Pharasma's Alignment

[Raef13]

Why is Pharasma's alignment True Neutral? Given her job description as judge she seems very Lawful Neutral. Also how the Boneyard/River of Souls is pretty much nothing but a trip to the DMV or a super bureaucrats office with the long lines and the planar petitioners. I get the neutrality of death but Pharasma just seems very lawful to me. Especially that all things die when their time comes. Any who break this are going against the laws of the universe. This even got addressed in the novel "The Redemption Engine" in how the Aeons considered her too lawful so they had to throw a little chaos into the mix. Am I missing something? Maybe there is some balance in her midwife aspect?

[LazarX]

Pharasma is True Neutral because she has no particular axe to grind for Law, Chaos, Good, or Evil, just like the Universe itself. If anything her main concern is balance. Players are simply are so conscious of her death aspect, they tend to forget about her portfolio involving birth as well.

Is she perfectly neutral? Obviously not, but even the gods have their flaws.

[James Jacobs]

Because being lawful biases you against chaos, and Pharasma isn't biased against anything in that way.

As for her being perfectly neutral... more so than anything else, to the extent that what seems like her not being neutral is just an error in our judgement in interpreting things that we as imperfect mortals are incapable of perceiving without flaw or inaccuracy. ;-P