Lawful represents order, structure, rigidity, stasis, and predictability.
Traits[]
Some traits include:
- Objectivity
- Honesty
- Completing contracts
- Following a code of honor
- Accepting authority
- Adhering to tradition
- Willingly following a routine, protocol, doctrine or instructions
- Willingly accepting and obeying local laws (e.g. carrying identity papers)
More extreme traits include:
- Intolerance
- Prejudice
- Coldness
- Fatalism
- Blind obedience to laws and authorities
- Demanding and enforcing deference from subordinates
- Completing contracts to the letter even when the outcome is not what the other party expected
- Peaching even the slightest offenses to the authorities
- Polarized (black-and-white) thinking
Dwarves, bladelings, devils, modrons, archons, monks, paladins, and law enforcement are archetypal examples of lawful, to various degrees.