Talk:Whisper

The alignment and deity of this NPC are inconsistent and I believe one or both of them are typographical errors. Mystra is listed as a Lawful neutral deity (in the 1st Edition sourcebook) and yet Whisper is supposedly Chaotic evil. Given that Whisper was a Zhentarim agent and was organizing raids and planning on starting his own secret society, it would be more appropriate if his alignment were Lawful evil. As for a patron deity, Bane would be more in line with this character's description. Moviesign 14:24, October 1, 2011 (UTC)

This is simply a case of different editions and the way things were done. 1E was not as 'black and white' as later editions. Alignments have changed over time, for one, but also game philosophy. In 1E most wizards, good or evil, worshiped Mystra. But the 1E Mystra was not the super good paragon of later editions(Mystra was 'lawful' as in magic has rules and 'neutral' as she only cared about magic and nothing else). So sure a modern 4E Whisper would be Lawful Evil and worship Bane, and be a nice cookie cutter carbon copied bad guy, but that's not what 1E was like at all.(Bloodtide 02:28, October 3, 2011 (UTC))


 * Ok, I can see a Chaotic Evil magic user worshiping a Lawful Neutral deity of Magic. I still think his behavior as described in the source material is not consistent with his alignment however. He must be only slightly chaotic ;) I don't have any experience and very little knowledge of 3rd and 4th edition D&D. This seemed to me an inconsistency between two 1E sources. Moviesign 03:35, October 3, 2011 (UTC)