Elvin pally?

[borc killer]

Err… who does an Elvin Pally worship? The powers of Law? Or am I missing a Elvin god someplace?

 

[frankthedm]

Err… who does an Elvin Pally worship? The powers of Law? Or am I missing a Elvin god someplace?

An elf paladin worships as he pleases as long as his own alignment remains Lawful Good and he commits no violations of the paladin's code.

 

[Cam Banks]

You know, it totally sucks the drama out of something as noble as an elven paladin to call him a pally.

That said, there's no one-step requirement for a paladin, the way there is for a cleric, so an elven paladin of Correlon would be fine.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Umbran]

That said, there's no one-step requirement for a paladin, the way there is for a cleric...

And even that is a little shady, considering that the core rules allow for cleris who don't follow a god at all...

 

[ValhallaGH]

You know, it totally sucks the drama out of something as noble as an elven paladin to call him a pally.

That said, there's no one-step requirement for a paladin, the way there is for a cleric, so an elven paladin of Correlon would be fine.

Even a paladin of Gruumsh is rules legal. Awkward and weird but rules legal.

 

[wingsandsword]

Err… who does an Elvin Pally worship? The powers of Law? Or am I missing a Elvin god someplace?

That depends entirely on the campaign setting.

In Core Rules, St. Cuthbert is a good choice, as is Heironeous, and just as a cleric does not need to have a specific deity as much as a philosophy or dedication to a concept, a paladin could gain their powers from their belief in their code or from undefined and non-specific lawful good deities. An Elf does not have to worship a specifically elven deity, there is no rule about that, and the core rules are so light on setting material that there really isn't even any presumed cultural problem with this.

In Forgotten Realms, you cannot be a divine spellcaster of any kind without a patron, so you will need a deity to be your patron. Helm is the most prominent patron of Paladins of any race, but Ilmater, Lathander, Mystra, Torm, Tyr and The Red Knight are other possible patrons. Sune is a CG deity who specifically as an exception sponsors Paladins and has a very close alliance and friendship with the elven deity Hanali Celanil, so she may be particularly appropriate for an elven paladin. As was pointed out, in core rules there is no "one step rule" for Paladin alignments relative to their deity, but in the Realms, only specific deities sponsor Paladins and deities do have required alignments of their worshippers, so it's a little more complicated, and an Elf would have to worship a non-Elven deity to be a Paladin.

In Dragonlance, Paladins are not normally allowed as a specific classs, as the Knights of Solamnia and their Prestige Classes replace them. If a Paladin was allowed as a special case, Majere and Kiri-Jolith are particularly appropriate as a patron, but Mishakal and Habbakuk aren't completely inappropriate.

In Eberron, I don't know, but there is probably something appropriate.

For a homebrew setting, talk with the GM regarding the religions and races of the setting. Depending on the setting, they might not even allow Elven paladins (or allow elves, or allow paladins, or have multiple deities).

 

[Quartz]

In Dragonlance, Paladins are not normally allowed as a specific classs, as the Knights of Solamnia and their Prestige Classes replace them.

Are you sure about that? The Knights are rather biased towards humans, so an elven Paladin would be entirely appropriate.

 

[DragonLancer]

Theres nothing to stop an Elf Paladin from serving a LG deity like Heironeous..

 

[Quartz]

And, of course, if you're playing Dragonlance before the Knights existed, then you can't use them anyway.

 

[The_Gneech]

Does it have to be a paladin specifically? Races of the Wild has a nifty "Champion of Corellan" PrC that is somewhat paladin-like.

-The Gneech