A paladin who slips up in the execution of their god-given orders does not warrant the same level of personal attention by the gods as one who executes the legal ruler of their nation on a glorified hunch. I t is possible that some of the paladins who participated in the attack crossed the line. Suffice to say that the Twelve Gods are not beholden to put on the same visual display they did for Miko for every paladin who transgresses, and that all transgressions are not created equal. However, everything that happened is not necessarily seen. Is it any surprise she struggled to accept that she had made a mistake, with her entire life being full of a lack of negative reinforcement towards her bad behavior? Shinjo admits moments before his own death that he has 'had concerns' about Miko for years, but clearly was blowing them off until she was holding him at sword point.īy the metrics of the world she lives in, her obeying the 'letter' of what 'lawful good' means (destroying evil, upholding the law) was good enough, even if she trampled all over the spirit of it on a daily basis, up until she crossed a moral event horizon that made her behavior no longer acceptable to the gods that had been turning a blind eye to her behavior until then. People like Miko slaughtered entire tribes of goblinfolk (including innocent children) and have been for years before she was born, without losing their divine blessings, simply because the gods have a secret agenda that involves keeping the Dark One from accomplishing his own. She was permitted to act this way not just by the very gods who imbued her with the power to be such a bully, but by the people around her, who tolerated (if sometimes barely) her aggressive, murderous behavior because they felt that in the end, it served a greater good. The kind of person who plays a paladin so they can arrest the party thief for picking a lock in their line of sight, the meme everyone likes to hate on.īut on the other hand, you have to consider that within the setting itself, her behavior also a commentary on the concept of 'objective' morality that Lawful/Chaotic/Evil/Good implies. On the one hand, she's blatantly a kind of meta-commentary on players who play 'lawful stupid' characters, who think being lawful means strictly adhering to the law at the expense of all other considerations such as human dignity, pragmatism, or mercy.
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