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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmo" data-source="post: 2594307" data-attributes="member: 1767">One type of paladin (even if he´s not a paladin per se ) is Mandorallen from David Eddings work: a loyal, absolute friend that loves all good and don´t fear to meet evil eye to eye. He´s a little bit rigid sometimes,but he will never falter. Perhaps he´s a bit on the stereotypical side, but I can´t help liking the guy. I wont mind if my paladin player choose him as role model.Another paladin-like type is C.S Friedmans Damien Kilcanon Vryce, a warrior priest filled with angst and often confronted with impossible choices: a man of flesh and blood that tries the hardest he can to obey his god without failing to much. This is not a bad choice either, very realistic but probably to hard to play this kind of troubled personality.A passus from "True Night Falls" embodies Damiens life and work:"He walked quietly to the head of the aisle, listening to his footsteps resound in emptiness.Faith curled about him like an evening mist, centuries upon centuries of unquestioning devotion that had left their mark upon the floor he trod, the altar before him,the very air he breathed.Earth-fae: utterly tamed, utterly tractable. He had dreamed of it without understanding. Now he knew. Now he understood. He put out his hand, knowing that it curled about his living warmth like a flame. No need to See it;faith was enough.Silently he knelt on the plush velvet carpet,his white robe gathered beneath his knees.In his eyes the afterimage of the fireworks still burned,sparks that shimmered and died in the shadow of Mercia´s great altar.Trembling, he bowed his head. And tried to voice a prayer so deeply embedded in his soul that for a moment no words would come. For a moment he did no more than pour his hope, his joy his love of the Church into the bondless reservoir of faith that surrounded him.And then the words came."Thank You, Lord, for giving me this day. This joy. Thank You for letting me taste that beauty of the human spirit which is the core of our faith. Thank You for giving me even one moment in which human greed, uncertainty, and aggression receded from concern, and the Dream that is our faith stood revealed before me in  all its terrible splendor.Help me to hold on to that moment within my heart forever, a source of strength in times of trial, a source of faith in times of questioning. Help me to be a vehicle through which others may glimpse what I have seen, and a tool by which the future may be fashioned in its image. In Your most holy Name, Lord God of Earth and Erna. Always and forever in Your name."There were tears on his face, running down his cheeks. He left them alone. They, too, were a kind of prayer, too precious to disturb: a psalm of pure emotion."Asmo</blockquote>

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