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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7819384" data-attributes="member: 996">So, this one reminded me of something, like you might see in a chambara flick - the samurai (paladin, whatever), ends up caught between contradictory oaths with no way to salvage his honor (except seppuku, of course, but Paladins don't generally have that option).   So what if his Oath includes protecting innocents or a certain specific charge, and that charge is put under a threat such that the /only/ way to protect him is to break some other oath? That, at least, sounds like a tough one. The last couple sound more like failure than breaking your oath.  You try to do your duty, but you're stunned/unconscious/dying/whatever and literally /can't/.</blockquote>