I'm just curious to read about paladin character stories, specifically any dieity's or royals y'all serve. My Paladin serves the Queen of Air and Darkness as an Oath of the Ancients, a human lad that ended up stuck in the feywild as a young fella, and serves her in exchange for his family being safe. It's a rather unenthusiastic servitude. What are the stories for your characters?
I don't have a Paladin myself, but in my group we got a dwarven Vengeance Paladin. He serves his king and is tasked to take care of an entry in the book of grudges by hunting down and retrieving a stolen artefact. Classic stuff but sometimes the classics are the best. ^^
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Without getting into the detailed backstory, mine is a Fallen Aasimar Vengeance Paladin that's the only survivor of his murdered village. So the typical drive for vengeance and need to make up for his falling to protect his home.
I have an idea for a paladin I'd like to play; she's a dragonborn with battle dragon ancestry, so she loves to fight.
She has no faith as such, but a local order of knights saw the benefit in trying to steer her love of battle towards a positive cause. I haven't decided yet if the order will serve a specific god, or if they're really just opposed to evil in the general sense, but either way she serves the order rather than their ideals. This makes her chaotic good in a weird way (she's fighting for good at the moment but if it came down to it she'd be just as happy fighting for anyone, so her current alignment is more a reflection of who she works for than herself).
It was a toss up between oath of conquest and oath of glory for me; I think glory would fit battle dragons in the general sense, as one aspect of them is boasting about their achievements, making them kind of almost like draconic bards, but I think for this character I'm very much about the "loves to fight, hates to lose" angle, so probably not as boastful; she'd rather start a new fight than talk about a past one.
I am going to play a black dragonborn oath of vengeance Paladin who serves the raven queen by trying to exterminate undead and people who try to achieve immortality
Mind started out as a Druid of Talos who was chastised for never casting any lightning spells (never had any adventures where it would fit to use call lightning)...and morphed into a vengeance paladin of Talos bent on destruction with his Black Razor weapon.
My dwarf swore an Oath of Ancients to a forest deity that ended up being the wrong one. The shaman overseeing his communing ritual did so in an area they thought would reach their tribe's spirit but instead summoned a much more ancient local entity to his vision. Not knowing the difference, my paladin knelt in front of essentially a Leshen and swore an oath to protect nature. It silently accepted and then disappeared.
When he came out of the trance and described the interaction, the shaman's face went white with a "that's definitely not right" kind of look.
Now he goes from being this super chill dwarf just trying to see the world to an absolute mad lad ready to throw hands the second someone litters.
My character is Maledict, a LE Human Paladin of Bane born in Zhentil Keep.
Born in 1458 DR in Zhentil Keep, Maledict [MALAY-dict] made his very first kill on the lap of his dying mother. With unknown father or family, he was immediately placed in a Zentish orphanage, being rejected from the very first day of his life. At a young age, the orphan was given to the local temple, the Black Altar of Bane, being too turbulent and vengeful to others, facing another rejection. During his teenage, Maledict followed Bane’s clerical teachings but ended up rejected yet again by the Banites, unable to cast cantrips and be full cleric, being doomed to never be anything more than half spellcaster.
Maledict then enrolled as a Zentilar soldier, getting up to marshal rank, a city law official having charge of prisoners or fugitives, to bring them back to justice or execute them for those wanted dead, or alive, preferring the former than the latter. Ready to do the dirty work, Maledict did many public executions with his long axe and black hood. As a headsman, he understood the difference between an executioner and a cut-throat was only which side of the law they stood, both having the contract to kill people from the criminal underworld or the authorities.
Maledict was recently decommissioned following disciplinary measures due to his orientation not accepted by Zentilar and was once again rejected. He finally left his home town with a chip on his shoulder’s badge, mad against the world, vowing enmity and cursing at anyone who’d stand in his way with his reknown Zentish accent. Now a loyal but ruthless axe-for-hire,
Maledict headed to the Dalelands, looking for mercenary work and offering his service as executioner or bounty hunter for any fugitive wanted dead, or alive. Looking for a new start elsewhere, ready to experience new adventures and perhaps find people that would accept him how he is rather than reject him.
My current and first Paladin character has been though a lot in the last year. Originally a Dragonborn Bard now a Paladin/Fighter whom now serves under Bahamut. My DM and I brought some old school lore into our homebrew campaign giving my character a speedy version of The Right of Rebirth changing him from a black dragonborn into a Platinum (mechanically a silver) dragonborn. I started with a homebrew oath from someone else but we have recently realized that it was a bit too overpowered. Currently creating my own subclass into our own version shaped by some more lore The Talons of Justice.
