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Is Anyone Unhappy About Non-LG Paladins?
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<blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 6335583" data-attributes="member: 9327"><p>The Arthurian legends were very much a morality fable. Every time these knights strayed from the good and noble, they were afflicted. Lancelot was forever barred from seeing the grail; Arthur himself died as a result of his sins, via Mordred; note that this connection was not lost on medieval readers.</p><p></p><p>But in any event, the knights of the round table reveal themselves to be piss-poor candidates for paladinhood (no detect evil! See? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />). Maybe they can be some of those new CG paladins. I hear Saxon gods have lower expectations.</p><p></p><p>Nope. It isn't where they come from.</p><p></p><p>But, in their defense, I'll say the idea shouldn't be thrown out completely. As an example: the founding fathers of the US were slave owners, and yet the passage of time has changed the meaning of their words "all men are created equal" to be more egalitarian than they intended. So it is with chivalry; many knights back then were total asses. Nevertheless, the essence of their (well, really Charlemagne's own paladins, not the knights of the round) ideals, distilled down to its purest, most unadulterated form, is what inspires the paladin as envisioned in 1st edition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Halivar, post: 6335583, member: 9327"] The Arthurian legends were very much a morality fable. Every time these knights strayed from the good and noble, they were afflicted. Lancelot was forever barred from seeing the grail; Arthur himself died as a result of his sins, via Mordred; note that this connection was not lost on medieval readers. But in any event, the knights of the round table reveal themselves to be piss-poor candidates for paladinhood (no detect evil! See? :p). Maybe they can be some of those new CG paladins. I hear Saxon gods have lower expectations. Nope. It isn't where they come from. But, in their defense, I'll say the idea shouldn't be thrown out completely. As an example: the founding fathers of the US were slave owners, and yet the passage of time has changed the meaning of their words "all men are created equal" to be more egalitarian than they intended. So it is with chivalry; many knights back then were total asses. Nevertheless, the essence of their (well, really Charlemagne's own paladins, not the knights of the round) ideals, distilled down to its purest, most unadulterated form, is what inspires the paladin as envisioned in 1st edition. [/QUOTE]
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