Chapter 2 Port Llast Bounty Hunt and the alignment penalty

[Ragnarøk]

I don't get it, why killing the half Orc Yesgar during the Bounty Hunt quest earns your character an alignment shift towards evil (-7 points). Normally I wouldn't care, but since my char is a Paladin it actually matters.

According to the in-game dialogues, I found out, that Yesgar convinced Shaldrissa to go with him by making her drunk. Her father claims, she was kidnapped, which isn't entirely true. But the half Orc took advantage of the naivety of the young woman.

Yesgar himself reveals after a successful speech/convincing check that he gave her that much alcohol, so that she agreed to everything he proposed to her.
Shaldrissa tells your character after being freed, how she was mistreated and beaten by Yesgar and he most likely raped her (“she doesn’t want to talk about it further, but says: “he did things to me…”). She is clearly ashamed.

So if you decide to kill Yesgar after all , as some kind of quick frontier justice, you get an alignment shift towards evil. I really don’t get this and the strange moral compass of the original developers.

First of all, this half Orc is an escaped prisoner and criminal , secondly he hid in a cave with a band of aggressive Orcs – most likely up for no good, planning to pillage and plunder as Orcs do . Thirdly at least he took advantage of the naivety of Shaldrissa (her going with him deliberately or not deliberately in the first place doesn’t matter at this point), made her drunk, beat her and raped her. She also is held as a captive in a cell.

Therefore Yesgar is an evil character for me and not letting him go, but punishing him on the spot is a good deed as a Paladin. The alignment penalty bothers me, because I think it's very much undeserved.

[allenayen96]

I built a Paladin and he did NOT get an alignment shift towards evil. He is still 85 Lawful/100 Good.