Dankus Memakus
2018-04-10, 08:49 AM
So we are playing a campaign that has heavy dark souls demon souls and other dark fantasy influences (ones I dont remember because i dont don't know what they are) anyway I have been building a paladin on this for a long time and I'm struggling with his oath. I am gonna give his backstory and then I need some opinions. (This is gonna be based alot more on flavor/roleplaying I don't care that much for the mechanics)
My paladin is a Dragonborn named Ferrous.
He started life as a human paladin who worked with 4 other paladins who performed their duties and helped many people. The world is dark so these paladins have to frequently protect the innocent and they were seen as powerful paragons of goodness. At some point however the group fell into a trap created by a mad alchemist. He began experimenting on the paladins attempting to make them super soldier's to follow his will. He used dragonblood to change them into something better. This works and gives each the worst trait of the Dragon that the paladin closely resembles eventually turning all to evil except my character. He is a black Dragonborn so I decided his trait was cowardice instead of the cruelty his creator intended. His cowardice causes him to run away and he finds himself in a strange land and he's attempting to help people. Maybe someday he will reverse his curse or embrace it but mainly he is attempting to overcome the cowardice that is ingrained in him since previously he was quite brave.
Now I really can't decide an oath for him at all. I thought vengeance but he does struggle with cowardice and I'm not sure if devotion fits super well either, like I said it's a dark souls like world. Not many to be devoted to anymore (although there was in his past) I have all the books and we can use any offical material so please suggest away.
Edit: I have trash grammar
My paladin is a Dragonborn named Ferrous.
He started life as a human paladin who worked with 4 other paladins who performed their duties and helped many people. The world is dark so these paladins have to frequently protect the innocent and they were seen as powerful paragons of goodness. At some point however the group fell into a trap created by a mad alchemist. He began experimenting on the paladins attempting to make them super soldier's to follow his will. He used dragonblood to change them into something better. This works and gives each the worst trait of the Dragon that the paladin closely resembles eventually turning all to evil except my character. He is a black Dragonborn so I decided his trait was cowardice instead of the cruelty his creator intended. His cowardice causes him to run away and he finds himself in a strange land and he's attempting to help people. Maybe someday he will reverse his curse or embrace it but mainly he is attempting to overcome the cowardice that is ingrained in him since previously he was quite brave.
Now I really can't decide an oath for him at all. I thought vengeance but he does struggle with cowardice and I'm not sure if devotion fits super well either, like I said it's a dark souls like world. Not many to be devoted to anymore (although there was in his past) I have all the books and we can use any offical material so please suggest away.
Edit: I have trash grammar