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Yurtrus and LE Followers

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Had a surprise today when I attempted to make a LE Cleric/Monk of Yurtrus.

Yurtrus is the NE orc god of disease and death.

Im guessing based on the information I obtained from https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Yurtrus#3e , that acceptable alignments for clerics of this god are: NE, LN, and CN.

This website also mentioned a neat monk order:
Brotherhood of the Scarlet Scourge was dedicated to him. Unlike other monks, these monks could learn clerical abilities without destroying their potential as monks
So I thought this was a great character idea. But based on alignment restriction and mechanics of the game this monk order would all have to be of LN alignment.

This does not make much sense. A clearly evil aligned Orc God only accepting LN followers for his monk order, but not LE followers?
It would make much more sense for the follower to be LE and not LN.

Take a look at some of the Holy Days from the above website.
Holy Days
The Church recognized two major holy days. The first was the Ceremony of Contagion, which was celebrated on Midsummer's Eve. It was said on that day the god spread a contagion that sapped the world of life and drew it inevitably toward winter and the end of the year. After a series of bloody sacrifices to protect the orcs from the ravages of disease, the priests of Yurtrus went forth to spread disease and death worldwide, especially among other races.[4]

The second holy day, known as Putrescent Death, was celebrated on the eve of Midwinter. During that night, the clergy of Yurtrus celebrated the death of the world, symbolized by the sacrifice of intelligent creatures from other races.[4]
These are not religious holidays that would be celebrated by a LN character.
"Following the rules" of the religion requires actual sacrifices. A couple of those and that LN cleric would become LE anyways.

My suggestion is to change the acceptable alignment for Yurtrus from LN to LE. I would not be surprised that it was an error to begin with.
I can go ahead and make my cleric/monk Brother of the Scarlet Scourge a LN alignment, if thats what is preferred. But if I am going to spread death/undeath, suffering, and disease as per my faith, I should probably be doing it while evil.
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