Talk:Kyouhukou/@comment-31.223.40.231-20180210002947/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180701054824

The Karma system of Yggdrasil isn't really about "Good" and "Evil" in some abstract conceptual sense, but rather about alignment with or against humanoid interests.

In a sense, we might call it extremely poorly designed, but keeping in mind that the mythology on which Yggdrasil draws is heavily inspired by historical religions, it actually makes perfect sense that it is set up that way (even though "Karma" comes from one of the religions that don't acknowledge human supremacy to any great degree...sort of a bit of irony, probably intentional).

One of the major literary themes of Overlord is examining what really counts as "Good" and "Evil" when you reject such simpleminded and chauvinistic double standards (the origin story of Nine's Own Goal, the clan which became Ainz Ooal Gown, is a good example, and clearly more complicated than just "Heteromorphs are people too").

Kyouhukou is probably neutral because he will feed his familiars demi-humans or heteromorphs quite as readily as humans...in other words, because by the standards of AOG he is considerably MORE horrifying than, say, Solution, who has a particular delight in devouring humans. And that irony is probably deliberate not only on the part of Maruyama but also Luci*fer.