@BuckettMonkey To me the problem is it shifts the balance between good and evil quite a bit in favor of evil. It use to be as a player you play for the good side and you face off and defeat evil. Clerics and Paladins being the pinicle of good. In order to play as evil-ish you had to be a warlock or necromancer. Then it's like you're playing evil against evil. In the end it's a sour victory. Now more evil options are up and it feels wrong. Now some want evil to be everything and fight other evil. To me it's kind of depressing. No more new good classes but many new evil ones. While the adversarys only grow darker. A lot less room to be good these days is all i'm trying to say basically. Hell tieflings(literal hellspawn) have the loudest fan base. Again it's whatever. I'll stick to what Iike.
Being neutral included some cruelty. At least in older editions.
So Zariel is plain then. Its just a recent story but she is nothing special. Ok got it. Disappointing. I thought she was more... something. Oh well.
At least in early editions they had a choice to become devils. They have a high rank but never desire to rise. I know they also can freely realm hop which was a huge boon in hell. If an Erinyes chooses to become a devil they transform to something else and lose that ability. I forgot the name of the fiend. I know they are also the only lawyers who wont cheat you in hell due to the angel part of them. They aren't nice and if you run from hell they are the ones most likely to chase you if you manage to leave hell. Don't know if 5e changed any of this. I wouldn't be suprised really.
The more I learn about 5e the less I like.
