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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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"Best" in what sense? Anyone short of an archmage who's trying to get anything they want is going to end up Evil, but no matter how foregone a conclusion it might be he doesn't see any reason to seek out additional "credit" towards Evil. He fills out the tier list with his best guess of the Crown-approved ranking.

S - Lawful Good 

A - Lawful Neutral

B - Neutral Good

C - True Neutral

D - Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral

E - Lawful Evil

F - Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil

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Normally it’s a bad idea to think for more than a moment about all this. Worry about forever later, enjoy life now. But, if it’s the biggest god around telling him to do it, then fine. Deep thinking time. 

S - Chaotic Evil (Do what you want, if you’re strong enough to do it. Everyone is this alignment until someone beats one of the others into him.)

A - Chaotic Good (Caydenites are always fun at parties. If you need someone to break the worldwound treaty just to smuggle you some good stuff, it’s these guys.)

B - Lawful Good (It’s like lawful evil in that it’s an army out to conquer everything everywhere. It’s different because they don’t hurt you but they don’t let you have any fun. Maybe that’s worth the trade, if you’re weak, but if you protect yourself then you get more out of Chaotic Evil. )

C - Lawful Evil (The same core as chaotic evil, but the weak know their place and do what they’re told. It sounds nice at first, until they turn things around and the strong have to do what the weak say. You can’t do anything about that because they’re in charge, well now they’re not in charge anymore, so there.) 

D - Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Neutral, Neutral Evil (Do they even do anything?)

E - Neutral Neutral (Alignment for anyone too weak to have a real one.) 

F - Neutral Good (At least when hell turns you into a worm, it’s because they hate you and know making you small and weak and pathetic hurts. They understand that it’s a bad thing and do it to whoever pisses them off. Neutral Good, though, they do it to everyone. Make you spend so long as a scared little bird that, even after they let you be a person again, you’re still a scared bird inside. For the rest of forever, you look at the pathetic and small and think you’re one of them, protect them instead of doing what you want. Worst of all, they’re trying to do that to everyone. Hell lets some people be devils and have fun, they’d rather the whole universe be a fluffy nest full of tiny birds.)

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S: Chaotic Good, Neutral Good (she doesn't terminally value being Chaotic! what matters is not letting Law get in the way of Good) 

A: Lawful Good (sometimes gets stuck doing Lawful things instead of Good things, but still Good) 

B: Chaotic Neutral, True Neutral (she dithered for a while about whether to include Lawful Neutral here) 

C: Lawful Neutral (but eventually concluded that she didn't like the thing where Lawful Neutral people act like that by being Lawful they're being Good) 

E: Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil (at least they mostly weren't trying to systematically make things as bad as possible, this lets some freedom and good in through the cracks) 

F: Lawful Evil (the absolute worst) 

Maybe she's being a bit unfair to Lawfulness and it really all does depend on Goodness, but that's how she's feeling about it this morning. Maybe she'd answer differently a different time. 

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S: Neutral Good (You should pick the best bits of Law and Chaos. (Altough Sarenites and Shelynites are naive.))
A: Lawful Good, Chaotic Good (Sometimes stupidly constrained, sometimes lacks planning and organization.)
B: True Neutral, Lawful Neutral (Pharasmins and Abadarians are annoying but at least they do useful things sometimes. And they are decent to work with if you negotiate. Usually they stay out of the way if you have a moral disagreement.)
C: Chaotic Neutral (They do manage to get in the way.)
D: Neutral Evil (It's bad but often they are just normal people who happen to be selfish.)
E: Chaotic Evil (Demon cultists. Murderers. Slave raiders.)
F: Lawful Evil (Asmodeans and Kuthonites. Some of the better flavours (like useful Hellknights), might deserve E or D tier but Asmo and ZK have poisoned the well.)

Actually now thinking about it, where are all the competent-and-driven Neutral Evil people... guess Norgorbers whole shtick is not getting caught.

 

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