Westwind said:Just to stir things up some more, I thought I would quote "Faiths and Pantheons" from the Tyr entry (not the same God, but one that allows Paladins and has the retribution domain):
"Deliver vengence to the guilty for those who cannot do it themselves." (His lost men, clearly, couldn't exactly do it themselves. Also note the use of the word vengence, not justice)
But the PALADIN should follow what is just, as he is a paragon of Good and Law. Irrespective of what Fighters who follow the same god would do (and are not bound with such strictness to Good and Law.
Westwind said:"Without a civilized legal code with which to guide their judgements, they often default to a doctrine roughly equivalent to 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'." (Again, clearly the Bandit Kingdoms don't have an established legal code, so this default would have applied).
But the presence of a legal in the bandit Kingdom is irrelevant: The Paladin should be following his own fine tuned sense of Law, Good, Justice and Retribution.
It strikes me that acting this sentence in this fashion upon these mercenaries is cowardly, vain, and self-defeating as it does nothing to prevent the CE Church from recruiting more mercenaries to do the same again. Indeed, should the deed become known, it might spark a nasty movement against whatever Church the paladin represents...
How many times can the paladin travel to the tent city and execute in secret those participants in the CE Churches plot to destroy Goodness?
That said; I hope you guys had fun.
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