My Paladin, Sir Augustus Zyltar, is the second son of Count Zyltar. He would become a Baron when his father dies because his older brother would ascend to the seat of a Count and leave his own Barony seat vacant to be taken by his brother.
Therefore he serves his Father, Count Zyltar of Aramay, his family and the King. He is a devout man but that is not a central theme of who he is. He is a Noble, and beyond that, he is a noble that will receive a title. He believes in the Nobility and Feudalism in its romantic sense; he believes as a noble he is required to defend the people of his lands. He believes in the romantic notion that as a Noble he has a duty to live up to the Code of Chivalry.
As a noble, he lives a life of privilege that he doesn't fully comprehend. He believes the reason people give him an apple or some such small curtesy is because they are thankful that there are Nobles to protect them, when more often they do this to curry favor fearing that they will be wrongly accused of something later in life. His romantic view of the Nobility would suggest to him any noble is telling the truth over a commoner or a serf. Of course, such is not the case.
In fact, his first excursion is to a land nearby where along the way he crosses paths with a noble that acts very counter to the Code of Chivalry. This slightly older noble paladin, The Baron Drake, is in a similar situation except he is the first son of his father and already seated as a Baron. However, due to something, the Baron Drake believes he needs to unseat his own father immediately and take his father's seat immediately. Augustus has the Baron arrested to stand trial for conspiracy against his father, the Marquis Drake. The trial must be conducted at a place chosen by the king. Augustus and his captives, the Baron and one surviving bodyguard, are just traveling between towns at the time. Augustus delivers this Baron to the City of Haldrow under Baron Vincos, his father's Baron. A group of soldiers are tasked with taking Baron Drake further but the Baron escapes. Now there is serious bad blood between the two jurisdictions; The Marquis Drake and Count Zyltar. Fortunately, since Augustus tried to handle everything "by the book", the King has no reason to admonish the Count and his family.
Where will the Baron Drake turn up? What will the Marquis Drake do? What is Augustus to do now that he is unwelcome in the Marquis' lands to the north?
There are other story beats, but these are the central beats for Augustus.
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I had a Tiefling Vengeance Paladin of the Raven Queen with a haunted one background. He of course, protected the sanctity of death by working against and hunting undead, but he also collected the artifacts of the dead to collect memories for the Raven Queen. He was part of an order dedicated to her called the Order of the Porcelain Mask.
He was born very sickly and grew up in a place that trafficked, knowingly with devils in the far past. His parents prayed for his health and eventually their prayers were heard and he started to become healthier though not without scars. A plague struck his homeland and many people fled his homeland and became refugees trying to find a new home. Though a dreary background, his parents lived but they are haunted by the memories
My next paladin will be a Wood Elf Paladin of Vengeance dedicated to Silvanus. However, he'll also be a Hexblade Warlock in a pact with Yad-Thaddag, the only Elder God of the Cthulhu Mythos that is benevolent to Life.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, totally worn out & proclaiming "WOW, what a ride!" - Unknown
When life is bleak, all hope is lost, a wall is at your back, you always have one option left...attack! Attack! ATTACK! - Me
I haven't used him yet, but I have a kobold conquest paladin I've thrown together who grew up worshipping Bahamut because he wanted to be a Real Dragon™ when he grew up, and now that he's grown up and still isn't a dragon, he's pissed about it, has converted to worshipping Tiamat, and is making it everyone else's problem. He figures that by showing how powerful he can be in Tiamat's name, she'll do what Bahamut would not.
Keep in mind that a paladin doesn't technically have to serve anyone specific.
That being said, I've got a paladin that I haven't played yet. I wanted to make a mercenary that fights in the name of the Raven Queen. They're a Shadar-kai from the Shadowfell. I plan to go oath of vengeance with a hexblade warlock dip. I'll also grab fey touched, which combined with Shadar-kai would give them several free teleports each day.
For a lev3 4.5 hour one shot tomorrow. Fharlanghn is his god. He is a True Neutral Paladin with Oath of vengeance and is and all about wiping out slavers. He'll be happy to take out some road bandits or pirates...since they too restrict people's freedom and right to travel. He lost his brother to ilthid slavers.
