Hey, hoping for some input from other paladins and lore/RP people.
As far as I can see, the Paladin is a holy crusader tasked with fighting evil head-on. Honorable, valiant and just.
So how do I fit in the world when I am asked to go and collect some bird eggs to make omelettes or kill a tiger that the quest giver wants to skin and wear? (I know that is the nature of the game)
Just wondering how you JUSTify (wink) the more ‘‘menial’’ tasks in WoW to fit your character and if there is any scope for diversity with the role of the Paladin as all of the main lore ones stand beside Kings and Queens.
You just keep telling yourself that it is somehow helping to fight off evil, those animals nesingwary was hunting were clearly plotting against your people.
Well in terms of menial and non controversial tasks like picking up cherries for the local granny, you are just helping a helpless person even if it means picking up cherries.
If the task is controversial like killing animals for sport and not survival, then you have a choice to either abandon the quest and never do it, or find a reason you would undertake such a task, even if the reason doesn’t make any logical sense.
Don’t forget the Scarlet Crusade was a bunch of zealous psychopaths who slaughtered anything THEY deemed as evil and unholy but the Light still heeded their call.
The Light is not a force of good, the Light is a force of order and it answers to your willpower, not your ethics.
EXACTLY! When the devs were asked about how the light works, this was their answer:
From Ask CDev #1: “Without spoiling too much, we can tell you that wielding the Light is a matter of having willpower or faith in one’s own ability to do it.”
Explains why the humans of the Scarlet Crusade could wield the light despite their wicked nature.
As mentioned above, is up to you to find a reason to justify it in your head. Your code of ethics is personal after all.
Or you can just abandon the quests and never do them.
