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Originally Posted by alexondria
You could still work a backwards game by just defining what corruption is. If you define the axis as slave to the conformist regime that is currently in charge as the status quo and anything that brings someone further away from that making them more individual as corruption there you go.
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I think if there was a 2nd Edition that wasn't allowed to fundamentally rethink everything about how Kyriotates and Shedim work, the best solution would be that Shedim had to corrupt the host relative to the host's own standards. This way, no mechanics have to change for the demons to be the good guys - the Shedite just consistently has a host violate the mores that are holding them back and/or making them a terrible person. For example, under this model a Backwards Shedite might possess a Tea Party member and slowly bring them around into an LGBT rights activist by repeatedly violating the bits of the host's morals that define homosexuality as wrong, while a forwards Shedite could just act like a traditional stereotype of a Shedite since basically everyone has
some standard that on its own sounds non-evil.