My Paladin serves Torm as the God of Duty, as he feels that he failed beyond forgiveness in his previous duties as a legionnaire of the realm. His regiment failed to defend a town against a demonic invasion and a lot of people died because of it, including his best friend. He turned to drink for several years after, before finding himself in the temple. A Paladin saw potential for his redemption and recruited him to serve once more, this time as a Paladin himself. He trained for several more years before taking an oath of vengeance, to fight the greater evils of the world, to combat the forces of darkness where ever they emerge. No mercy given to the wicked on this plan or the next, swearing to accomplish this mission by any means necessary, even it it meant forfeiting his own life to do so. Where he once failed in his duty to protect innocent life from the armies of the nine hells, he vowed in his life or with his death to defend those unable to defend themselves in service to Torm from that day forward.
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I'm just curious to read about paladin character stories, specifically any dieity's or royals y'all serve. My Paladin serves the Queen of Air and Darkness as an Oath of the Ancients, a human lad that ended up stuck in the feywild as a young fella, and serves her in exchange for his family being safe. It's a rather unenthusiastic servitude. What are the stories for your characters?
I don't have a Paladin myself, but in my group we got a dwarven Vengeance Paladin. He serves his king and is tasked to take care of an entry in the book of grudges by hunting down and retrieving a stolen artefact. Classic stuff but sometimes the classics are the best. ^^
I've never encountered a forum where I got this many "talking to a wall" impressions as this one...
Without getting into the detailed backstory, mine is a Fallen Aasimar Vengeance Paladin that's the only survivor of his murdered village. So the typical drive for vengeance and need to make up for his falling to protect his home.
I have an idea for a paladin I'd like to play; she's a dragonborn with battle dragon ancestry, so she loves to fight.
She has no faith as such, but a local order of knights saw the benefit in trying to steer her love of battle towards a positive cause. I haven't decided yet if the order will serve a specific god, or if they're really just opposed to evil in the general sense, but either way she serves the order rather than their ideals. This makes her chaotic good in a weird way (she's fighting for good at the moment but if it came down to it she'd be just as happy fighting for anyone, so her current alignment is more a reflection of who she works for than herself).
It was a toss up between oath of conquest and oath of glory for me; I think glory would fit battle dragons in the general sense, as one aspect of them is boasting about their achievements, making them kind of almost like draconic bards, but I think for this character I'm very much about the "loves to fight, hates to lose" angle, so probably not as boastful; she'd rather start a new fight than talk about a past one.
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I am going to play a black dragonborn oath of vengeance Paladin who serves the raven queen by trying to exterminate undead and people who try to achieve immortality
Mind started out as a Druid of Talos who was chastised for never casting any lightning spells (never had any adventures where it would fit to use call lightning)...and morphed into a vengeance paladin of Talos bent on destruction with his Black Razor weapon.
My warforged paladin’s oath is the programming installed by the captain of his Spelljammer ship. I am programmed to protect ship and crew
My dwarf swore an Oath of Ancients to a forest deity that ended up being the wrong one. The shaman overseeing his communing ritual did so in an area they thought would reach their tribe's spirit but instead summoned a much more ancient local entity to his vision. Not knowing the difference, my paladin knelt in front of essentially a Leshen and swore an oath to protect nature. It silently accepted and then disappeared.
When he came out of the trance and described the interaction, the shaman's face went white with a "that's definitely not right" kind of look.
Now he goes from being this super chill dwarf just trying to see the world to an absolute mad lad ready to throw hands the second someone litters.
My character is Maledict, a LE Human Paladin of Bane born in Zhentil Keep.
My current and first Paladin character has been though a lot in the last year. Originally a Dragonborn Bard now a Paladin/Fighter whom now serves under Bahamut. My DM and I brought some old school lore into our homebrew campaign giving my character a speedy version of The Right of Rebirth changing him from a black dragonborn into a Platinum (mechanically a silver) dragonborn. I started with a homebrew oath from someone else but we have recently realized that it was a bit too overpowered. Currently creating my own subclass into our own version shaped by some more lore The Talons of Justice.
My Paladin, Sir Augustus Zyltar, is the second son of Count Zyltar. He would become a Baron when his father dies because his older brother would ascend to the seat of a Count and leave his own Barony seat vacant to be taken by his brother.
Therefore he serves his Father, Count Zyltar of Aramay, his family and the King. He is a devout man but that is not a central theme of who he is. He is a Noble, and beyond that, he is a noble that will receive a title. He believes in the Nobility and Feudalism in its romantic sense; he believes as a noble he is required to defend the people of his lands. He believes in the romantic notion that as a Noble he has a duty to live up to the Code of Chivalry.
