Talk:Aesgareth/@comment-44645641-20191211194215/@comment-3045005-20191211200233

This is an interesting subject. I'm not sure I agree.

I think a central defining aspect of a chaotic being would be their unpredictability. I know neutral is usually portrayed as sometimes lawful, sometimes chaotic...but I'm not sure that chaos is literally "do the opposite of what a lawful person would do." That's boring and predictable. It also doesn't match the definition of chaos.

Because if that was the case, you could get demons to do anything you like by simply changing the laws. Pass a law that "all demons must visit our fair city at least once and/or through their actions cause various troubles, including but not limited to death, destruction and pestilence," and the demons are all forced to pout and stay away, because otherwise they'd be obeying the law.

In this case, all you'd have to do is make the demon swear to never return the scepter to you, and he would be forced to break that oath and return it.