In a rescent event, Vrebel had to stand by and not help two Diets in harms way because it would have been againt the law of Rael to intercede.
A good point Script Wrecked and one that I think can be argued on both sides.Lawful/good:they may do things that they are not very comfortable with, if the moral rules require them. Thus, a Lawful Good soldier will be likely to obey the orders of a superior, even if he has concerns about their moral quality, because he has already committed to obedience.
they may do things that they are not very comfortable with, if the moral rules require them.
Thus, a Lawful Good soldier will be likely to obey the orders of a superior, even if he has concerns about their moral quality, because he has already committed to obedience.
Always work within the law.
Neutral/good:They will twist or bend laws, or simply ignore them, when their ideals compell them, but will generally follow "Good" laws without complaint.
I think once a lawful good character starts to nit pick on whether to follow the law because "he thinks" its a bad law or because "he thinks" the govermnent is corrupt then he starts moving toward neutral good and away from lawful.~Willhoff
Um... exactly what Script Wrecked said.Rael is LE, and sanctions only the worship of Sulterio within Prantz. Does that mean that the Lawful Good paladins of Rofirein and Toran and Vorax are going to go into that city and say "huh, well, the law is we have to follow Sulterio here. Oh well, I guess we have to!" Um... no. In fact, they feel the oppression of their faiths is morally wrong, and the oppression of the people there morally wrong and against their beliefs. (I include Rofies in this because in this game paladins have to be LG, even though Rofie is LN)
. . . he's making a mockery of any form of legal system by using it not for the protection and betterment and safety and order of people, but for his own ends and power and manipulation and oppression.
Lawful just doesn't mean you keep your word, most of the good aligned will do so. It means that you adhere to the code of the law also as strictly as anyone else. One of the biggest difference is that A LG compared to a LN or LE, will have remorse to use death sentences, or sentences with corporal punishments compared to the two others. But they will follow the code of the law even then. They deal with their remorses later on.
Rael is a tyrant. He uses The Law to control people, to impose his will upon them, to further his own purposes (Lawful Evil).
Hobbes, having witnessed the atrocities which occurred during the French revolution, saw the breakdown of law and order as something to be feared, because the consequences of that breakdown were civil strife. A man's life in a place where such order were absent would be best described as "Nasty, brutal, and short." Which, come to think of it, describes Rael nicely. But moving onwards.
You may be hard-pressed to convince the honest merchant in his city (who enjoys no theft, no looting, no vandalism, no disadvantaged trade practices, no thugs/standover men knocking on his door, etc, etc) that Rael is a bad guy (dwarf) at all. The merchant probably thinks he's doing a pretty good job. That merchant may think you Toranites with your forgiveness and your soft justice and your ideas of rehabilitation and forgiveness are the really misguided ones. "Maybe that works in your Ivory Temple Milady Paladin but try living that philosophy on the mean streets of Vehl/Katherian/wherever and you and your family won't last long" he might say.