, in my opion, any Good being would agree that eveyr creature at least deserves the opportunity to get a Good afterlife, rather then being condemned solely for the method of death.
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Not entirely true. Each soul that lands in one of the evil planes will end up empowering evil on a cosmic scale, even if their individual contribution is a tiny drop in an ocean. Further, new devils and demons need to come from somewhere and (to my knowledge) in the default cosmology of DND they come from souls who have eventually been tortured so long they lose their original sense of self and become a lemure, which can then climb the fiendish hierarchy.
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Roy would Detect as Lawful Good, but he could have easily have been sorted into True Neutral or Neutral Good had his Deva been less forgiving. The review, presumably, exists for a reason.
Oh, trust me, my desire to save people from eternal torment they may or maynot deserve has NOTHING to do with D&D metaphysics. To use the quote any Good creature would do well to live by, "I would rather ten guilty men go free then one innocent man be punished". Which is actually even more applicable here, because they're not going free: They're getting reviewed, as would be normal, had they not had the unfortunate luck to be born Dwarven. Even a Lawful creature should be able to recognize that such a Law is unjust, and should be abolished. Part of being Lawful GOOD is being able to recognize Laws that serve Evil.Last edited by woweedd; 2019-07-11 at 05:09 PM.
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From Deities & Demigods, IIRC, a God can cast any spell he can grant to his clerics. Possibly at will and as many times as he/she wants. I'd have to check.
EDIT: Ok, they need a level of a divine casting class, and they burn spell slots like a cleric spontaneously converting their spells to Cure/Inflict spells.
So if Thor had no divine casting class in him, he couldn't cast all the spells he could grant.Last edited by The MunchKING; 2019-07-11 at 06:50 PM.
"Besides, you know the saying: Kill one, and you are a murderer. Kill millions, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." -- Fishman
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The documentation may just be a prop to help communicate "yes I do in fact seriously intend to stand here and talk about this at length," given the twin facts that 1) Thor remembers every person who's ever worshipped him, and 2) Thor and Loki aren't doing legitimate bureaucracy, they're running a con.
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"Besides, you know the saying: Kill one, and you are a murderer. Kill millions, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." -- Fishman
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2019-07-12, 01:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Maybe they only researched the moment of death since the Bet makes everything else irrelevant. Or maybe individual gods are not qualified to make those calls and the review system is something done by experts.
That said I do have to point out that we've reached the point in the discussion where both sides are more addressing semantics and details rather than the actual point. That's usually a sign that we're not going to get anywhere.
So to summarize things, we have one camp saying that a Good god would try to pull all dwarven souls away from Hell so they can all be sent to the correct afterlife even if it's an Evil afterlife, and we've got a camp saying that a Good god would want to save the Good and Neutral dwarves but wouldn't find the Evil dwarven souls important since either way they'll be stuck in an Evil afterlife. Given that there's many different ways to be a Good person I say both camps are valid perspectives and it's a matter of what you personally prefer.
EDIT: as for which perspective is more valid from a Chaotic point of view, that's kind of muddied by the fact that there's many different reasons why Thor could prefer one over the other. In a vacuum, with no other motives present, I'd agree that not caring which Evil afterlife and Evil soul is stuck in is more Chaotic than finding it important everyone gets put through the organized judgement system. Of course for it to qualify as a Chaotic Good perspective you'd have to be absolutely sure that it's an Evil soul you're leaving to its fate and we don't know for sure whether Thor knows so beyond that point we're left to speculate unless Rich enlightens us on whether Thor knows for a fact which alignment each soul has.Last edited by Worldsong; 2019-07-12 at 01:32 AM.
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