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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 1954527" data-attributes="member: 1125">I once had a Paladin-like character (not DnD and no Paladin in the system) who was going through a crisis of faith. He truely beleived himself to be a soldier in the Army of Heaven and had earnest faith in the ArchAngel that lead said Army (and at one early point was spoken to by the ArchAngel). However due to changes elsewhere a Schism in the Church occurs the Emporer is appointed head of the 'True Church' and the ArchPrelate of the Church is stripped of her status. The Grand Inquisitor (an Order whose Patron is the aforementioned ArchAngel) then rebels calling on the faithful to join him and my chracter does so. Unfortunately he supported the losing side! and eventually the Grand Inquisitor is arested for Heresy! Anyway throughout this process he begins to question his faith and whether everything he was taught to beleive by the Church was true and indeed whether the gods really care about mortals. He prays to the ArchAngel but his Patron remains silent, after the Grand Inquistor is arrested he becomes cynical and fatalistic (a part from feeling persecuted lest the Imperial Guard is hunting him as an Inquistor).Anyway the point being that Fatalism as part of a backstory should not be 'Anti-Paladin', he may not be a shining example of unswerving submission, who questions the futility of it all and waxes melancholy about the endless battle with evil and that eventually it will kill him - but even a crisis of faith shows that faith is strong. He is walking the fine line between faith and the fall but then that is the very ground that a Paladin is called to walk</blockquote>

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