Re: [none]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Ben Wafer wrote:

> Boris Karpa wrote:
> > Scyllabba is a renegade Tanarri.
> > Scyllabba - Tanarri Male
> > Alignment - Chaotic Neutral
> OK, a bit of a problem here. Having a renegade Tanar'ri is certainly
> possible (and indeed with the chaotic nature of Tanar'ri it's likely
> that at any one time there will be lots of renegades), but having a
> chaotic neutral Tanar'ri is completely impossible; any renegades would
> still be CE. This is because Tanar'ri, like Battezu, and Yugoloths, are
> really nothing more than an extension of the appropriate alignment. Most
> creatures have an average alignment that describes how most of the
> members of that species act, but a fiend (no matter what type) is
> defined entirely by its alignment. Whether fiends are created by the
> beliefs of those on the prime material plane or not (which is supposed
> to be a matter of debate by scholars), the fact is that they rigidly
> follow their alignments as if they were. A Tanar'ri can no more change
> its alignment than a human can change from being warm-blooded to being
> cold-blooded.

Nope.  It does happen, from time to time.  Cambions (which *are* Tanar'ri,
despite their half-breed status) can be almost any alignment.  Also, Faces
of Evil (a Plansecape sourcebook) includes a section on the (extremely
rare) fiends who defy their alignments.

Granted they're about as rare as evil Archons or Guardinals or Eladrin,
but it still happens.

Richard Gant
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