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<blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3198596" data-attributes="member: 39593">I'd always sort of favored the idea that paladins weren't devoted to a deity but rather the alignment itself.&nbsp; Not a &quot;I lord of great and holy flaming badassitude appoint you to serve my will!&quot; more like a sort of tao like oneness with their alignment that the appropriate outer plane itself empowers them and leaks out onto the Material through their person.&nbsp; It's flavor sure but it helps seperate them from clerics when LG clerics have a rather similar place.&nbsp; Now they're divided more firmly again, clerics and paladins both have their own sort of slant and it makes it easier both to conflict within alignments between the two and distinguish between their manner.&nbsp; After all the deity in question may be Good but that doesn't necessarily mean that the ultimate expression of their alignment would have exactly the same view of things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeavenShallBurn, post: 3198596, member: 39593"] I'd always sort of favored the idea that paladins weren't devoted to a deity but rather the alignment itself. Not a "I lord of great and holy flaming badassitude appoint you to serve my will!" more like a sort of tao like oneness with their alignment that the appropriate outer plane itself empowers them and leaks out onto the Material through their person. It's flavor sure but it helps seperate them from clerics when LG clerics have a rather similar place. Now they're divided more firmly again, clerics and paladins both have their own sort of slant and it makes it easier both to conflict within alignments between the two and distinguish between their manner. After all the deity in question may be Good but that doesn't necessarily mean that the ultimate expression of their alignment would have exactly the same view of things. [/QUOTE]

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