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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1779268" data-attributes="member: 5122">I absolutely agree.  One of the strict limits in the paladin code as offered in the core rulebooks is that paladins will not associate with evil companions.  If using an intelligent, evil sword doesn't qualify, what in the world does?For a paladin -- and, IMO, for any Good PC, but especially for a paladin -- the ends never justify the means.  Not if he expects to remain a paladin.  The proper course of action here would be to hold the sword just as one would hold any other irredeemably evil prisoner one had no other means of dealing with.As an aside, if I were the DM, I'd love this situation.  Talk about adventure hooks falling into your lap ... that paladin should be willing to undertake just about any quest to find some way of dealing with the sword.</blockquote>