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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5615151" data-attributes="member: 63">The clergy is wildly pantheistic, with as many gods as the Catholic church has saints, and yes, it pops out clerics by the bushel. But with the sole exception of Triegenes (a mortal fisherman who pulled the secret of divinity out of the sea with a net) and Srasama (killed 500 years ago), I don't plan to mention any specific gods. I suppose for Triegenes you could go for the domains Liberation (freedom or revolution), Nobility (martyr), and Water (oceans), with the favored weapon of a net. And maybe use the 'Self-Perfection' alternate channeling rule from Ultimate Magic. Well here's the thing. The traditional 'knight in shining armor' paladin doesn't have as large a role as it once would have for the Clergy. They've secured their borders pretty well, and supernatural evil doesn't encroach very often. There aren't handy 'bad guys' for Lawful Good types to hunt without qualms, so while there may be the occasional paladin who feels a call to be a hero -- and while there are definitely orders of knights who claim they've got gods on their side -- there wouldn't be large quantities of paladins.One possible place for paladins to show up, if you tweak them a bit, is in the forests of Elfaivar, trying to protect Crisillyir and other nations' colonists from attacks by the locals. But that's probably better-served by rangers. Well, you can certainly summon critters from other planes for short durations, but it would make the most sense if a summoner's eidolon was fey- or shadow-themed, since the Dreaming and the Bleak Gate are easier to access. Plus there are elemental planes that are visible in the night sky.Remember, players can break the rules of the setting a little, as long as they're aware of the fact that they're unique. If a summoner had a fire elemental-style eidolon, scholars would figure he's just drawing on magic from Jiese and creating the creature, rather than summoning an actual entity.</blockquote>

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