Can someone outline what an evil path looks like from a storytelling perspective?
........I mean, what exactly are people wanting to happen? ?
For me the game currently does offer suitable opportunity to role play an evil aligned (for lack of a better word) character I developed during EA.
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She's an evil Warlock whose patron is a servant of Glasya. A corrupt minor official in BG she's a charlatan ultimately working towards gaining enough favour with her patron to avoid ending up as a lemure when her time comes. Hey maybe she'll even get noticed by Glasya herself and really make it big in hell someday. She came into the pact because of getting caught in an embezzlement caper..she really didn't want to end up in prison and then poverty.
So how does she respond to the story? I haven't worked it all out yet as I haven't played this character yet since full release however...
In terms of the Absolute she isn't going to join because she owes her soul to Glasya, as well her patron, Goddess, and obviously the big man himself Asmodeus doesn't want to see the Elder Brain triumph as that would mean no more souls. Likewise she ain't going to agree to turn into a MF because she's not ready to face hell yet and in her view transforming is the end of life. The girl's got plans. When it comes to Raphael well that's interesting. She could easily play him either way but his ambitions seem to suggest Glasya and her dad would like to see him denied ultimately (after being indulged so as to reveal his full plans first of course, devils do love their schemes).
As for the Chosen they might make good temporary allies ultimately they need to fall so as to defeat the absolute (again its about the supply of souls). Chosen of the Dead Three?...pffft meet the new Chosen of Glasya...ya she likes the sound of that.
So in the larger story, it more or less makes sense for her to follow a "heroic" path but its the reasons, motivations, and methods that distinguish it from the "good". She is free to steal, backstab and betray anyone she likes so long as it still furthers the goal of her patron and goddess. One thing she did without fail in EA was to convince Brynna and Andrick to go attack the Owlbear, (why not play god with these idiots to see what it is like to have that power over someone only to send them to their doom and send their souls to her Goddess?) Like wise decisions like the grove depend on what she feels will get her the most credit from her patron. Lot's of dogooders and of course recent escapees of Avernus. Druids as well have a disturbing attitude towards chaos and we know how devils feel about chaos. On the other hand the Goblins are the epitome of chaos and are definitely working for the enemy. Perhaps saving the Grove will provide opportunities to corrupt it later...it's leader certainly seems a bit distracted and would owe us a favour hehe.
Take a situation like Karlach,,,maybe she kills her because she feels that will please Glasya since Karlach is a traitor to hell...on the other hand maybe Glasya would like to embarrass Zariel and Karlach may prove useful in the short term before ultimately betraying her...there are always heirlings after all.
As for the Emperor well he's nothing but a souless squid and don't get her started on that sanctimonious Astral hatchling ....screw 'em both! Meanwhile this moaning self absorbed Wizard might just prove useful at a particular point in time...
You get the point.
So while this character might be MacroHeroic they will certainly have no end of opportunities to be MicroEvil. Both can be true at the same time and both are consistent with her story and "alignment"
