Evil (alignment)

Evil is an alignment which represents hostility, egoism, malevolence, and hatred.

Traits

Some traits include:

• Aggressive
• Destructive
• Disparaging
• Merciless
• Self-serving
• Spiteful

More extreme traits include:

• Sadism
• Misanthropy
• Killing for pleasure or profit
• Disdain for living beings
• Psychopathy
• Sociopathy

Fiends, chromatic dragons, drow, duergar, illithids, blackguards, assassins, pale masters, and warlocks are archetypal examples of evil, to various degrees.

Specific alignments

• Lawful evil
• Neutral evil
• Chaotic evil

Opposing alignments

• Good
  • Lawful good
  • Neutral good
  • Chaotic good