Editing Nasuverse (section)

===A Special Note about Alignment in Nasuverse entries===
Being influenced by tabletop gaming as it is, Alignments also exist in the Nasuverse, though literally in this case for FATE as often this appears in the summoned Servants' actual stats.  Objectively, it's similar to the [[Alignment]] array one would find in D&D, and at first glance represents the Servant's personality and motivations. Hence we have canonically-statted Lawful Good and Chaotic Evil Servants.

In practice however, as shown by Archer Gilgamesh, who was listed as Neutral Good despite being such a prideful and selfish asshole (to be put mildly), it has rightfully caused all amount of [[Skub]] especially among Western [[Neckbeard]]s.  This is because, while Alignments seem to have been ported whole-sale from D&D, they're not ''treated'' the same way. Some Alignments may persist even if a Servant gets extra characterization that runs against it.

It would be best to consider a Servant's alignment entry as a combination of two traits rather than the single entry that D&D players are used to.  So if someone is [[Lawful Good]], they're actually Lawful PLUS Good, and even then these are tendencies rather than rigid guidelines.  

This is the reason, for example, why we have a very personable and downright goofy Edward Teach/Blackbeard -- he has little respect for traditional societal structures (Chaotic), and in many circumstances can be downright violent and ruthless in his methods in getting things done (Evil), he wouldn't go out of his way to cause a ruckus as expected of a "traditional" [[Chaotic Evil]] badguy for shits and giggles as per the Western alignment definition, and in actuality is a chill and cordial goof who would rather spend his free time either gawking at under-aged girls or building gunpla.

Mind you, there are still. characters that play this absolutely straight (like Artoria/Altria and her Knights of the Round Table), however as one Singularity in FGO demonstrates this doesn't necessarily mean that they're NICE about it.

Some argue that the easiest way of squaring this circle is to take the alignments as less an objective description, and more "how the Servant describes ''themselves''". Further, it doesn't take into account assholery. So, Gilgamesh is "Good" because he defines himself as good, while Blackbeard is "Evil" because he's a criminal through and through, but he's a fairly low-key person as long as money or things he needs aren't involved. Whether this is an accurate method of handling Nasu's alignments is a [[Skub|matter of debate]], obviously.

Of course, the franchise also makes fun of the concept, especially during in-game seasonal events (hence the appearance of joke alignments like [[Chaotic Neutral|Chaotic Summer]] or [[True Neutral|Neutral Balanced]])