@Red Queen: Good thoughts. And I'm glad you're taking this as the fun thought exercise I meant it to be. A couple counter arguments
First of all, Larian hasn't written any of these characters as paragons of their aligment. All of them have upsides and downsides, and it depends on how much you weigh intention vs action, and good deeds vs. evil deeds. All of them have 'foibles' that make them difficult to put solidly in one alignment.
Asterion: I still see him as NE. Sure he likes having fun (he even says he prefers goofing off in combat to Lae'zel.) On the other hand, he's pretty consistent in his own loose moral code: "Always do what's best for survival and for me." He's willing to make plans and see them through. To me the lawful bits and the chaotic bits kinda even out to neutral evil.
Gale: Just as Wyll has a blind spot for Goblins, Gale has a blind spot for powerful magic. EVERY OTHER THING he does not involving magic shows that he's a good person. He likes it when you help people, doesn't like it when you hurt people, likes it when you help refugees, hates it when you help the maurauding Goblin swarm . . . I think he's basically just a good person who is constantly on the look out for his survival, which requires magic, which again, his blind spot. He's also a guy who likes plans and such, but has done some chaos in his time, so again, I put him at NG.
Shadowheart: I said True Neutral leaning Neutral good. She's a good person who's been stuck with an evil cult and brainwashed by them. But when you give her the option to do what she wants to do, she seems to always go for the good option. Helping the refugees, stopping the shadow druids, etc.
Lae'zel: The only defense I have for Lae'zel is that despite what she says at the beginning . . . she seems to have some respect for life. She promises to help free EVERYONE's tadpoles, not just hers at the creche. She ignores the orders of the superiors to defend her party. She compliments you on your fighting prowess and the abilities of the party. She's also . . . not selfish. Not really. She's selflessly devoting herself to what she's been brainwashed into thinking is the right thing to do. Does that make her good? Well, no, but I don't think it makes her fully evil either. I think she's riding that line between LN and LE.
Wyll: So you put Wyll as somewhere between NG and CN. That puts him at CG, which is where I put him, maybe low CG bordering CN. You guys are right, I forgot that he was willing to torture.
