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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6673573" data-attributes="member: 6790260">As others have said, it depends on several factors, though clarifying the Lawful Neutral alignment helps. It would also help to know which Oath you're taking, if you're playing 5e. For example:Devotion: This Oath is all about making sacrifices for others, and seems to be very much in keeping with the usual depiction of Bahamut (righteous protector). There are a couple paths you can take here. One is simply "internal conflict." She hates dragonborn, all of them, irrationally, because of her experience...yet she worships a dragon god who might even be their (co-)creator, and her oath could easily force her to give aid to those she hates, or even defend an ungrateful dragonborn. How your paladin shoulders this burden--resolving her hate, skirting her oath, etc.--would be interesting indeed. Under this oath, she would never respond with violence to dragonborn just walking down the street, but she could easily be racist as others have said, naturally assuming the worst of dragonborn she encounters.Ancients: I don't really "get" this oath as well as I do the other two. It also seems rather Chaotic, but still serviceable. Perhaps she sees dragonborn as ugly, crass beings, who have failed to live up to the splendor and goodness of her patron. She could then take a whole different stance on racism--rather than being the "assume the worst," she could be an example of the "White Man's Burden" trope. She is the upstanding, moral, honest one, and they are the poor, lamentable, backward, stupid, vicious ones who must be rescued from their wretched existence and properly educated. She sees herself as a good samaritan, bringing joy, culture, education, righteousness, and civilization, but to the dragonborn she's an imperialist trying to destroy their culture and who cannot see any good or worth in them as they are.Vengeance: This one is the most obvious, and (from your description) seems like what you really chose. Remember, though, that the Oath of Vengeance still gives consideration to the weak and wounded. Presumably, if you worship Bahamut, your target-of-vengeance would be Tiamat and those who serve her--which includes, I would guess, a lot of dragonborn. Any follower of Tiamat would be your biggest target--"Choose the greater evil"--even if it means killing a human and saving a dragonborn. You can still be suspicious of them though; dragonborn are very likely to worship one of the two draconic deities, so every single one will need to prove their devotion to the true faith, or be eternally suspect as a heretical Tiamat-worshipper.All three have potential. You have to decide how you want to run it.</blockquote>

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