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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SS" data-source="post: 3131701" data-attributes="member: 40136">A man who follows the light of his God, no matter the hazard.  He is a crusader, a defender, a paladin.After many days traversing a long snow covered trail up a mountainside, the paladin sees a temple off in the distance.  A small green oasis somehow sheltered from a frozen land of nothingness.  Surely it must be a divine providence, the reward of rest.  Approaching the temple with caution, he comes across a channel cut deep within the snow and ice that leads to the temple gates.  His chilled bones crack as he lifts a heavy hammer to sound a large gong.  Waiting to meet the occupants, he begins to nervously rub his holy symbol.  He attempts to sense the aura of evil.  He dose not feel the perversions of anything unnatural within his presence.  He snaps quickly to attention, as he catches his own nervous twitch and stops himself.  As he is greeted by a frail elderly man who introduces himself as Father Men'shoi.  Father Men'shoi welcomes the stranger into the temple, as they walk he begins telling the stranger "this is a place of worship and work.  Men communing together for a higher purpose, acceptance of these terms means you will never be asked to leave."  Father Men'shoi asks the stranger to wait alone in the common room until he can return with Father Mikhail Lanka.  A few minuets pass while the paladin is contemplating what his God could possibly want him to accomplish here.  The air chills, small hairs on the back of the paladin's neck stand on end.  He feels he is being watched.  He now knows what his God wants of him...When Father Men'shoi returns to the common room with Father Mikhail Lanka they are stunned and bewildered at the scene before them.  The stranger is holding a crystal by his outstretched hand.  Rays of unilluminating white light arc forward from the crystal to surround Father Obal Nayavovich.  (Father Obal Nayavovich is spiritual leader as well as a monastic ghost who had subsisted in the temple for decades.)  In the time it took them to enter the common room and take-in the events it was over, what had happened was done.  Father Obal Nayavovich was no more, a roll of smoke danced in the air.  As the paladin turned to see the two men standing behind him.  After witnessing what the stranger had done to their trusted friend, they attacked.  Pulling back their sleeves would be the last thing these monks would ever do...The paladin believed this temple to be a sanctuary of the profane.  It's halls would be unhallow no more.***The paladin in this story is an NPC that killed several monks and priests from my character's back story.  He is a lawful good paladin of a god that loathes the undead.  The monks and priests were all lawful neutral.  They did attack him first, but that was after the paladin killed/destroyed/imprisoned the monk-ghost.  Did the paladin commit a crime?  What should his punishment be?  Is he still a paladin?  Here's the kicker, the temple monks were the protectors of a small village population 40-50.  Without the monks the village will most definitely be ravaged by local goblins.  Is the paladin accountable for what happens to the village, even if he never knew it existed?***</blockquote>

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