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Thrythlind — Paladin Alignment

Published: 2013-06-30 13:17:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 3747; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 17
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Description There is a derth of actual fictional paladins. So I stretched a bit and used fanon or early character interpretation but here we go.

Legal - misunderstands Lawful as being about Civil and Criminal Law. Thus will be about following the rules of society more than personal discipline and honor.

Awful - will often seem not to be acting to the Lawful alignment at all, will make some actions to maintain a superficial connection to their stated alignment

Nice - misunderstands Good as being Nice. Or focuses only on being good to a small segment of the population such as their friends or family.

Stupid - refuses to do common sense things because they're not "Good" or uses rationalizations such as "Well I believe he's evil, so killing him is good whether or not my character is correct."
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Comments: 8

MitchellTF [2013-08-14 22:21:39 +0000 UTC]

Don't forget that Michael Carpenter has six kids.

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Strumwulf [2013-07-06 06:10:09 +0000 UTC]

Also check David's Eddings Elenium series. Sparhawk is one of my favorite examples of a paladin type character.

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Thrythlind In reply to Strumwulf [2013-07-06 06:19:16 +0000 UTC]

good or slightly off ideal...because I found several excellent examples (when all I needed was one) what I was having difficulty with was finding paladins that were a little bit off the ideal

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Ashavara [2013-06-30 18:00:08 +0000 UTC]

nice though I don't recognize most of these. The fictional paladins I am most familiar with from be the Deed of Paksenarrion which was written apparently as a reaction after the author listened to a someone role-play a Paladin and though such a character wouldn't act that why and of course David Webber's the war god's own.

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Thrythlind In reply to Ashavara [2013-06-30 23:10:56 +0000 UTC]

Though I learned about Deed and it's apparent inspiration while looking for characters.

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Thrythlind In reply to Ashavara [2013-06-30 22:01:32 +0000 UTC]

Haven't read those two books yet...I used mostly characters I thought would be easily recognizable to the roleplaying set.

one is from one of the dungeons and dragons movie and would be pretty much unknown....but D&D players like to moan about it

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Khymerion [2013-06-30 13:46:02 +0000 UTC]

This definitely brought a smile to my face when I read it. Well done.

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Thrythlind In reply to Khymerion [2013-06-30 14:35:02 +0000 UTC]

thank you for the comment

^_^

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