MichaelArkAngel
Explorer
Well was the paladin a member of a long existing order in the time where he came from ?
If so when he returns to his original time and becomes more important within his order he might be allouwed in on the secrets of the order, and discovering the order was funded becouse of the things they did in the past.
So the mass of folowers he hoped for is there in a way, just that it is the order he was already a part of.
Basicly try to loop things, so things they did in the past led to the world being the way it was when they left.
Actually he was a part of the order of the Gauntlet, but decided he didn't like some of the politics, so he decided he wanted to try to start his own order.
But it might merge with other stories, or a new King or ascendant religion might get jiggy with the proper nouns to insert an ancestor or saint or something into one of the PC's spots in the story...
Of course, that's more a post-modern way to look at history & legends.
I kind of like this idea, of the corrupt king stealing the paladins "thunder" per se' !
This sounds like a blast as well, as I do like to mess with the player characters, and throw that occasional "twist" in there!When the PCs return they find that the cult exists, but it is currently being run by the father of one of the PCs (because the father looked just like the PC of legend so mistakes were made). Further, because of the temporal shenanigans, the father left the PC's mother and married one (or more) of the cult members and sired a half-brother to the PC. It turns out, the father has chosen the half-brother as the cult's future leader.
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