So a friend of mine plays Dragon Age Origins a lot he plans to get Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition when he gets the money and the two of us were trying to decide what is the main character and all of his/her companions alignment. For those who don't know visit this site to know what I am talking about (http://easydamus.com/alignment.html). For example we agreed that Alistair might be Neutral Good but closer to Lawful Good because he knows what the right thing to do is but his Chantry upbringing keeps him on the Lawful side. Where as in my opinion Morrigan is simply Chaotic Neutral but closer to Good because of her disregard for innocents like when you try to save Redcliffe and she disapproves. So my friend and I want to hear from all of you which is each character's(Main and Companion's) Alignment and why do you see it as that.
The Alignment System and Dragon Age Origins.
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You mean evil? because disregarding innocents isn't good. She also tends to disprove of any good action even when its not to your disadvantage to do it but TBH half the time I think it's because they wanted a counter to approval gains to other characters rather than it actually making sense.Taggart3131 said:
Hmm I don't know. I guess:
Alister-neutral good. Despite the chantry upbringing I don't think he's particularly lawfull.
Leliana-chaotic good (former chaotic neutral)
Wynne-lawful good
Shale-neutral?
Sten-lawful neutral
Zevran-chaotic neutral
Morrigan-chaotic neutral/ evil
Dog-chaotic evil
Although it we put enjoyment of killing as something making a character evil, half of your party is evil.
Just in regards to Demented Sheep's assessments:
Sten murdered a whole family in panic and will if given the chance kill your main character in Haven because he believes that the group is not going the way he wants it. So he's definitely evil. I would put him as lawful evil because given his race and history.
Zevran is certainly evil because he kills people for money.
Dog - I'm not sure it has the capacity to understand morality and the difference between good/evil. Traditionally animals fall under neutral in the D&D alignment system.
One thing about RPGs is that a big part of solving problems is killing a whole lot of people. It always strikes me as a bit odd that you can storm someone's keep, murder 50 guards to get to a particular target you want and sparing them is a good act. That sea of blood of people just doing their jobs doesn't make it so.
Sten murdered a whole family in panic and will if given the chance kill your main character in Haven because he believes that the group is not going the way he wants it. So he's definitely evil. I would put him as lawful evil because given his race and history.
Zevran is certainly evil because he kills people for money.
Dog - I'm not sure it has the capacity to understand morality and the difference between good/evil. Traditionally animals fall under neutral in the D&D alignment system.
One thing about RPGs is that a big part of solving problems is killing a whole lot of people. It always strikes me as a bit odd that you can storm someone's keep, murder 50 guards to get to a particular target you want and sparing them is a good act. That sea of blood of people just doing their jobs doesn't make it so.
Hmm.. I agree with a lot of DementedSheep's assessments, but not all of them.
Wynne - Lawful Good
Alistair - Neutral Good
Leliana - Chaotic Good
Oghren - Chaotic Good
Shale - I don't know Shale well enough to make comment, but my roommate says True Neutral.
Dog - True Neutral
Sten - Lawful Neutral
Zevran - Lawful Neutral
PC - Chaotic Neutral (I think this is most suitable as the PC can be any alignment at any given time depending on the player)
Morrigan - Neutral Evil
Wynne - Lawful Good
Alistair - Neutral Good
Leliana - Chaotic Good
Oghren - Chaotic Good
Shale - I don't know Shale well enough to make comment, but my roommate says True Neutral.
Dog - True Neutral
Sten - Lawful Neutral
Zevran - Lawful Neutral
PC - Chaotic Neutral (I think this is most suitable as the PC can be any alignment at any given time depending on the player)
Morrigan - Neutral Evil
I think Morrigan is Neutral, leaning a bit towards Evil but Neutral... If I had to guess I would go for Chaotic Neutral. Yeah, she may wanted to ignore the Circle problems and leave then to their own fate, wanted to use the Golem making machine despite fully knowing the cost and you can't take her to do any sidequests... ever. (Her aproval rate seems to plumet) But I still think she's neutral. After all she also was in favor of freeing Sten of his horrible fate (Was a bit of asshole about it, but that was because Alistair was a dick about also) same for the blood mage in Redcliffe. So yeah, I say she's neutral.Murahk said:
Then there's Zevran being Lawful Neutral... I don't know if I agree to that, but I don't where else to place him either, so...
Aside from that I pretty much agree with that assessment.
That would be a laugh though if Dog was Chaotic Evil could you imagine if that was true. To me I always saw Sten as Lawful Evil because of his close following of the Qun which is basically convert everyone and kill or enslave those who don't. For Shale I saw as Chaotic Good because while she enjoys personal freedom she will outright leave your group if you decide to keep the Anvil of the Void.
I put Morrigan as Neutral Evil because I always consider a Neutral Evil character to be someone solely interested in self-gain. I think a Neutral Evil character would do good things if they thought it would benefit them and if there's one thing I see Morrigan as, it's self-interested. So, I agree that she isn't "evil" in the traditional sense, but I still think the alignment of Neutral Evil is most appropriate.Diablo2000 said:
I put Zevran as Lawful Neutral because he doesn't appear to be particularly good or evil. He bears you no ill will, but at the same time he was willing to kill you for money. He's just a person that follows the rules of his organisation; if they say kill he kills, if they say save the puppy he saves the puppy.
Feel free to disagree, but those are my justifications.