Alignments

## **Alignment**

The alignment of an individual being is affected and affects several different things.

It can be affected by the ***intention*** of the being when they imprint their intent upon reality through thoughts, feelings, and actions. Habitual, recurring minor or shocking, sudden major intentions can influence an individual beings alignment to shift.

The alignment of a being affects such things as what spells they are capable of casting, making evil spells much more difficult for good aligned individuals to cast, and impossible for those that are righteous. Additionally it allows a being to be detected via spells, abilities, powers and effects that search for aligned energy that souls, essence and mana radiate.

## **Base Alignments**

A metaphysical representation of the intent and will of an individual being, organizations or other entity when facing any and all decisions in their existence. Complicated and intricate, there are two axis: Good to Evil, known as the moral axis and Lawful to Chaos, known as the ethical axis.

The basic four alignments they are the easiest way of depicting the intent and intrinsic type of values of the individual thing in question. Because of the varied and often inability to be fully understood, deities and demi-gods that are worshipped are classified this way. These alignments are the base alignments mentioned in the entries below, and are fully affected by both *Detection* spells as well as other alignment based effects.

## **Advanced Alignments**

### **Minor Alignments**

Minor alignments are representative of having traits of a base alignment, however not enough to fully be immersed in it. If an individual has one of these alignments, their alignment only functions for Detection spells or similar effects. Other effects that harm or otherwise affect the individual based on alignment have no effect.

### **Greater Alignments**

Greater alignments are representative of having the traits of a base alignment, however they are taken to an extreme. If an individual has one of these alignments, they are only affected by spells that affect that alignment, unless their other axis is also a greater alignment, in which case they are treated as both. Additionally, those of these alignments are unable to use spells, abilities or other powers from alignments that are counter or opposite of their own.

## **Alignment Examples**

This chart shows how an individual would be affected by various spells or effects. They would detect as the shown alignment, however they would only be affected by alignment affecting spells if the text is capitalized.

## **Alignments and Worship**

A worshipper of a deity(ies) may be with 2 steps of the Base Alignment, or up to 4 steps using any of the Advanced Alignments (Using the Base Alignments) from said deity and still receive powers and spells.

## **Judgement & Alignment**

The alignment of an individual being that has been through the **Judgement** of Yumee has their total imprint that they left upon mortal reality judged against themselves. This process occurs under the guidance of the Elder Goddess within Limbo, though some souls have bypass or escaped it. This process links the soul to the Source Plane best suited to their judgement, sometimes at the displeasure or disagreement of the individual. This usually results in the individual being having to reconcile with their actions, accepting or embracing them or risk being fractured into cairns to be absorbed by the spire.