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"Your honor, while the most visible acts of the decedent's life tend to trend towards Law, this court has the ability to examine the less obvious facets of Avenger Blai Artigas's life. There are, frankly, too many cases where a seemingly open-and-shut case turned out to have been concealing some underlying but overwhelming tendency for me to have ever bothered counting them, but since this court requires citations, I'll pick, oh, in re Campbell. Now, my argument hinges on three basic considerations: 

Firstly, the man was a weirdo in Infernal Cheliax. He was a cleric of Asmodeus who, given the chance to punish his subordinates however he liked, played chess with them. Now, I'm not claiming--at this time--that chess is inherently Chaotic, there is a time and a place. Clerics of Asmodeus serving at the Worldwound are supposed to make their subordinates terrified of them! His were fond! 

Secondly, I assume everyone here has examined the contents of the decedent's mind? Does that look like an orderly, Lawful mind to you? Tropical storms aren't Lawful either.

Third and finally, the decedent is made of flesh, and from an overwhelming majority of demonically-attended trials, everyone knows that 'flesh' is chaotic evil."

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"Thank you." If this psychopomp got annoyed about bad-faith arguments they'd have issues with more than just the demons. "Nirvana?"

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WAS CHESS CHAOTIC EVIL ALL ALONG? SERIOUSLY?

What does that last part even mean. Is he in fact still made of flesh? Surely his body is in Cheliax somewhere awaiting burial if not already buried? Like in the afterlife there is usually a new body issued but does he have one yet -

All this time he believed Vicar Rey that his feelings did not matter and in retrospect that was probably stupid! He should have checked that with someone! He should have made a list of some kind, of all the things he believed because Asmodeans told him so and that he couldn't cross check with another source, and had it ready to read off to Feliu. That would have been such a good idea and he was so idiotic. What if he was supposed to have extremely specific emotional attitudes about things and the Acts just didn't dwell on it because it didn't fit in metrically!

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"The decedent, Select Blai Artigas, consistently outperformed his culture of origin and the expectations others had of him. While he did, earlier in life, commit many evil acts, I have a handout for everyone graphing the number of evil acts performed by Select Artigas compared to the number of evil acts performed over the relevant lifespans of other Clerics of Asmodeus. While the alignment system is not graded on a local curve--Zon-Kuthon vs. Costel--consistently outperforming one's reference class can still be taken as a mitigating factor for evil acts, Zon-Kuthon vs. Lajariutza, as is coercion, in re Shen Qingqiu, and the consequences--for refusing to enter Asmodean seminary, or for refusing to perform any given evil act once in seminary clearly fall under the definition of coercion defined in Qingqiu. And while we certainly disagree with, well, all, of the Abyss's conclusions, their first point is, in fact, factually relevant, that he was a more merciful superior to his soldiers than was standard practice in Iomedaean Worldwound forts."

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He sucks so much they have to compare him to KUTHITES to get him out of Hell? Wait, is that actually unfair, maybe he has bad information on Kuthites, maybe they're not worse than Asmodeans actually. It's not like he's met one. He has unfairly judged Kuthites and he will get to spend eternity regretting this in Hell but there won't be any Kuthites there to educate him on their religion because those go to Xovaikain. At least there isn't a creepy shadow here arguing to send him there. He has lots of cached cope to pull out about Hell should it prove necessary and absolutely fuckall about Xovaikain.

Wait, wasn't it a mistake to do the chess thing if it's not what the Iomedaeans did? Was he somehow doing something wrong by following the Lastwall handbook - or is "merciful" a bad thing? No, it's the dog saying it - in a completely unhelpfully androgynous voice - also who is Shen Qingqiu? Should he be recognizing all these names? Are they important??

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"Thank you. Axis?"

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