Official Symbol for Law?

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Is there an official D&D symbol for Law? In the Age of Worms campaign it refers to the symbol as an arrow. I'm looking for a picture but is the arrow the official symbol of Law or is there another?

 

[frankthedm]

Symbol of Chaos
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The Symbol of Chaos originates from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories. In them, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern. In contrast, the symbol of Law is a single upright arrow. It is also called the Arms of Chaos, the Arrows of Chaos, the Chaos Star or the Symbol of Eight.

Moorcock conceived this symbol while writing the first Elric of Melniboné stories in the early 1960s. It was subsequently adopted into the pop-cultural mainstream, turning up in such diverse places as role-playing games and modern occult traditions.

 

[Kolvin]

Personally I like a circle as a symbol of law.

 

[Kichwas]

Circle, Square, or a square inside a circle.

Square: everything is ordered in perfect structure.
Circle: everything is uniform and there are no exceptions, no differences.

An alternative approach would be to find a symbol for Confuscianism. That's the real world philosophy of extreme 'lawful neutrality'.

In a Confusician world everything must be ordered, ranked, defined, and given structure under which to exist. If there is one single thing in all of creation to which perfect order is not applied, then all of creation will explode into utter chaos and destruction. Therefore, it must be found, categorized, and given a rank within the heavenly hiearchy.

In a Confuscian society, men outrank women not out of machismo notions of superiority as seen in the west, but because everything must have a rank, there can be no equals, and well... Confuscias was male and he made the rules.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Symbol of Chaos
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Symbol of Chaos originates from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories. In them, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern. In contrast, the symbol of Law is a single upright arrow. It is also called the Arms of Chaos, the Arrows of Chaos, the Chaos Star or the Symbol of Eight.

Moorcock conceived this symbol while writing the first Elric of Melnibonéstories in the early 1960s. It was subsequently adopted into the pop-cultural mainstream, turning up in such diverse places as role-playing games and modern occult traditions.

I always found that symbol of chaos to be pretty darn orderly!

 

[The_Fan]

Some people have edited it so the arrows are all different sizes.

 

[Clavis]

In the old World of Greyhawk boxed set, the symbol for Lawful Good is a set of scales, Lawful Neutral is symbolized by a shield with a cross on it, and Lawful Evil is indicated by a snake. The glyph for "honor" does look somewhat like an arrow.

 

[tuxgeo]

Is there an official D&D symbol for Law? In the Age of Worms campaign it refers to the symbol as an arrow. I'm looking for a picture but is the arrow the official symbol of Law or is there another?

I'm not aware of any official D&D symbol for Law.
If there was any such symbol before fourth edition, it remains well hidden.
If there was no such symbol before fourth edition, then there probably is still no such symbol, because Wizards of the Coast is pointedly reducing the role of alignment these days.

Some have mentioned an arrow; the Forgotten Realms deity Solonor Thelandira has an arrow as his holy symbol -- but he is an elven, Chaotic Good god of archery and the hunt, so that seems fairly inappropriate for Law.
Other symbols for Law from other sources include: a pair of stone tablets; a book; a truncheon. (None official, of course.)

 

[Xyxox]

In the Deities and Demogods rules cyclopedia (hardcover) with the Elric of Melnibone' mythos included, Donblas, the Justice Maker, is depicted in front of a single arrow pointing upwards. The arrow is similar is style to a single arrow from the Chaos symbol.

 

[Deverash]

At the GenCon when 3rd edition was released, they did a tournament series of modules, where you (as a younger Circle of 8) went into a Wind Duke area to retrieve the Wind Chimes of Law(or something like that). The section I played in had portals for each of the alignments, and they had done the single upward pointing arrow for Law there. Since I believe WotC wrote the modules themselves(They even had R&D guys running the games since the RPGA gm's didn't know the rules yet), that would probably be their "official" symbol for law.