As a noble, he lives a life of privilege that he doesn't fully comprehend. He believes the reason people give him an apple or some such small curtesy is because they are thankful that there are Nobles to protect them, when more often they do this to curry favor fearing that they will be wrongly accused of something later in life. His romantic view of the Nobility would suggest to him any noble is telling the truth over a commoner or a serf. Of course, such is not the case.
In fact, his first excursion is to a land nearby where along the way he crosses paths with a noble that acts very counter to the Code of Chivalry. This slightly older noble paladin, The Baron Drake, is in a similar situation except he is the first son of his father and already seated as a Baron. However, due to something, the Baron Drake believes he needs to unseat his own father immediately and take his father's seat immediately. Augustus has the Baron arrested to stand trial for conspiracy against his father, the Marquis Drake. The trial must be conducted at a place chosen by the king. Augustus and his captives, the Baron and one surviving bodyguard, are just traveling between towns at the time. Augustus delivers this Baron to the City of Haldrow under Baron Vincos, his father's Baron. A group of soldiers are tasked with taking Baron Drake further but the Baron escapes. Now there is serious bad blood between the two jurisdictions; The Marquis Drake and Count Zyltar. Fortunately, since Augustus tried to handle everything "by the book", the King has no reason to admonish the Count and his family.
Where will the Baron Drake turn up? What will the Marquis Drake do? What is Augustus to do now that he is unwelcome in the Marquis' lands to the north?
There are other story beats, but these are the central beats for Augustus.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
I had a Tiefling Vengeance Paladin of the Raven Queen with a haunted one background. He of course, protected the sanctity of death by working against and hunting undead, but he also collected the artifacts of the dead to collect memories for the Raven Queen. He was part of an order dedicated to her called the Order of the Porcelain Mask.
He was born very sickly and grew up in a place that trafficked, knowingly with devils in the far past. His parents prayed for his health and eventually their prayers were heard and he started to become healthier though not without scars. A plague struck his homeland and many people fled his homeland and became refugees trying to find a new home. Though a dreary background, his parents lived but they are haunted by the memories
My next paladin will be a Wood Elf Paladin of Vengeance dedicated to Silvanus. However, he'll also be a Hexblade Warlock in a pact with Yad-Thaddag, the only Elder God of the Cthulhu Mythos that is benevolent to Life.
Should be quite a ride.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, totally worn out & proclaiming "WOW, what a ride!"
- Unknown
When life is bleak, all hope is lost, a wall is at your back, you always have one option left...attack! Attack! ATTACK!
- Me
I haven't used him yet, but I have a kobold conquest paladin I've thrown together who grew up worshipping Bahamut because he wanted to be a Real Dragon™ when he grew up, and now that he's grown up and still isn't a dragon, he's pissed about it, has converted to worshipping Tiamat, and is making it everyone else's problem. He figures that by showing how powerful he can be in Tiamat's name, she'll do what Bahamut would not.
Keep in mind that a paladin doesn't technically have to serve anyone specific.
That being said, I've got a paladin that I haven't played yet. I wanted to make a mercenary that fights in the name of the Raven Queen. They're a Shadar-kai from the Shadowfell. I plan to go oath of vengeance with a hexblade warlock dip. I'll also grab fey touched, which combined with Shadar-kai would give them several free teleports each day.
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My human paladin serves Bane because he's lawful evil, vengeful and come from Zhentil Keep.
My human male Paladin serves the God Sedge .... Sposta and that old rosed dragon with a rainbow-ish chest ( I forgot her name ).
Those are good Gods/Godesses when they don't try to punish me on forums... hehehehe
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For a lev3 4.5 hour one shot tomorrow. Fharlanghn is his god. He is a True Neutral Paladin with Oath of vengeance and is and all about wiping out slavers. He'll be happy to take out some road bandits or pirates...since they too restrict people's freedom and right to travel. He lost his brother to ilthid slavers.
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My Paladin serves Torm as the God of Duty, as he feels that he failed beyond forgiveness in his previous duties as a legionnaire of the realm. His regiment failed to defend a town against a demonic invasion and a lot of people died because of it, including his best friend. He turned to drink for several years after, before finding himself in the temple. A Paladin saw potential for his redemption and recruited him to serve once more, this time as a Paladin himself. He trained for several more years before taking an oath of vengeance, to fight the greater evils of the world, to combat the forces of darkness where ever they emerge. No mercy given to the wicked on this plan or the next, swearing to accomplish this mission by any means necessary, even it it meant forfeiting his own life to do so. Where he once failed in his duty to protect innocent life from the armies of the nine hells, he vowed in his life or with his death to defend those unable to defend themselves in service to Torm from that day forward.