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Pharama's sense of the material includes an awareness of mortals' attempt to assign alignments to actions and individuals.  One cluster of mortals of Cheliax have been unusually intent on deciphering alignments.  Normally, Pharasma would overlook this, but Nethys has elaborated on a unique miracle she could use to cleanly get the mortal's thoughts on alignment.

So on the first day the convention reconvenes after the riots, a message appears in every convention delegate's mind (and the minds of some additional attendants besides that).  It is accompanied with an unmistakable sense of the divine and a sense of a proper ordering to birth, life, death, and afterlife.

ASSIGN EACH ALIGNMENT (LAWFUL GOOD, NEUTRAL GOOD, CHAOTIC EVIL, LAWFUL EVIL, CHAOTIC GOOD, NEUTRAL EVIL, LAWFUL NEUTRAL, CHAOTIC NEUTRAL, NEUTRAL)^ A RATING ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING SCALE of TIERS: 'S' FOR BEST ALIGNMENTS, 'A' NEXT BEST, AND SO ON WITH 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', AND 'F'. ('F IS FOR THE WORST').  YOU MAY ASSIGN MULTIPLE ALIGNMENTS TO A SINGLE TIER.  YOU MAY SUBDIVIDE AN ALIGNMENT INTO MULTIPLE CATEGORIES ACROSS TIERS.  YOU MAY LEAVE SOME TIER EMPTY.  IF YOU ANSWER TRUTHFULL YOU WILL RECIEVE CREDIT* TOWARDS THE ALIGNMENT(S) YOU RATED 'BEST' AT YOUR TRIAL.  A FEW RELEVANT COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR TIER LIST AND/OR REASONING MAY INCREASE THE CREDIT GRANTED*.

PLEASE CONVEY YOUR TIER LIST (VIA WRITING OR SPEECH) TO AN AVAILABLE EMPOWERED CLERIC OF MINE TO CONVEY IN PRAYER TO ME.

^ THIS ORDERING WAS RANDOMLY GENERATERED AND SHOULD NOT AFFECT YOUR ANSWER

* TERMS AND CONDITIONS MAY APPLY

(Note The symbols appear as alien glyphs analogous to, but not quite like the writing system of Avistani)

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S - Lawful Good (obviously, and I like an axiology I  read arguing for it from simple axioms)

A - Lawful Neutral (I like orderly civilization)

B - Neutral Good, Chaotic Good (I also saw a cool axiology about it, but it was incomplete)

C - True Neutral

D - Chaotic Neutral

E - Lawful Evil (I honestly like civilization more than not-civilization even when it's evil)

F - Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil

He wanted to put the Goods above Lawful Neutral, but he wants credit for Lawful Good more, and he doesn't want to defy a Good.  Likewise with not putting Lawful Evil at the very bottom.

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S - Lawful Neutral (perfect like Irori)

A - Lawful Good (nearly perfect like Irori and Iomedae seems really impressive from her holy book), non-Asmodean and non-Mephistophelian Lawful Evil (like almost Lawful Neutral but a few excess deaths)

B - Chaotic Good (Delegate Nuria is really cool and Delegate Tetula seemed decent also)

C - Neutral (nearly perfect like Irori but boring and not lawful); Neutral Good (it lacks the rigor of Lawful Good or the passion and energy of Chaotic Good)

D - Chaotic Neutral (Delegate Victoria Ferrer seems very hypocritical, it makes me question Calistria's judgement)

E - Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil

F -  Asmodean Lawful Evil (at least don't pretend to be lawful with your treachery)

It's too bad it doesn't count for shifting alignment while you are alive, Thea would like to get more healing sooner.

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Lawful Good: the Integrity of Paladins shows forth the Useful Qualities of this Alignment.
Lawful Neutral: the Integrity of Bankers shows forth the Useful Qualities of this Alignment, though it be a Different Sort of Integrity.
A
Neutral Good: the Alignment of Adorable Talking Animals, which are Frivolous, but their Audacious Barratry before Pharasma the Judge is to their Great Credit.
B
Lawful Evil: the Alignment of Vile Thrunes but also of Skilled Attorneys, having Creditable and Deplorable Qualities with the Former slightly Outweighing.
C
Neutral: the Lack of an Alignment finds its Deserved Place in the Neutral Center.
D
This Tier is left Empty, there being no Alignments to Assign to it.
E
Neutral Evil: it can be Praised only in that it is at the least Not Chaotic.
F
Chaotic Good: what is 'Good' about Wanton Drunkenness?
Chaotic Neutral: the Alignment of Great Fools, Encompassing a Gamut from Inapposite Brandishment of the Nonsensical Gnomish 'Spork' to Lawless Rioting.
Chaotic Evil: as Chaotic Neutral albeit with a Greater Amount of Rioting and Inapposite Shouting regarding Flesh.
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a sense of a proper ordering to birth, life, death, and afterlife.

They're... already in the right order? How would ordering them differently even work? Feather knew Pharasma fought against undeath but she didn't realize she was also responsible for putting death after birth and not the other way around!!

She knows the right answer to the alignments question! They're supposed to go,

Neutral

Good, Evil, Law, Chaos

All double alignments

But maybe that's answering the wrong question? It's not 'what alignments should people be', it's 'what alignments are better'. But better according to whose rules? The five alignments disagree on what's better, so - maybe she should judge each alignment according to its own values? In that case,

S Good, because Nirvana doesn't judge you for not being optimally efficiently good. Everyone who's Good gets to feel good about themselves!

Law, Chaos: valid!

B Neutral (for moral actors): keeping a perfect personal balance is so hard, you judge yourself every time you do something slightly good or evil

F Evil. You're meant to be selfish and have fun, but you go to an Evil afterlife which is no fun at all! Stupid.

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... So, the reward for doing this is 'credit' towards whatever alignment she fellates? Pass. She'll get whatever afterlife she gets. Her concerns are chiefly related to here on the Material, not the Outer Planes, and if she permanently dies she's failed at her primary goals anyway. Since: elven druid. Living forever is unlikely, with how long forever is, but that doesn't mean she won't try for it.

Also, these boxes are fake and utterly arbitrary, and Voshrelka thinks that Pharasma does Herself a disservice by forcing people into arbitrary boxes for the visage of 'order.' People are people, and people are complicated.

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This is...completely absurd on every level...but she supposes she doesn't see any particular downside???

S

Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Good

B

Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral

F

Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil

Obviously moral alignment is the only thing that really matters and systemic alignment is a curiosity except where clerichood makes it a logistical necessity to keep track of, is this in question somehow? She dithers a bit over whether to give moral neutrality a B or a C but decides that Evil is worse than Neutral by more than Neutral is worse than Good. At least if you're Neutral you still channel positive. 

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