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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fralex" data-source="post: 6487135" data-attributes="member: 6785902">You all seem to have the right idea. When thinking about how to role play your oath, you may want to think of it in terms of where you get your strength to persevere. That is, after all, why you can cast spells. A Green Knight would fight first and foremost out of love for the world they vowed to defend. Every day, the knowledge of the infinite beauty and goodness they see in the world inspires them. If you've ever read Terry Pratchette's Carpe Jugulum, Mightily Oats became a sort of Green Knight after he found his faith: "The world is... different. Everywhere I look, I see something holy."White Knights fight out of devotion to their ideals more than devotion to the world itself. They get their strength from the hope their ideals inspire in themselves and the good they see adherence to these ideals accomplish. Although both kinds of paladins want to make the world a better place and be a force of justice, I see those with the Oath of Devotion taking a more active role in trying to be an agent of change. Taking the Oath of the Ancients is more of a promise to defend what's good in the world and restore that light where it has darkened, but not necessarily impose some kind of strong order on top of that to enforce any one person's specific ideals of right and wrong.Dark Knights don't really hold any lofty ideals about peace and goodwill, and don't particularly love the state of the world. They're the cynics who have seen how awful people can be, how little justice there is in some parts of the world, and how some cowards want to do what's right but are too afraid of getting their hands dirty. Their strength comes in some ways from outrage at the way things are, and the satisfaction of seeing people responsible punished. Suffice to say, they generally have trouble getting along with Green Knights, whom they have little in common with other than the desire to fight evil.(You've probably noticed this already, but the Oaths of Devotion, the Ancients, and Vengeance roughly correspond to the three alignments Lawful Good, Neutral Good, and Lawful Angry respectively)In answer to that new question, I don't actually think Oath choice would play much of a role here. The only thing that comes to mind is that of the three types of paladin, avengers would probably have the least compunctions about killing the dominated person if there was no other option readily available. They'd still want to try to save their ally, obviously, but if that began to feel impossible, well... Sometimes you need to get your hands dirty to eliminate evil. The other two paladins are both much more devoted to defending good, and the specifics of how they responded would be up to the individual character.</blockquote>

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