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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 489594" data-attributes="member: 2067">If Bahamut gives the power to those of divine blood, can he give power to evil people? Because, if he can, I don't think that he'd object to paladins hunting down and killing those few evil nobles that exist.If evil nobles can exist, than the Paladins should be able to hunt them down like anything...I'd actually let him get away with this for now...To a foriegner, he may not know that the gypsies were no threat -- he detected evil. It could have been fiends in human form for all he knew.Of course, he would still have to be repentant, sorrow-ridden, et al for doing it in the first place. Otherwise, you're perfectly justified in stripping him of his abilities. Alignment ain't a relative thing.Also, what he did amounts to vigilanteism....the same reason superheroes are often on the wrong side of the law...he wasn't working with authorities or in an ordered, organized fashion. He was going above and beyond the law of the land to do what he individually wanted...Again, the proper repentance could get his powers back...Perhaps the most grievous wrong he did in this act was to neglect his obligation to protect and defend, to lead by virtue, to champion the causes of the righteous downtrodden. He wasn't trying to convert them (that's what you do to evil sentients), he wasn't trying to stop them from doing something evil (which, even then, would mandate little killing), he was simply slaughtering the guilty. It was corrupt, power-mad, and violent...even if his job is to hunt down evil, why would he slaughter every trace of it? You must fight evil in the heart first of all, and then later in the embodiment. He must also think of how much evil he causes...were his actions going to inspire more hatred and fear and wickedness in those he was fighting?I would allow him to gain powers back if he was properly repentant, but if he still feels justified, have the church strip him of powers. He's violated the goodness of his faith, in exchange for power, chaos, and violence.Even fiends are deserving of a chance to repent...that's why the Paladin's Battle Cry is "Mercy to the Repentant!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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