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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalshane" data-source="post: 7107003" data-attributes="member: 9505">Thing is you can't really be a "blackguard" from the very beginning. The Oath (and associated powers and behavioral restrictions) don't come online until level 3. Remember, the only official evil paladin we have in 5E is the Oathbreaker. Up until a paladin takes an Oath at level 3, they don't have any built-in strictures on their behavior (though, understandably, most players in games that start below 3rd level are going to RP based on the Oath they intend to take.) In any case, this was a replacement character brought in at 7th level, so we didn't see his pre-pact behavior. (The character in question also isn't evil. He's more LN "protect the world from the forces of the Abyss by any means necessary" sort.)In any case, my own character (a Devotion paladin) and his rarely see eye to eye but--as long as he doesn't harm innocents and is actively fighting against the horde of demons threatening to overrun the world--the source of his powers (which my character doesn't know, though he suspects) are something to address when the world is no longer in peril.</blockquote>