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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sword-dancer" data-source="post: 224879" data-attributes="member: 1491">Hello SHARK The razors edge between lawful authority and good, not the hard road following the true way of  defending the downtrodden, the innocent against evil. Simon de Montfort would have liked such an speech from a cleric to his "troops"Pope Innocent put it shorter "Strike them down, god knows his own."This cleric maybe lawful, but also evil, he calls not for war and battle but for annihilation. The example per definition, The maid of lotharingen, la pucelle Jehanne d`arc.Ignatius from Loyola, stories of Saints let this young soldier choose the church and the formation of the Jesuites.Franz of Assissi maybe.Charles de Foucault(right spelling) from an young excessive olayboy, to an monk the ascet in the desert, martyr of faith.I don´t think enlightment could be taught, only helped to experience.And all training wouldn`t made a person a paladin, only the chosing/acceptance of the gods.His powers couldn`t be taught, only given, trained maybe but nothing more,The same as Wentworth Halkl(Lensmen, Galactic Patrol EE Smith) they couldn`t make Lensmen there only teach them what they must know to survive and do their job.But if a student hadn`t it, he couldn`t get the Lens.</blockquote>