Sentinel Moralities
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GenerateBravery/Defiance
Emotional Strength: Bravery
The character either defies fear or respects it, using it as a guide. Fear means opportunity for action, and bravery comes from taking the risks that others will not.
Emotional Weakness: Defiance
The character mistakes defiance for bravery. This merely serves to cause tension and trouble for others, while generating a false sense of personal satisfaction.
Frugality/Condemnation
Emotional Strength: Frugality
There is strength in living a simple life, not just in eschewing possessions but also in keeping relationships simple, so as not to be distracted from the bigger picture.
Emotional Weakness: Condemnation
The character insists on a standard that no one can bear. This includes the condemnation of the self, punishing oneself for transgressions imagined or actual.
Caution/Fear
Emotional Strength: Caution
The character understands that those caught in a conflict are the most vulnerable. Being reckless only serves those in power, who have the time and resources to develop counter-plans.
Emotional Weakness: Fear
While fear often forces a person into inaction, it can also propel a character into an ill-advised action. Letting fear guide one’s actions means never preparing, never giving forethought.
Wonder/Alienation
Emotional Strength: Wonder
In a city, every day provides a new adventure. This keeps the character connected, always learning, and alive. The city teaches the character to remain open to new experiences, as it surprises daily.
Emotional Weakness: Alienation
With too many people and too many problems, the character gets overwhelmed and withdraws. The city continues on, ignoring any one person. Why not let time take care of the problem?
Compassion/Hatred
Emotional Strength: Compassion
This character takes the time to engage with the troubles of a stranger (and there are so many). This can range from a offering willing ear to providing clothing and other support.
Emotional Weakness: Hatred
Seeing so much suffering causes the character to differentiate between the good people who deserve help and the bad who deserve hate. Having clearly identified the bad, the character can now blame them for the suffering.
Mercy/Weariness
Emotional Strength: Mercy
Transgressions happen all the time. This character has taken a higher path, giving people another chance to be better. Punishment for every transgression only means everyone ends up in chains.
Emotional Weakness: Weariness
Even a saint can burn out. It’s not that people don’t deserve help or a second chance, it’s that there is always another. And another. And another. Soon this tide becomes faceless, and even suffering becomes abstract.
Righteousness/Spite
Emotional Strength: Righteousness
The character takes anger and, instead of suppressing it, uses it to fuel work. Pushing harder allows him to advocate for those who can’t do so for themselves.
Emotional Weakness: Spite
The character deliberately tries to upset or hurt those beneath him. Indulgence in this pettiness comes easily as these individuals deserve contempt.
Pride/Arrogance
Emotional Strength: Pride
This character might take pride in personal accomplishments, but definitely takes pride in the work of others and of the community. When a community succeeds, it justifies the character’s efforts.
Emotional Weakness: Arrogance
By making oneself the pinnacle of achievement, all others fall short. Soon, no one is worthy of the character’s time or consideration.
Modesty/Vanity
Emotional Strength: Modesty
The character eschews credit and thanks. After all, anyone can do this work. This attitude ensures discipline and focus to the task at hand, and thus helping others and reducing suffering.
Emotional Weakness: Vanity
The character turns self-deference into false modesty, denigrating himself and expecting others to bolster his ego. A twisted passive-aggressiveness can emerge, in which the character demands recognition for this modesty.
Trust/Guardedness
Emotional Strength: Trust
This character believes in giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. The good that comes from trusting others builds communities and provides emotional support.
Emotional Weakness: Guardedness
The character has been betrayed one too many times and refuses to allow it to happen again. Why expect better of a person when there is no reward for doing so?
Justice/Cruelty
Emotional Strength: Justice
A strong sense of right and wrong means the character’s focus becomes sharp and intense when a wrong is identified. Correcting a wrong brings a strong sense of satisfaction.
Emotional Weakness: Cruelty
This character not only serves as a selfappointed judge and executioner, but also starts to believe that inflicting pain is a fitting punishment. How else are the wicked supposed to learn?
Malleability/Dogmatic
Emotional Strength: Malleability
This character is morally and ethically flexible and judges situations and others based on relative circumstance for the good of the community, rather than on a strict legal code.
Emotional Weakness: Dogmatic
When pressed or emotionally burned out, this character falls back on rigid edicts instead of context. It takes emotional energy to grasp all points of view, and sometimes there isn’t time.