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Revision as of 18:39, 16 April 2016

There are no travellers in these lands, only servants of the Dark Tower or the White!

–Faramir, son of Denethor, The Two Towers


Alignment is a core feature of the mod, a system by which you gain or lose standing among the different factions of Middle-earth.

Various actions performed in Middle-earth will raise or lower your player's alignment with various factions, and this will influence the things you are able to do in the mod - such as interaction with NPCs, access to faction-specific crafting tables, ability to trade and hire units, making enemies flee in the presence of you on a high enough negative alignment, and eventually the availability of quests.

The Alignment Meter

Alignment bar

While in Middle-earth, a meter appears at the top of the screen showing the player's alignment.

As of Beta 15, the old alignment system has been rewritten and replaced with a new faction-based system, which adds more depth into the decisions of the player and making it far more realistic. For example, killing one Orc in Mordor should have no effect on your Hobbit alignment (the Hobbits simply would not know or care if you were killing Orcs in a far-off land), and the interactions between different NPCs are more complex - for example, Dunlendings can fight most types of Orcs and Rangers, but will not fight Hobbits.

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Press the Middle-earth menu key (default 'L') to view the factions menu, which shows your alignment with all factions, and other faction statistics.

The player starts off with 0 alignment for all factions (except Utumno, of which the player is always an enemy), so you may wander most regions of Middle-earth without coming to much harm - that is, until you first attack an NPC. Your first NPC kill is bound to influence the way a lot of factions feel about you, so keep this in mind! Of course, you can always undo your actions by losing or gaining alignment with various factions.

Alignment is gained or lost mostly by killing creatures, but also for performing certain actions. As of Beta 20, the addition of quests has allowed the player to be able to gain alignment for factions completing these quests with the help of the Red Book. When the player is talking to a mob, a quest can randomly pop up on the player's screen. If this is accepted, and the quest completed, the player gains varying amounts of alignment for that faction, in addition to a few Silver Coins. The amounts of coins and alignment depend on the difficulty of the mini-quest.

If the player wants to get alignment quickly, there are several ways to do so. See this article for more details.

Benefits of Alignment

Most alignment factions share common benefits for gaining alignment with them, such as:

  • Good reputation with NPCs - most NPCs will treat you as a friend and not attack you if you have neutral or positive alignment. (Notable exceptions being the Wood-elves, Trolls, and Mordor, who only trust you above a certain alignment).
    • With this comes the ability to talk to the NPCs.
    • And therefore, the ability to accept Mini-Quests from the NPCs.
  • To be feared by some NPCs if you have less than -500 alignment with their faction (they will flee if the player comes close to them, but some ranged units still shoot arrows or crossbow bolts when the player hasn't arrived the close range but is still in their shooting range). Not all faction NPCs show this behavior, strong faction NPCs like those of Gondor or Mordor won't flee even if a player has less than -500 alignment with them, and even among the NPCs of weaker factions there are some exceptions like Mirk-Trolls, Mirkwood Spiders, Trolls and Mountain Trolls. Utumno creatures will never flee from any player, because of their permanent -66,666 alignment.
  • Trading - most traders in the mod will only trade with you above a certain level of alignment.
  • Unit hiring - the unit commanders in the mod require a certain alignment before they will let you hire their units. More advanced units require even more alignment.
    • The cost of hiring a unit goes down as your alignment increases.
    • When you achieve very high alignment, you can buy a Horn of Conquest from most unit commanders.
  • Use of Crafting Tables - most factions have a crafting table on which you can craft their weapons, equipment, blocks, and other items. These tables can only be used with positive alignment.
  • Shields - most factions have a shield which becomes available to wear at +1000 alignment.
  • The use of chat Titles for a specific faction. These are earned by getting +100 alignment with a certain faction. Most factions have multiple titles, depending on which you prefer. These are a fun way to show your achievements throughout Middle-Earth.

The specifics of these things vary between factions. Some factions also have other benefits; see the table below for full details.

The /alignment command

The command for altering your alignment is:

/alignment [set|add] <FACTION> <value> [player]

The player tag is optional and can be used to affect someone other than you. (To find out the command name of the faction you want, look in the table below or press the tab key after typing "/alignment set " - it brings up a list of all possible command arguments.)

You can also use ALL for the <FACTION> parameter to affect all factions at once.

List of all Alignment Factions

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For more information on factions outside of how their alignment meter works, see the Factions page.

