Talk:Iguva=41/@comment-188.55.199.203-20180330202725/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180812230156

Basically, it's how much tendency they have to kill humans. Shalltear enjoys torturing people before killing them, so her Karma is only -450. Lupus enjoys torturing people MORE than killing them, so her Karma is even less negative.

There are some complications, in that apparently you also get negative Karma for killing things with positive Karma, and vice versa. There are probably racial aspects too.

So, killing a human gives you a base negative Karma, plus some fraction of the negation of the Karma of that human. Kill a human with a lot of negative Karma, and it would count as a positive Karma act. Kill a human with a lot of positive Karma, and it would be as much negative Karma as killing two or more humans.

Killing a demi-human probably has no Karma effect itself, but the Karma of the demihuman still matters, probably with a bonus to positive Karma for the target having negative Karma. Demi-humans probably start out with negative Karma, but not extremely so.

Kill a Heteromorph, and you get positive Karma for the kill, plus the bonus for the negative Karma of the target. There seems to be a nerf to the penalty for the target having positive Karma, killing even a maxed positive Karma Heteromorph is relatively Karma neutral. Many Heteromorphs seem to start off with very or extreme negative Karma. Most Undead seem to have extreme negative Karma at the time they are created. Demons also tend to have extreme negative Karma by default, though there are apparently exceptions.