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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3668632" data-attributes="member: 13966">Fiends are inherantly evil.  There is such a diminutive chance of one being a risen fiend, that there is no point trying to make sure that a fiend is really evil before attacking it; and anyway, a risen fiend would not have deceived them, and would have tried to convince them it was trying to repent.  Of course, it would have likely flown away if the paladin tried to attack it then.But no, it was evil, like 99.9999% of fiends, and avoided being honest with them in the first place.  Therefore it deserved no mercy or hesitation on the paladin's part.If it had been a shapchanged creature or something, it would have been more forthright rather than allowing them to see it as a fiend right after it had been invisible for so long.  It would know that others would be likely to attack it on sight if it appeared as it did.  And if it were an orphan boy or something, I hardly think it would be so deceptive to people who might help him regain his true form and stop looking like a monster.  It also wouldn't have been able to help them in the battle, which the OP said it did.Considering it didn't act like an innocent at any point, there was no reason to believe the suddenly-revealed fiend to actually be a decent, non-fiendish fellow in some unusual circumstances, let alone one of the practically-completely-unheard-of risen fiends.And considering it managed to deceive them long enough and get them to agree to cooperate while it was invisible, it probably wasn't an idiot, so he couldn't just assume that it was a reasonably-decent fellow polymorphed into a fiend who was just too damn stupid to consider that revealing his fiendish appearance later would be much more dire for him, than trying to explain himself beforehand without staying invisible (after all, he could explain while invisible at first, then remove his invisibility to show that he does indeed look like an imp now, and please don't kill him....).(I'm just trying to explain my position more thoroughly)</blockquote>

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