Thread:Queen Misery/@comment-26209364-20160623080443/@comment-2059440-20160624194603

that kind of character is best described as a very unusual subset of Neutral - these characters are the most common in well-rounded fiction (because all "real" people are neutral in the sense they will do chaotic things, lawful things or a combination of both for whatever reasons they may.. though many try and stay "lawful" it is not an absolute)

if the person believed *very* strongly in balance however then it is still Lawful Neutral as they follow a personal code (or an external religion / philosophy / idealogy) without the inherent desire for good or evil that goes with the other two Lawful types.

the idea of good and evil needing to exist together is actually very common and is dualistic, many believe that good can not exist without evil and that the two are infinite and eternal parts of one another.. monothestic beliefs do not agree with this nor do absolute ethics but in the grand scale of things monothesim and absolute ethics are actually fairly recent ideas.

a lot about alignment relies not so much on what a characters does but rather their reasons for doing it:

chaotic evil = does actions purely for themselves, with no care for others

neutral evil = a mix of lawful evil and chaotic evil, really, though more methodical than chaotic beings they're still not held to keeping laws or codes.

lawful evil  = does actions mainly for themselves but also value a code / belief system and won't cross those lines.

lawful neutral = does actions out of a sense of "duty" or to maintain "order / balance"