The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

The Magicians: D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

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We decided to put one fantasy world into another, and assign the main characters of Syfy’s The Magicians a Dungeons & Dragons moral alignment.

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The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

SyFy’s The Magicians, based on the trilogy by author Lev Grossman, has enjoyed four seasons of popularity so far. The show follows a group of extremely talented students who attend a grad school to learn magic — real magic. Mixed with equal parts magic and realism, this show can be charmingly silly one moment and heartbreaking the next. The main characters win magic school tournaments, face up against mutated casters, make personal enemies with gods, pull off a magical bank heist, and survive a few poltergeists. With the show’s many references to D&D (see the magic missile plotline), let’s see where the characters land on the scale of moral alignments.

10 Julia Wicker: Neutral Good

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

When Julia is sent home from the Brakebills test, she takes a hard swing towards neutral evil — she’s willing to do anything it takes to grow as a magician. But after accidentally summoning Reynard, she begins to see the benefits of doing acts of good for other people.Throughout several difficult encounters, Julia grows into her new role as a demigoddess. Just when the gods are about to whisk her away to an eternal existence untroubled by mortal dilemmas, she decides to give up her goddesshood and return to her friends to save them, which is just about the most neutral good decision she could have made.

9 Alice Quinn: Lawful Neutral

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

Alice originally attended Brakebills to uncover the secrets behind what happened to her brother Charlie. While attending, she falls head over heels for Quentin. Besides her love for him, Alice seeks to mostly stay out of any drama or sources of tension.

As a Niffin, she was arguably less dangerous than other Niffins since she only desired things that interested her, and so her actions (though evil) were pretty neutral in their intention. When Alice returns to the material plane, she’s even less enthusiastic to adventure — she even refuses to participate in her role as one of the queens of Fillory. In Season 5, we see her repeatedly refuse to come to the Library’s aid, despite being one of the most talented magicians on the show.

8 Penny Adiyodi: Neutral Good

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

Neutral good sometimes means letting your friends take advantage of you and your teleportation abilities so that they can continue to survive and save the world and so on. Penny Adiyodi, a smart mouth with a tough exterior, makes up for his caustic personality through his actions. Though the character can be divided into two — Penny 40 and Penny 23 — it’s fair to say that both versions of Penny have been largely neutral good. They fight when they could flee; they help when they aren’t bound to; they both regularly risk their lives for the people they love and for the world at large.

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7 Kady Orloff-Diaz: Lawful Good

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

Kady is the shining example of this truth: a lawful good character doesn’t always act lawfully, but when they don’t act lawfully they certainly feel guilty about it. When Kady was being blackmailed and threatened by Marina, she hated what she had to do to survive. As a hedge-witch, she hasn’t always followed societal laws (see: bank heist), but she has always followed the rules of the hedges.

Kady especially leans into her lawful good roots when Dean Fogg puts her into magical witness protection and assigns her the identity of a very lawful good police officer. Those experiences stay with Kady and influence her to become the lawful good hedge queen she is in Season 5.

6 Josh Hoberman: True Neutral

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

Josh is a naturalist magician with a talent for cooking. The other characters find him stuck in a different world after a particularly bad magical spring break. Additionally, Josh worships the party god Bacchus.Unlike many of the other magicians, Josh isn’t very fond of battle magic — nor is he a particularly clever caster. Josh shines because he wants what Bacchus promises: an eternal party, a chill pill that never wears off, and a plate of good cookies. In Season 5, it’s revealed that he ate buckets of chicken wings while Fillory fell apart around him. True neutral isn’t always ambivalence; sometimes it’s inaction.

5 Eliot Waugh: Chaotic Neutral

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

For much of the show, Eliot has been a bit inactive. In Season 1 and 5, he’s reeling from a host of complicated emotions, and he copes with that by overindulging in alcohol and drugs. During Season 4, he’s indisposed as a monster possessed and uses his body to his friend’s horror. When he’s in his right mind, Josh is more than willing to go along with whatever his High King and best friend Margo chooses to do — that is, ever since he was overthrown as High King himself.

Eliot doesn’t want anything bad to happen to anyone else and will go out of his way to help you (if he likes you), but even his friends are wary of his actions, with both Margo and his wife Fen making frequent comments about his tendency to avoid conflict.

4 Margo Hanson: Chaotic Neutral

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

In most of Margo’s early scenes, her behavior is icy and mean, such as when she tells Alice the story of how her brother died. In Season 2, we see Margo branch out —in-universe, she asks aloud if she is meant to be comic relief in the story of her own life. After a stunning desert-musical episode, Margo’s character development seems to have come full circle, with her finally being able to reconcile the parts of herself that want to be Queen with the parts of herself that are afraid to reach her full potential. Every monarch loves power, and Margo is no different, but she is ruthless when it comes to protecting what is hers, which right now is all of Fillory.

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3 Fen: Neutral Good

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

Fen the Toeless, a knifemaker’s daughter, has been a bright and cheerful constant in a world that is sometimes full of torture and grief. Even in her darkest moments (after losing her daughter to the fae), she shines as she tells Alice to have hope that the information she gained as a Niffin would eventually return to her.

In Season 5, we see Alice’s ghost be earnest and cheerful interacting with Eliot…until her ghost loop closes and the scene turns to horror. Fen was ready to defend Margo’s position to the death, armed with nothing but two small knives and with no other companion except Josh Hoberman. Alice may be the most wholesome character on the show.

2 Dean Fogg: True Neutral

The Magicians D&D Moral Alignments of the Main Characters

Dean Fogg is to Brakebills as Dumbledore is to Harry Potter. And while the moral value of Dumbledore’s actions is a hot debate among Potterheads, fans of The Magicians can pretty much count on Dean Fogg to avoid conflict. In Season 1, the rest of the characters are stuck in a time loop. Dean Fogg is aware of the loop, but he trusts Jane Chapman to handle it. When Jane dies, Dean Fogg puts his faith in his students. He is frequently shown guiding his students (past and present) but also frequently comments that his only job is to teach them, and he doesn’t much care what they do with the spells themselves.

1 Quentin Coldwater: Lawful Good

If Quentin wasn’t lawful good, his current status on the show might be different. When viewers first meet Quentin, he’s lost in a medley of moments that have no meaning to him. He’s clinically depressed and potentially suicidal. After he passes the test to get into Brakebills, Quentin starts to grow. It may take him a few seasons to decide where his boundaries lay, but by Season 3, he’s ready to take one for the team and remain in Castle Blackspire to guard the Monster so that everyone else can live in a world with magic. By Season 4, when Quentin goes above and beyond to free Eliot from the Monster’s grasp, it’s consistent with the rest of his actions: lawful good.

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