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In the Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D) fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethical and moral perspective of player characters, non-player characters, and creatures. Most versions of the game feature a system in which players make two choices for characters. One is the character's views on "law" versus "chaos", the other on ...
Good is a broad concept often associated with life, charity, continuity, happiness, love, or justice. Evil is often associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological needs and dignity, destructiveness, and acts of unnecessary or ...
Role-playing games. In some role-playing games (RPGs), alignment is a categorization of the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and societies in the game. Not all role-playing games have such a system, and some narrativist role-players consider such a restriction on their characters' outlook ...
A major dualistic religion stating that good and evil are equally powerful, and that material things are evil. Founded in 210–276 AD by Mani: Condemned by Emperor Theodosius I decree in 382: Thrived between the 3rd and 7th centuries and appears to have died out before the 16th century in southern China. Paulicianism: A Gnostic and dualistic sect
Drow are an evil, murderous, dark-skinned subrace of elves first mentioned in the 1st Edition Monster Manual (1977). [70] [71] [72] The drow Drizzt Do'Urden, the most famous Dungeons & Dragons character, [73] "is commonly presented as the one exception: a hero who overcame his evil culture to become a good person". [71]
Severus Snape is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. In the first five novels, he is the professor of Potions at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the sixth book, he teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts, and in the seventh book he ascends to the position of headmaster before his death.
The School for Good and Evil is a series of fairytale books by Soman Chainani. [ 1] The first novel in the series was published on May 14, 2013. The series is set in a fictional widespread location known as the Endless Woods. The original trilogy (known as The School Years) follows the adventures of best friends Sophie and Agatha at the School ...
The problem of evil is sometimes explained as a consequence of free will. [ 112][ 113] Free will is a source of both good and of evil, since with free will comes the potential for abuse. People with free will make their own decisions to do wrong, states Gregory Boyd, and it is they who make that choice, not God. [ 112]