Talk:New World/@comment-77.98.238.169-20180809203316/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180810011046

The reason Vijar is relatively neutral is because much of the killing he's done so far has been other demi-humans, and particularly strong enemies. While his motives for doing this might be seen as 'relatively honorable', it's clear that a pattern of seeking to fight strong enemies doesn't count for much unless you fight a lot of demi-humans (or heteromorphs) with negative karma, otherwise Remedios wouldn't be surprised by his lack of negative karma.

Everything we've seen so far that comes from Yggdrasil seems to follow the Yggdrasil mechanics more than it diverges. Karma is a purely Yggdrasil mechanic that affects how effective some spells, skills, and attacks are. It is determined by actions, not intent, because the Yggdrasil mechanics would have had zero capacity to measure intent.

Remedios hasn't become a cursed knight or whatever because she hasn't started killing humans, particularly humans with positive Karma. Her Karma will stay positive and even increase in the course of her hunting down and killing demi-humans, regardless of her motives.