Different names for alignment?

Eponymous-Archon · Post by **Eponymous-Archon** » August 16th, 2004, 4:15 pm

MadMax wrote:I think Lawful and Chaotic are the best. It makes sense, and is easy to understand.

Except, as has been pointed out, they really don't mean what is meant in Wesnoth.

Perhaps a simple "prefers day/night" would do it.

autolycus · Post by **autolycus** » August 16th, 2004, 4:19 pm

Eponymous-Archon wrote:Perhaps a simple "prefers day/night" would do it.

Or even just Sun/Moon. The Sun/Moon duality has fewer obvious negative/positive connotations than Light/Dark, Law/Chaos etc.

wobbegong · Post by **wobbegong** » August 16th, 2004, 4:50 pm

autolycus wrote:
Eponymous-Archon wrote:Perhaps a simple "prefers day/night" would do it.
Or even just Sun/Moon. The Sun/Moon duality has fewer obvious negative/positive connotations than Light/Dark, Law/Chaos etc.

sun/moon/earth <-> day/night/neutral

works quite well as a differentiation : given that Elves & Dwarves are the main 'neutral' races and both (in different ways, one through forest the other through mountains) are linked to the earth rather than the sun or the moon...

solar/lunar and something else (terran doesn't seem quite right to me... to many Star Trek/SF connotations, perhaps...) would make a three way naming convention without bringing alignment/morality into things...

I'll have to dig out some big books of words and try to come up with a third... (solar/lunar/gaian?)

Eponymous-Archon · Post by **Eponymous-Archon** » August 16th, 2004, 4:52 pm

But it isn't quite "moon" that's relevant here, just not sun, or night.

Leave the third as nothing.

autolycus · Post by **autolycus** » August 16th, 2004, 6:58 pm

I guess one advantage of sun/moon is that the little time-of-day graphic shows those, so it is intuitively simple to grasp. At the same time, sun/moon do have some archetypal/mythic associations which make them good candidates. Sun/moon/shadow is ok too, for lawful/chaotic/neutral.

Eponymous-Archon · Post by **Eponymous-Archon** » August 16th, 2004, 7:08 pm

Well, if we do just graphics, sun and moon seem good to me.

Post by **Dave** » August 17th, 2004, 12:20 am

I think that lawful/neutral/chaotic work just fine.

Wesnoth is not the real world, and day and night work differently in Wesnoth.

In Wesnoth, forces of chaos influence the world during the night, and forces of law influence the world during the day. Thus lawful/neutral/chaotic are appropriate, since it describes the type of forces that one fights best under the influence of.

David