In the eight seasons that Game of Thrones ran, most of the characters moved through their own arcs as they grew and changed. Some characters ended the show much the same as they started in terms of their moral compass, while some changed so much that people would be hard-pressed to recognize them on the metaphorical street if they ran into them one day.
Here’s the D&D moral alignments of the main characters in the series, taking their whole arc into account.
10 Jon Snow - Lawful Good
As the adopted son of Ned Stark, and in many ways the child that grew up to be most like Ned, there’s no way Jon would turn out to be anything but lawful good.
Doing the right thing- even when it’s painful for him- is always the sticking point in Jon’s personality. He makes choice after choice that brings him pain, but he continues to make what he believes is the most honorable decision to stay true to himself.
9 Daenarys Targaryen - Chaotic Neutral
Dany is a hard woman to put into a category. She changes a lot over the course of the show - she goes from a frightened child terrified of her brother and sold to the Dothraki as a child bride to a powerful ruler in her own right.
Almost from the beginning, though, she’s determined to regain her ancestral throne, and while she cares for those around her and in the cities she takes, she also shows she has no problem doing whatever it takes to reach that goal.
8 Cersei Lannister - Chaotic Evil
Cersei has no goal in the long run other than protecting her children, who are possibly the only people in the world she cares about.
She eventually runs out of children, and it seems like her only goal after that is to punish anyone she feels had anything to do with their deaths - which appears to be everyone she has ever come in contact with. She has no limits when it comes to accomplishing that - unlike Dany, she doesn’t ever care about the bystanders or the common people.
7 Jamie Lannister - Chaotic Neutral
Jaime is a hard one to place. He has possibly one of the most drastic and developed moral arcs throughout the show, although by the end he backslides. In the beginning he only cared about Cersei, and threw a kid off a tower to protect her.
By the middle of the series, he’s grown into a noble person determined to keep a promise, only to backslide, grow honorable once again, backslide a final time, and die. Without a clear or sticking moral compass, chaotic neutral is the only place he can fall.
6 Sansa Stark - Chaotic Good
Sansa learned much of the way she would be forced to live her life from Cersei after going south to King’s Landing, so it isn’t any surprise that she would take up Cersei’s chaotic ways. She still had Ned Stark as a father though, so she falls more on the good side of the scale.
She cares about her family and the people she’s responsible for in Winterfell, she just doesn’t care if the ways she makes sure everyone is taken care of are completely on the up and up.
5 Arya Stark - True Neutral
Just like she’s described as looking like Lyanna, Ned’s long-dead sister, Arya seems to have ended up with more of her personality, too. She has her own kind of honor, but it isn’t the rigid morality of her father. She’s more concerned with her own ends, mostly revenge on the Lannisters and their allies and protecting her sister when she finds her again.
She never goes out of her way to harm people who she feels didn’t harm her first, but she does have it out for some people based on what amount to slights.
4 Tyrion Lannister - Neutral Good
Tywin Lannister’s sister-in-law Genna once told him that Tyrion, not Jaime, was his true son. This was something of a disservice to Tyrion, because unlike his father, he always had the greater good in mind whenever he was finally forced into doing something besides drinking.
He DID have his father’s ability to maneuver whichever way he needed to accomplish his goal, and the willingness to do whatever he can to get it done.
3 Sandor Clegane - True Neutral
The Hound goes from what seems like a pretty bad person on the trip south to King’s Landing to someone who, by the end, is doing his best to help the forces of good stop the ultimate evil.
What became more and more clear, though, is that what he really wanted more than anything else was his brother dead, but after that to just be left alone in peace. There isn’t anyone more neutral than poor Sandor in the whole game.
2 Bran Stark - Neutral Good
As far as we actually know for sure, Bran wanted the end of the White Walker threat and the safety of Westeros from both the threat beyond the Wall and the Lannisters just as much as the rest of the Starks, so he’s obviously one of the good guys.
Since besides a quick trip beyond the wall to learn from the Three-Eyed Raven he doesn’t do much, he falls into the Neutral Good camp by default.
1 Ned Stark - Lawful Good
If there’s anyone who shows just how someone can go too far in their moral scale, it’s Ned. His honor means more to him than anything else, and in the end he paid the price for sticking to his honor, with the deaths of most of his family and years of war.
Ned never made the final realization that Jon had by the very end - sometimes the best and most noble choice isn’t the most lawful.
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