Every player has an alignment.  You start out as neutral.  As you kill
monsters your alignment will change depending on which monsters you decide
to pick on.  If you kill the bad ones, like the troll, orcs, giants, etc.
then you will become honorable, then good, then a crusader, then a paladin,
then a white lord.  If you kill the good ones, like the frog, beggar, guard,
etc. then you will become malicious, then evil, then infamous, then a black
knight, then an evil lord.

Note that it is beneficial to stick with a given alignment, since you get
more of a bonus for killing monsters whose alignment is very different from
yours.  So if you are very good, you get more experience for evil monsters.
Or, of course, you could stay neutral and therefore be able to go after all
of the monsters, instead of limiting yourself to those of a given alignment.