If he copied and pasted , he ' d get Abdulaziz right . <| sep |> You ' ve touched upon the problem with alignment in the game generally . Alignment is ultimately based on the judgment of the DM , however , the alignment people write on a character sheet , more often than not , is treated as prescriptive i . e . my character MUST act this way instead of descriptive i . e . my character tries to act this way but might mess up from time to time . So it is an internal belief of the character , or at least , a hint to the player about how they want to play the character . I dislike alignment other than as a rough guideline to help a player inform how they will ropleplay the character . So the character sheet alignment would be theoretically in the judgement of the character . In the world at large , NPCs react to characters based upon what they know about the character and the character ' s personality and actions . Thus the alignment that the external world sees would be based upon the character ' s actions and the society . e . g . a LG paladin from a society that practices slavery might not see anything inherently wrong about slavery and thus legitimately still be LG to themselves , even if someone from outside that culture would see it as say , LE . In the game rules , they ' ve done away with most alignment based game mechanics , meaning that alignment should just be a role playing aid for most , although there are still a few items that will say things like must be used by a good aligned character , which is when the DM has to make a judgment call .