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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 1498276" data-attributes="member: 10825">Or, heck, one of the best sources of inspiration for paladins out there, Arthurian myth. Just finished up "The Once and Future King," myself all of about an hour ago. Little geek that I am I was all throughout it giving a mental checklist of "probably a fighter," or "probably a paladin," because some of the things done are quite heinous indeed. Bedivere lops off his ladies head. Gawain kills a woman in a rage. Lancelot betrays his idol and friend Arthur by sleeping with his wife. Arthur kills a whole shipload of babies. Not to mention the evil members of the court, such as Mordred and Arglevaine (or whatever the fellows name is; currently dead tired and the books not handy at the moment), who murder their own mother. Yet there's still the pure members of the Round Table, such as Galahad, of course, but also Bors, Percival and Gareth. Associating with a group that's downright Chaotic at times, what with Lancelots well-known philandering and Gawain's vicious rages. Heck, Arthur, who but for one particularly atrocious sin, still comes off as being the epitome of a paladin, yet ultimately relies on Gawain to lean on in his later years. It need be remembered that paladins embody compassion and mercy; if they didn't, they'd be Lawful Neutral, or laying the smack down on Chaos over Evil. They're also strongly influenced by the fact that Might doesn't make Right. They won't turn a blind eye to evil, but generally know a decent fellow when they see one, and, in my mind, would prefer that individual be changed via example as opposed to force. As Arthurian myth shows, paladins can truck with those of an ale-sotted, adulterous nature, so long as they're striving for something more. I personally love paladins to death. Probably my favorite class, if not clerics. I do, however, see where some folk might be a bit grumblesome about them. Still, that's either from bad DM's, bad players, or just a limited interpretation of the class, in my opinion. A little flip through something with Superman and Batman, or Arthurian knights, will show that paladins aren't always the big downers people make them out to be. Why, Neil Gaimans "Chivalry" puts Galahad into a most splendid light, and is a wonderful little story to boot...</blockquote>

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