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The concept of character alignment as it is typically viewed comes from the gameDungeons and Dragons, wherein players were able to create their very own characters, customizing a variety of different aspects. One of these aspects is the alignment of the character, which basically indicated whether your character was good or evil and whether he followed the law or not.
The system operated on two axis, one consisting of “Lawful”, “Neutral”, and “Chaotic”, and the other of “Good”, “Neutral”, and “Evil”; you would combine one of the traits of the first axis with one of the traits of the other, thus resulting in alignments such as “Lawful Good” or “Chaotic Evil”, with nine possible alignments in total.
