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    Default What alignment is Oona?

    She loves and respect her animal servants, likes to fight but do not show sadism or extreme bloodlust, quite polite, serves her community although she works by herself...

    she reminds me of Therkla. I would go for True Neutral.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conradine View Post
    She loves and respect her animal servants,
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    likes to fight but do not show sadism or extreme bloodlust,
    Hilgya.

    quite polite, serves her community although she works by herself...
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    she reminds me of Therkla. I would go for True Neutral.
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    I'll go with Stupid Evil.

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    Neutral Evil. I dont know what else to call someone who is willing to kill someone they don't know anything about because they can't think of a compelling reason not to kill them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Precure View Post
    I'll go with Stupid Evil.
    Oona is not stupid: where does this come from? She has a somewhat stilted mode of expression to give her a unique voice, just as Bandana does.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
    Oona is not stupid: where does this come from? She has a somewhat stilted mode of expression to give her a unique voice, just as Bandana does.
    Bandana has a unique voice?

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    I don't think we've seen enough of Oona to rule out most alignments.
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    Bandana has a unique voice?
    Yeah, she certainly has a particular idiolect. She doesn't speak the same way as the rest of the crew. Her y'all is the most obvious feature of her idiolect, but there are others.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Worldsong View Post
    Bandana has a unique voice?
    Yes she does. Her verbal style was commented upon in detail (how she uses phrases and a kind of blue collar expressive style); I was subjected to this examination of her dialogue while reading the overblown arguments during the Andi vs Bandana "argument" as the the battle with the frost giants went on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hroşila View Post
    I don't think we've seen enough of Oona to rule out most alignments.

    Yeah, she certainly has a particular idiolect. She doesn't speak the same way as the rest of the crew. Her y'all is the most obvious feature of her idiolect, but there are others.
    Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
    Yes she does. Her verbal style was commented upon in detail (how she uses phrases and a kind of blue collar expressive style); I was subjected to this examination of her dialogue while reading the overblown arguments during the Andi vs Bandana "argument" as the the battle with the frost giants went on.
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    Oh, I see hroşila said it more clearly than I can. Thanks!
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    Lawful (affable) Evil, rather clearly: strong opinions on the necessity for strict hierarchy, and has no problem with murdering people she does not know as a treat for a friend.

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    Oona is not stupid: where does this come from?
    She was hunting humans because she misunderstood MitD
    She's following Redcloak's order to kill two clerics because hesaid please and there is not a good reason not to kill them.

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    Bandana has a unique voice?

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    I'd go with Neutral Evil. Or whatever the evil version of Beastlands is. Where naughty dogs go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Precure View Post
    She was hunting humans because she misunderstood MitD
    She's following Redcloak's order to kill two clerics because hesaid please and there is not a good reason not to kill them.
    That's more Evil than stupid.

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    I'd go with Neutral Evil. Or whatever the evil version of Beastlands is. Where naughty dogs go.
    I think that's Chaotic Evil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Worldsong View Post
    That's more Evil than stupid.
    Agreed. To quote Pratchett, "Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things." That Oona considers Paladins to be an appropriate treat for a friend's pet (which, lets not forget, that's what she thinks MitD is) is effectively treating people as things. Same thing for not needing a good reason to attack the dwarves, although admittedly "being in her tribe's grounds uninvited attacking a guest" is probably Neutral in and of itself.

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    She's evil, she's just not villainous. I can imagine her doing any number of horrible things with little or no prompting, but she wouldn't set out looking to change the world or ambitiously reach for power.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
    Oona is not stupid: where does this come from? She has a somewhat stilted mode of expression to give her a unique voice, just as Bandana does.
    I think its pretty clear that her dialect isn't her being stupid, she just strikes me as having an accent (to me it seems russian for some reason).

    Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
    Yes she does. Her verbal style was commented upon in detail (how she uses phrases and a kind of blue collar expressive style); I was subjected to this examination of her dialogue while reading the overblown arguments during the Andi vs Bandana "argument" as the the battle with the frost giants went on.
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    Oh, I see hroşila said it more clearly than I can. Thanks!
    Oh I pity you if that was a major part of the conversation around Andi v Bandana, I'm so glad I haven't read many threads from that era.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
    "being in her tribe's grounds uninvited attacking a guest" is probably Neutral in and of itself.
    What about "being in tribe's ground uninvited and being attacked by a guest"?
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    I think its pretty clear that her dialect isn't her being stupid, she just strikes me as having an accent (to me it seems russian for some reason).
    Sounds to me like she's just not quite fluent in common, and falls back on her native tongue's sentence structure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Schroeswald View Post
    I think its pretty clear that her dialect isn't her being stupid, she just strikes me as having an accent (to me it seems russian for some reason).
    Because she is dropping her articles and speaking of herself in third person, being like stereotypical Russia accent when is speaking English.

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    I'm going to vote"Lawful Evil, leaning towards Lawful Neutral," assuming that she's generally been honest in her interactions.

    Oona generally believes in hierarchies as preferable to chaos. She is pro-community and believes in her cultural code, and doesn't have much respect for the traditions of others that don't match those of her community. She thinks it's acceptable to murder sentient beings in order to do something nice for her in-group, which is both evil and community-oriented, and she's willing to kill people based on someone in the in-group asking her nicely, which is the same.
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    Oh I pity you if that was a major part of the conversation around Andi v Bandana, I'm so glad I haven't read many threads from that era.
    It's kind of a Scorpion and Turtle situation whenever you read the main discussion thread. You knew what it was before you started.
    (From what I remember the only thread where Bandanas accent was called out was her big speech when Andis back was turned; it got kinda ugly on the thread. Most of the anti-Andi rhetoric was along the lines of 'why are we having another pointless subplot alongside another pointless subplot after endless debate at the Godsmoot, why can't we just kill Xykon already')

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    Quote Originally Posted by Riftwolf View Post
    It's kind of a Scorpion and Turtle situation whenever you read the main discussion thread. You knew what it was before you started.
    (From what I remember the only thread where Bandanas accent was called out was her big speech when Andis back was turned; it got kinda ugly on the thread. Most of the anti-Andi rhetoric was along the lines of 'why are we having another pointless subplot alongside another pointless subplot after endless debate at the Godsmoot, why can't we just kill Xykon already')
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    She has a thick accent, and she is clearly much happier talking to animals and monsters than to people. If she were on earth, she’d probably be a crazy person running a big cat sanctuary.

    But... I’m pretty sure she’s not stupid.

    What is her class, anyhow? Ranger with beast master prestige class? Some kind of specialized Druid? Is she a spell caster?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dion View Post
    What is her class, anyhow? Ranger with beast master prestige class? Some kind of specialized Druid? Is she a spell caster?
    Such questions are best answered over at C&LG, which has identified Oona as a Beast Heart Adept based on what she was riding when hunting Lien and O-Chul. I hope that means more to you than it does to me.

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    Hard to say.

    Would need to see how alignment spells interact with her to really nail that down. She's certainly not Good, and I don't really see her being Chaotic, but for that remaining square of alignments (LN/TN/LE/NE) I don't really know enough about her to decide.
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    I don't think we've seen enough of Oona to rule out most alignments.
    I've got to line up behind this position. Anything further is really just projecting, at this point.

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    She was hunting humans because she misunderstood MitD
    She's following Redcloak's order to kill two clerics because hesaid please and there is not a good reason not to kill them.
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    That's more Evil than stupid.
    Frankly, if a monster which is supposed to usual devour people as snacks (I can go for a black dragon, for example, but arguably MiTD kind is considered quite more violent, dangerous and overall "worse") something maybe looking like this


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