You may contribute to this page as you find out more about the new alignment system.

Want to know the best way to fight these factions? Look here!

Faction
Actions that increase alignment
Actions that decrease alignment
Benefits of positive alignment (besides not being attacked by the faction)
Faction Name for the /alignment command
Hobbits Complete Hobbit Mini-Quests

Perform a Hobbit marriage

Kill Dark Huorns

Kill Hobbits

Hire from Hobbit Shirriffs

Hire from Hobbit Farmers   

Trade with Hobbit Bartenders

Trade with Hobbit Orcharders

HOBBIT
Rangers of the North Complete Ranger Mini-Quests

Kill Gundabad Orcs, Wargs, and

Kill Dark Huorns

Kill Rhudaur Hillmen

Kill Angmar Orcs and Wargs\Kill Trolls or Mountain Trolls
Kill Dunlending

Kill Rangers of the North

Kill High Elves

Kill Hobbits

Kill Gondorians

Hire Rangers of the North

Use of Ranger Crafting Table

RANGER_NORTH
Blue Mountains Complete Blue Mountains Mini-Quests

Kill Gundabad Orcs and Wargs

Marry Blue Mountains Dwarves

Kill Dwarves

Kill Blue Mountains Dwarves

Trade with Blue Mountains Miners

Hire Blue Mountains Dwarves

Use of Blue Mountains Crafting Table

Trade with Blue Mountains Merchants

BLUE_MOUNTAINS
High Elves Complete High Elf Mini-Quests

Kill Gundabad Orcs
Kill Rhudaur Hillmen

Kill Angmar Orcs

Kill High Elves

Kill Rangers of the North


Kill Galadhrim Elves

Use of High Elven Crafting Table   
Trade with High Elf Smiths

Hire High Elves

HIGH_ELF
Gundabad Complete Gundabad Mini-Quests

Kill Hobbits

Kill Rangers of the North

Kill High Elves

Kill Wood-elves

Kill Dwarves (both kinds)

Kill Galadhrim Elves

Kill Ents or Huorns

Kill Gundabad Orcs and Wargs

Kill Angmar Orcs and Wargs
Kill Rhudaur Hillmen

Kill Trolls or Mountain Trolls

Kill Mirkwood Spiders

Use of Gundabad Crafting Table

Hire Gundabad Orcs and Wargs

Tame and ride Gundabad Wargs

GUNDABAD
Angmar Complete Angmar Mini-Quests

Kill Rangers of the North

Kill High Elves

Kill Angmar Orcs and Wargs

Kill Rhudaur Hillmen

Kill Trolls or Mountain Trolls

Kill spawn of Mordor

Kill Gundabad Orcs and Wargs

Use of Angmar Crafting Table

Hire Angmar Orcs, Wargs, and Trolls

Tame and ride Angmar Wargs

ANGMAR
Woodland Realm Complete Wood-elven Mini-Quests

Kill Gundabad Orcs and Wargs

Kill Mirkwood Spiders

Kill Dol Guldur Orcs and Mirk-Trolls

Kill Wood-elves

Kill High Elves

Kill Galadhrim Elves

Kill Dorwinion

Use of Wood-elven Crafting Table
Trade with Wood-elf Smiths

Hire Wood-elves

WOOD_ELF
Dol Guldur Complete Dol Guldur Mini-Quests

Kill Wood-elves

Kill Galadhrim Elves

Kill Mirkwood Spiders

Kill Gundabad Orcs

Kill Dol Guldur Orcs

Kill Mirk-Trolls

Hire Dol Guldur Orcs, Spiders, Spider Riders and Olog-hai

Usage of the Dol Guldur Crafting Table

Tame and ride Mirkwood Spiders

DOL_GULDUR
Durin's Folk Complete Durin's Folk Mini-Quests

Kill Gundabad Orcs and Wargs

Marry Dwarves

Kill Dwarves (both kinds)

