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Why Should It Be Hard To Be A Paladin?
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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3139853" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>All true. But, if you ask the average man off the street to name characters from the Arthur story, one of the first few names to be mentioned will always be that of Lancelot. Therefore, despite the fact that he's a later addition, he can rightly be considered an key part of the story.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, I refer to the version of the story as most familiar to most people. In which the quest is for the Holy Grail, the vessel that caught the blood of Christ, and which can only be recovered by the most virtuous of knights. That the story's roots lie elsewhere is largely irrelevant.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because the story would suck if he didn't? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You know, I have a conversation very similar to this one every Christmas, when someone inevitably feels the need to point out that it was originally the Pagan midwinter festival that was taken and Christianised. As with that argument, my response here is that the roots do lie where you said, but the version of the tale known to most people is the Christianised version, and it was that version that forms the basis (in part) of the Paladin class. Hence my contention that said class is primarily inspired by Christian influences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3139853, member: 22424"] All true. But, if you ask the average man off the street to name characters from the Arthur story, one of the first few names to be mentioned will always be that of Lancelot. Therefore, despite the fact that he's a later addition, he can rightly be considered an key part of the story. Again, I refer to the version of the story as most familiar to most people. In which the quest is for the Holy Grail, the vessel that caught the blood of Christ, and which can only be recovered by the most virtuous of knights. That the story's roots lie elsewhere is largely irrelevant. Because the story would suck if he didn't? :) You know, I have a conversation very similar to this one every Christmas, when someone inevitably feels the need to point out that it was originally the Pagan midwinter festival that was taken and Christianised. As with that argument, my response here is that the roots do lie where you said, but the version of the tale known to most people is the Christianised version, and it was that version that forms the basis (in part) of the Paladin class. Hence my contention that said class is primarily inspired by Christian influences. [/QUOTE]
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