over 5 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by killer89_

I'm generally not a fan of the D&D esque alignment charts. It's too simple and narrow focused. It assumes a general sense of morality, that we are all broadly one thing or another, when morality wise we're not all black and white, nor even shades of grey, but a vibrant kaleidoscope of colours.

On the loosest level this seems about right. Though "dark" and "light" as moral concepts is a tad confusing. Dark and Light are both elements that are part of the world of RuneScape and are as vital as one another for a balanced world.

But our gods are a bit more nuanced than this chart suggests and will deviate from their "alignment" in the right circumstances.

Also where's Brassica Prime? Bestest god.

over 5 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by TheFaithfulZarosian

"Also where's Brassica Prime? Bestest god."

As a loyal adeptus astartes would say; "Cease Your Heresy!"

DELICIOUSNESS IS POWER! NUTRITION IS TRUTH!

over 5 years ago - /u/JagexJack - Direct link

I don't think this is very accurate. There are two main problems I can see:

1) Replacing good and evil with light and dark doesn't fix the problem that most of our gods are not strictly good or evil.

2) Whatever chart you can come up with, the gods aren't neatly going to fit into the nine segments. Some gods are separated morally, some by methodolody, some by ideology. For example, Zaros and Saradomin are quite similar in their method (control the whole world) but their motivations are quite different. At the same time Saradomin and Armadyl are quite similar in their motivation (make the world a better place) but their methods are quite different. You could build a "selfish/selfless", "control/liberty" chart out of that, but then Bandos (selfish control) would be in the same box as Zaros.

over 5 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by michael7050

Tbh, at least in this case, 'Dark' and 'Light' are a heck of a lot more accurate than 'Good' and 'Evil'

Eh both are wishy washy.

Good and Evil are totally subjective terms anyway.