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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malhost Zormaeril" data-source="post: 3335255" data-attributes="member: 49669">Yes and no.  You may hold that alignment is a guideline; that may be so.  But there are two things to consider: First, alignment is not wholly subjective, since beings do radiate it.  Therefore there is a limit what people may get away with even if they think they're doing the right thing.  Lord Soth, for example, didn't think he had done anything particularly evil when he gave up on his holy quest, at least until he became an undead Death Knight...Second, a Paladin must not only uphold a LG alignment, but he must also uphold his god's tenets.  In this case, the tenets of the particular branch of Lothianism he professes.  I'm assuming mercy has some bigger part of it than in the branch his bishop professes.So if I were that paladin, considering that there is no practical way to take them to some sort of remote wilderness monastery where they could be raised as good creatures; and that there probably isn't any such monastery; and that the tadpoles are intelectually developed enough to understand they are being deliberately malicious, I'd smite them.  Then I'd do some penance helping fix up some peasant huts, perhaps, after the adventure is over, or some sort of religious pilgrimage.  At any rate, try to atone a bit.  That would be both interesting and a possible source of plot hooks.</blockquote>