The chaotic evil also likes to corrupt the innocent and virtuous. Individual freedom and choice is important, and the freedom of other individuals are unimportant if they cannot be held by their own strength and merit. This is the cruel, brutal killer who trusts no one and has no value for anyone or anything that gets in his way. This is the category where the megalomaniacs, and the violent and most despicable characters fall. Since leadership is based on raw power, a leader is likely to be replaced at the first sign of weakness by anyone who can take his position away from him by any method. Such a group can be held together only by a strong leader capable of bullying his underlings into obedience. When chaotic evil characters band together, they are not motivated by a desire to cooperate, but rather to oppose powerful enemies. The strong have the right to take what they want, and the weak are there to be exploited. Laws and governments are the tools of weaklings unable to fend for themselves. They see absolutely nothing wrong with taking whatever they want by whatever means possible. Chaotic evil characters are motivated by the desire for personal gain and pleasure.
These characters are the bane of all that is good and organized. Thus, law and order rends to promote not individuals but groups, and groups suppress individual volition and success. The chaotic evil creature holds that individual freedom and choice is important, and that other individuals and their freedoms are unimportant if they cannot be held by the individuals through their own strength and merit. By promoting chaos and evil, those of this alignment hope to bring themselves to positions of power, glory, and prestige in a system ruled by individual caprice and their own whim. Laws and order, kindness, and good deeds are disdained. The major precepts of this alignment are freedom, randomness, and woe. Typically, chaotic evil people can be made to work together only by force, and their leader lasts only as long as he can thwart attempts to topple or assassinate him.Ĭhaotic evil is sometimes called "demonic" because demons are the epitome of chaotic evil.Ĭhaotic evil beings believe their alignment is the best because it combines self-interest and pure freedom.Ĭhaotic evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents the destruction not only of beauty and life but also of the order on which beauty and life depend. Thankfully, his plans are haphazard, and any groups he joins or forms are poorly organized.
If he is committed to the spread of evil and chaos, he is even worse. If he is simply out for whatever he can get, he is ruthless and brutal. He is hot-tempered, vicious, arbitrarily violent, and unpredictable. A chaotic evil character does whatever his greed, hatred, and lust for destruction drive him to do.