Kill Men of Dale

Use of Dwarven Crafting Table

Trade with Dwarf Miners

Hire Dwarves

DWARF
Lothlórien Complete Lothlórien Mini-Quests

Kill Gundabad Orcs and Wargs

Kill Mirkwood Spiders

Kill Galadhrim Elves

Kill High Elves

Kill Wood-elves

Use of Galadhrim Crafting Table

Trade with Galadhrim Traders   

Hire Galadhrim Elves

Trade with Galadhrim Smiths

GALADHRIM
Dunland Complete Dunland Mini-Quests

Kill Rohirrim

Kill Rangers of the North

Kill Dunlendings Use of Dunlending Crafting Table

Trade with Dunlending Bartenders

Hire Dunlendings

DUNLAND
Fangorn Kill Gundabad Orcs and Wargs

Kill Uruk-hai

Kill Ents

Kill Huorns

Chop down trees in Fangorn Forest

Create hired Huorns

The ability to drink Ent Draughts

FANGORN
Rohan Complete Rohan Mini-Quests

Kill Dunlendings

Kill Uruk-hai

Kill creatures from Mordor

Kill Rohirrim

Kill Gondorians

Kill horses in Rohan

Use of Rohirric Crafting Table

Trade with Rohan Blacksmiths

Trade with Rohan Meadhosts

Hire Rohirrim

ROHAN
Uruk-hai Complete Uruk-Hai Mini-Quests

Kill Ents

Kill Huorns

Kill Rohirrim

Kill Gondorians

Kill Uruk-hai Use of Uruk Crafting Table

Trade with Uruk Traders

Hire Uruk-hai

Tame and ride Uruk Wargs

URUK_HAI
Gondor Complete Gondor Mini-Quests

Kill Dunlendings

Kill creatures from Mordor

Kill Near Haradrim

Kill Moredain

Kill Uruk-Hai

Kill Half-Trolls

Kill Gondorians

Kill Rohirrim

Kill Rangers of the North

Kill Ithilien Rangers

Kill Swan Knights

Use of Gondorian Crafting Table

Use of Dol Amroth Crafting Table
Trade with Gondor Blacksmiths

Hire Gondor Soldiers

Hire Swan Knights

Hire Ithilien rangers

GONDOR
Mordor Complete Mordor Mini-Quests

Kill Rohirrim

Kill Gondorians

Kill Swan Knights

Kill Ithilien Rangers

Kill creatures from Mordor

Kill Near Haradrim

Kill creatures from Angmar

Kill Half-Trolls

Use of Morgul Crafting Table

Trade with Orc Traders

Hire Mordor Orcs, Wargs, Olog-hai, and Mordor Spiders

Hire Slaves of Núrn

Tame and ride Mordor Wargs and Spiders

MORDOR
Near Harad Complete Near Harad Mini-Quests

Kill Gondorians

Kill Swan Knights

Kill Ithilien Rangers

Kill Near Haradrim

Kill Mordor Orcs

Kill Moredain

Usage of Near Harad Crafting Table

Hire Near Haradrim Warriors

Trade with Merchants of Near Harad

NEAR_HARAD
Moredain Complete Moredain Mini-Quests

Kill Gondorians

Kill Tauredain

Kill Mordor Orcs

Kill Near Haradrim Complete Half-Troll mini-quests

Kill Moredain

Kill Half-Trolls

Usage of Moredain Crafting Table MOREDAIN
Tauredain Complete Tauredain Mini-Quests

Kill Moredain

Kill Near Haradrim

Kill Tauredain Usage of the Tauredain Crafting table

Hire Tauredain

Trade with shamans

Hire farm hands

TAUREDAIN
Half-Trolls Complete Half-Troll mini-quests

Kill Gondorians

Kill Mordor Orcs

Kill Half-Trolls

Kill Moredain

Usage of Half-Troll Crafting Table

Hire Half-Trolls

HALF_TROLL
Utumno Can't be changed; always at -66666

Can't be changed

Will never be changed

No effect None
Dale Complete Dale Mini-Quests

Kill Dol Guldur

Kill Men of Dale

Kill Durin's Folk

Usage of Dalish Crafting Table

Hire Men of Dale

Trade with Dalish Baker

Trade with Blacksmith of Dale

Trade with Dalish Merchant

DALE
Dorwinion Complete Dorwinion Mini-Quests

Kill Dol Guldur

Kill Mordor Orcs

Kill Dorwinion

Kill Wood-Elf

Pick Grapevines in Dorwinion

Usage of Dorwinion Crafting Table

Hire Vintner Guards

Hire Warriors of Bladorthin

Trade with Dorwinion Vintner-Elf

Trade with Dorwinion Merchant

Trade with Dorwinion Vinekeeper

Hire Dorwinion Vinehand

DORWINION
Gameplay mechanics of the Lord of the Rings Mod