Axis

The Axis system is essentially two component measure of a character's outlook. There are two axes, morality and harmony. Morality describes your ethical viewpoint, such as evil or good. Harmony describes your philosophical viewpoint, such as order or chaos.

The player chooses both of these for his character by way of the Axis command. Certain in-game organizations and relationships have axis requirements that a character must meet before they may participate in them. Most notably churches and clans. In addition, some interpersonal relationships are also governed by a character's axis definition, such as bloodoaths, marriage, and even partying.

Terminology

The following terminology exists to describe the different elements of the axis system.

Ethos

The sum and total of the morality and harmony of your mortal soul.

Morality

Good and Evil. Also: morals.

Harmony

Order and Chaos. Also: harmonic.

Axis

Either of the two categories, Morality or Harmony.

Primary Axis

Morality or Harmony. The axis of ethos that your character cares about the most.

Disposition

A single choice: Good, Evil, Order, or Chaos. Clans have this.

Ethos rules

As mentioned above, different ethoi determine what organizations and interpersonal relationships are available to a character.

Partying

You cannot party with anyone whose primary ethos (good, evil, order, or chaos) conflicts with yours.

If someone is primary/morality/good they cannot party with someone who is primary/morality/evil, but they can party with someone who is secondary/morality/evil and primary/harmony/order or chaos.

If someone is primary/harmony/chaos they cannot party with someone who is primary/harmony/order, but they can party with someone who is secondary/harmony/order and primary/morality/good or evil.

If your primary axis is morality/good, you cannot party with anyone primary/evil. You can party with people who are secondary/evil, but that should only be done in limited cases with sufficient RP justification. You should not routinely party (or borg) with characters that conflict with your primary ethos choice (having a different primary axis is fine).

Any time you party with someone whose primary conflicts with your secondary, there is some measure of concern. That should happen infrequently.

Marriage

Spouses cannot conflict with each other's primary choice in either axis, but they do not have to have the same primary axis, and they can conflict with each other's secondary axis.

Good/any harmonic can marry Good/any harmonic Good/any harmonic can marry Any harmonic/good. Good/any harmonic cannot marry someone who has evil as primary or secondary.

Bloodoaths

Bloodoaths must have the same MORALITY and the same HARMONIC, but they can differ on which one is their primary.

For example:

Character 1: primary morality/evil, secondary harmonic/order Character 2: primary harmonic/order, secondary morality/evil

These characters can bloodoath.

Clans

Clans have a DISPOSITION. This is Good, Evil, Order, or Chaos. They do not have primary or secondary ethos.

A clan's disposition is set by the founder during initial clan formation in the Hall of Clans. If any party members forming the clan violate the disposition of the clan, formation fails.

A clan's disposition may be modified by the founder via the clanmanage command.

Clan members may view the clan's disposition via the clanmanage command.

Members of a clan cannot conflict with the clan's disposition in either their morality or their harmonic. It doesn't matter if the conflict is primary or secondary.

If your clan's disposition is GOOD, then members cannot be primary/evil or secondary/evil. They can be order or chaos.

If your clan's disposition is CHAOS, then members cannot be primary/order or secondary/order. They can be good or evil.

Religion

The below chart details the axis requirements for the various deities of the pantheon. If a cell is blank, then there is no requirement of that type.

Deity	Primary Axis	Morality	Harmony	Special
Vishnu	Morality	Good		Cleric must be Order Paladin must be Order Followers encouraged to be Order
Erosia		Good
Tempest	Harmony		Order
Loviatar	Harmony		Order
Gethsemane	Harmony		Chaos
Belphegore	Harmony		Chaos
Set	Morality	Evil		Cleric must be Order Paladin must be Order Followers encouraged to be Order
Bast		Evil
Herastia
Vivoria
Calypso			Chaos	Alchemist may be Order Mage may be Order Psion may be Order Templar may be Order
Silvanus				Followers tend to be good, but not enforced by code.
Mortis

Primitive Representation of Axis Relationships

This is a primitive representation of Axis relationships created by a mortal artist.