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Divs are lawful evil, which seems weird to me, as I find that the lore suggests NE. This idea is backed by the fact that Ahriman, their god, is NE, and they used to be NE in first edition. Does anyone know why this detail was changed?
Maybe it's to do with many of them having behaviours that are hard coded into their beings? Aghashes have to destroy beautiful things, pairakas are literally emotionally allergic to the colour red, and Sepids are incapable of telling the truth - having an inflexible code of behaviour/morality is a very lawful thing.
I do think it is good to have some fiends whose alignments aren't necessarily locked into being the same alignment as the plane they inhabit.
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I strongly suspect it's a copy/paste error, and will run it through the errata process.
(For context: Back in the earlier days of 1st Edition Pathfinder, but not SO early that we were still worried that everyone would hate us for not sticking with D&D, we looked at bringing in additional fiend groups for all three alignments so that we'd have some categories and new mythological ground to cover that weren't completely steeped in D&D tradition. We brought in qlippoth for chaotic evil, asuras for lawful evil, and divs were our neutral evil fiends. So for that reason alone they should stay neutral evil... never mind the fact that we've got nearly a decade of story content about them as neutral evil in Golairon!)
Thanks.