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sponge268 12-18-05, 04:54 PM	I'm coming up with this new character for a campiagn. My DM cleared it so I am making a fey'ri from Monsters of Faerun (this isn't a FR game though.) I want it to be of a NG alignment, but also an assassin so I have a few questions: Whats a good background for a good-aligned half devil? Or a neutral, at least? How could you justify an assassin being good, or, again, should I just settle on a neutral alignment for this character? I'm considering the name Azrael...a little bit of irony for the characters race.
Araciel 12-18-05, 08:57 PM	the alignment restriction for an assassin is "any evil"...someone who kills for money, in my definition can in NO WAY be good aligned....perhaps neutral, but never good....anyway, if your dm is allowing this than thats fine. the way i run my games, any race can be any alignment, especially since if it is an intelligent creature it can make its own choices in how to live its life. that being said, a fey'ri would TEND toward evil because of its ancestral and perhaps societal background, but could edge toward good due to any number of reasons. perhaps it was more neutral to begin with and saw so many good deeds and had been saved by good characters from certain death even though it was (mostly) an evil creature, and would gladly have soaked its weapons in their blood just because it thought they were ugly or annoying. that could have made it see the true power and reason for good in the world.
Demonwolf 12-18-05, 10:18 PM	Hmm... When you do a good-aligned tiefling, you have to get psychological if you want it to be credible. You have to think what makes the character evil, and then spin it around to make it good. For example, orcs are evil because of their chaotic self-serving natures. Insert orc in evil empire as leader of resistance- chaotic alignment helps, and the only way to be self-serving when trying to overthrow an evil empire is to be good. So what makes fey'ri evil? The obvious one is demonic blood. Demons, according to the MM, are the pinnacle of ferocity and will recklessly attack others. Ferocity = anger. So priority one is to redirect the character's anger back at a) evil, b) his own race or c) both. This is fairly easy. Just have the character traumatized severely by his own race or by evil as a child, and unlike other fey'ri, have him realize that he was. Next, fey'ri are raised exclusively among their own kind and are incredibly racists, considering non-fey'ri life expendable, so for a good fey'ri to exist, he must be capable of empathizing with other races and considering them equals. Find a way to expose the character to another race at a young age and connecting with them, perhaps growing to love them somehow. Two possibilities come to mind. The first involves the fact that fey'ri are constantly trying to raise their population by finding sun elves to breed with. The fey'ri in question could be raised by his sun elf slave, secretly his parent, or could be the child of a paladin who was imprisoned and violated by fey'ri before she escaped. The second is that the character is the son of a scholar and is raised to learn the stories, histories and myths of all the different races, and thereby learns to empathize with them. When he sees the atrocities being commited by his own race...
Rowan_Whispercloak 12-19-05, 06:04 AM	You could also like at Michael Moorcock's Elric character for more some ideas. minus the powerful empire the personality of the Meliboune people seem to fit very well with the fey'ri