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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1340184" data-attributes="member: 14403"><p>To hell with Websters definition.  Websters doesn't apply in a fantasy setting.  Do you think that the definition of a Paladin in the Forgotten Realms would be the same as IRL?  I see Paladins as champions of the divine or an ideal.  You need not be a Knight to be a champion.  Historically speaking to become a knight you had to have MONEY.  As I've said before, who is to say that a god might not select some kid living out in the sticks as his champion.  Would he make a good champion?  Possibly.  Is he a Knight?  Nope.  Biblically speaking were any of the heroes of the bible warriors of high birth?  Nope.  Typically (as in the case of David & Goliath) the champions of God were chosen from the poor.</p></blockquote><p></p>