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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 1955603" data-attributes="member: 3109">Yes.   And it's about the only kind of Paladin I'll allow. Not that every one has to be that particular brand, but I will not have another would-be Lancelot playing up the Victorian notion of honor. Please! Any Paladin that doesn't experience any conflict from the extreme dichotomy of his nature is not a Paladin--he is an extremist.   The rules only say the Paladin has to uphold a code of conduct. Nowhere does it say which one, or what types of restrictions it entails. Moreover, nowhere does it say that the code of honor of the order is the same as that expected by the god. Plenty of religious groups take on stricter interpretations that are expressly doctrinal. That does not make the stricter interpretation the correct one. It simply makes it the conventions of the order, which the Paladin is not required to follow.    So the order on a whole very well could follow those strict tenets. Sir Cedric is the incomprehensible mystery. He flouts those conventions, but still is empowered by the god. Maybe he even has greater gifts than other members of the order. Maybe there are some tasks at which only he of the whole order can succeed. And neither he nor they understand why.  The most important thing that is missing is a solid backstory explaining how he came into his Paladinhood. Did he run from his calling in the pattern of Jonah, only to finally yield after being tormented by his god, then finally accede defiantly, "I'll do your work and follow your word, but you will have no hold over that part that is not yours!" Some would say that's not a true Paladin. I say read a book about the called of god that dates back before the 19th century. The further the better.</blockquote>

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