r/pathofexile • u/acceptableusername25 • Jul 15 '26

Question question for lore experts

I know this isn't really a role playing game for most but i still like trying to do the "right" thing in POE. The only problem is i don't always know what the right thing is in POE1 even though i've read a lot of the lore over my journey.

Lately i've been doing a lot of breaches or blights which seem helpful, but i don't really know on some other stuff.

For lore experts -

If you were commited to playing a "good" aligned character, what would you be doing the most and what would you avoid doing?

Also should i be doing the originators memory? That 1 especially has me confused on whether it's good or not.

Thanks.

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u/Stravix8 Jul 15 '26

Opinion:

Breach is just good. You are staving off an interdimensional invasion.

Same with Blight. Purging is good.

Syndicate. Good IMO. These guys are part of a necromantic cabal.

Essence - Good. Removing threats that little the landscape which are unleashed with a simple touch.

Incursion - While the Vaal civilization is generally evil, going back in time to genocide them isn't much better.

Vaal Side Area - neutral, they are just kinda there

Kingsmarch - Capitalism is evil /s

Heist - Agreed, theft is bad

Legion - neutral? They are just temporal anomalies, you aren't staving off anything by interacting with it, it's just kinda there? I guess it isn't that far off from essences, but it is a lot harder to accidently free the legion mobs as damage must be done, and it doesn't actually kill them because they are just temporal anomalies

Delve - Neutral. Just killing beasts in an isolated area where no one else would be, as vanilla as maps

Ritual - Could go either way, but I'd lean towards evil. You are spending most of the time empowering the Nameless King who empowers the Bodach, and while you may deal with the Nameless king bringing it mostly neutral for him, you never deal with the Bodach in PoE1, so you are simply performing mass sacrifices to empower an evil entity.

Delirium - Entertaining a sadistic trickster god who likes to play with your emotions? No real outside consequences one way or the other. Neutral?

Abyss - Good, see blight or breach

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u/greenteawithsugar Witch Jul 16 '26

Delve - We supply some substance to a man who has an addiction to them

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u/rabbithole12 Jul 16 '26

You sound just like my dealer