[Discuss] Re: Too many good guys in BM?

[Dominic]

"Good" and "Evil" is a much too subjective way of deviding characters,
especially since "good" to one person might be "evil" to the next.


Evil or not, nobles are nobles, they are expected to act as such. Slinging
insults are everybody, moaning at every misfourtune, and being vulgar is not
being evil, it's acting like a peasent and is disgraceful. "Evil" chracters
can get power, because that is usually not the main criteria upon which
someone is judged, in my experience. A character can be very vile, yet
extremely loyal too (to those he thinks deserve it).

Evil and good have strongly religious connotations, and therefore you can't
really use them to describe anything or anyone if you want to be objective.
One of my characters, Louis-Joseph, founded The Blood Cult. He believes that
blood sacrifices are "good", that they allow the world to prosper. He would
of course be seen as evil by others who could never condone the sacrifice of
living beings. His means are viewed as "evil", yet his goals are truly
"good", and he would of course see anyone attempting to prevent him of using
his means as "evil". So who'se the evil party?

That being said, I don't even share your view of what is "properly evil".
The way I see evil is by the lack of morals. Someone can be loyal to his
superiors, yet enjoy torturing people for fun, is he "properly evil"?

BM has plenty of cruel, greedy, power-hungry, paranoid, untrustworthy, or
egomaniacal characters, they are usually not too easy to spot though,
because they keep quiet about it because so many people can't seem to keep
OOC knowledge OOC. What you seem to want though, I don't want. Annoying
jerks are not what BM needs more of, we've got enough as-is.
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