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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 3291646" data-attributes="member: 2804">Ok people, paladins ARE NOT COPS. They do NOT obey the "law". Paladins obey and answer only to the particular authority or deity THEY recognize as legitimate. Some guy calling himself king and declaring himself ruler over a hunk of land does not in any way give him any sort of authority that a paladin is obligated to respect in any way whatsoever.If a paladin follows a particular church than that is the law they follow. If a paladin travels to a foreign land with different laws that conflict with his church's it does not mean the paladin is now in some sort of dilemma about which law to follow.The paladin might simply view the other nation's laws as the scribblings of the ignorant heathen infidels. Depending on his personality, the paladin may arrogantly declare his law the true way, defying by sword and word any who would object. Or the paladin may respectfully follow the other laws in an attempt at humoring the native cultures. But either path is perfectly legitimate and at NO time would the paladin's status be in jeopardy.A paladin in a foreign land that legalized slavery would have no problem denouncing slavery to the point of calling out a slaver as a vile criminal and cutting him down on the spot. And if other unbelieving heathens dare to stop him, he could theoretically denounce them all as vile enablers of evil and bring fire and death down upon them with absolutely NO RISK to his paladinhood. The people of that nation may declare the paladin a murderer and seize him and hang him for his crimes. But as long as the paladin was following his code, he would walk to the gallows as a full paladin knowing in his heart that he was RIGHT and they were WRONG. The people of that nation may believe the paladin to be a murderer but their belief is ultimately irrelevant in determining whether the paladin loses his status or not.The code of a paladin is not relative to whatever the prevailing culture is. It is an absolute covenant ordained by divine authority which supercedes any other man made law or rule. Regardless of where he is or who he is talking to, the way the paladin follows is the ONE TRUE way as far as they are concerned. A paladin only falls from paladinhood when the paladin strays from the one true code that the individual paladin follows. Not the code that others believe in or would have the paladin follow.</blockquote>

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