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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 736169" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Hey there S'mon! How are you? It's good to see you my friend!Well, I think it is kinda important to keep the "truth" as far as Gnolls' alignment a mystery. I mean to say is, I don't think that I want to explicitly decide the issue for players, because then the answer is out in the open, and it's a done deal so to speak. What more is there to discuss then? Do you see what I'm saying?<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=":)" /> I like to just shrug and look at each of them and say "perhaps you are right" or "Then again, perhaps you are right" so that the mystery remains *with them* and they can forever ponder and argue about which view is right. I think there is significant evidence to support both views, so I tend to think it is a good element of mystery to keep. What do you think S'mon?<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=":)" />I also think it is within the purview of Paladins codes' and the Lawful Good Alignment to have paladins that believe in swift and ruthless judgment. It seems to depend on the particular deity that the paladin follows. Despite what many may choose to believe, embracing a code of swift and ruthless judgment and wrath is a very valid part of any good alignment, and in many ways can be seen to very necessary for the forces of good to even survive. Such a view may make some people uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean that such a philosophy is incompatible with Good. Those who are against such, I think, just have a narrow view of what "Good" alignments, especially Lawful Good, means, or can embrace.I think your playing a "Valloreanesque" paladin is great! It adds drama, depth, and greater dimension to the character as an individual. Embracing such is also good, because it allows for a greater variety of paladin and cleric types, for otherwise, they can often seem to be blurred into cookie cutters, so to speak. This greater variety then allows for different kinds of fun, dramatic stories to be told about your heroic, ruthless, and grim paladin, fighting in a dark world!<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=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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