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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Palantir" data-source="post: 232208" data-attributes="member: 1366">I like hong and Rackhir's suggestions. Combine a character flaw with an unfulfilled need. In SW Eps 1 and 2, Anakin is filled with the need to protect the ones he cares about and combines that need with the flaw of pride. "Someday, I will be the most powerful Jedi ever!" Why? So he can protect people. Enter the antagonist. Overtly, the mentor helps the apprentice gain power and ability, pretending to help the apprentice fulfill his desire (i.e. to protect people). But, because the need is unfulfillable, the apprentice contiues to knock himself out trying to accomplish it. The mentor continues to feed that desire, but now begins to show the apprentice that the people he's trying to protect are the people that are trying to harm the people he's REALLY trying to protect! Sound confusing? It's supposed to be. When the character begins to not know right from wrong, up from down, that's when the fall occurs. When he looks back at the horrible things he's done, he's ashamed, but there's nothing left to go back to. I'm guessing that in Ep3, and Anakin begins to wipe out the Jedi at the behooving of Darth Sidious, he realizes that it is too late to go back. He can only forge ahead, into the darkness, to protect himself. Once all the people he's cared about are dead, or turned against him, he has nothing left BUT the darkness... and the evil mentor who never left his side.So, for your paladin, see if there is a character flaw you can exploit (pride in battle, anger at betrayal, etc.) and combine that with an unfulfillable need (wipe out all evil, protect the order against all wrong, etc.). With those two characteristics, you have the making for a fallen hero. In my opinion, anyway. YMMV. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Good Luck!Mark</blockquote>

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