| Subclass | Description |
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| Oathless | An oathless is a paladin who has abandoned or broken their oath, but has not fallen for dark powers. What light that remains within their heart burns still, but searches to be redeemed or to follow a new oath. |
| Oath of Darkness | The Oath of Darkness is one sworn in secrecy and with little flair. Paladins who take this oath are those who fight their enemies from within, capable of masking their true intentions to anyone and everyone. Some use this oath to appear as any common folk and defeat their enemies when they least expected, while others mask themselves as their enemies in order to gain and destroy their trust. |
| Oath of Delivery | Cause and Effect. Such was the original goal of taking upon the Oath of Delivery, but centuries have allowed various paladin orders to interpret the phrase in their own way. For many, these paladins are honor-bound messengers and deliverer of goods, traversing land and sea to ensure communication and trade maintains. Rare branches of these orders exist, with some found deep within the north to deliver great joy to the people of the world each year, while another takes their oath to ensure death is delivered to all those who seek to escape it. |
| Oath of Erudition | The Oath of Erudition binds its paladins to the protection and spreading of knowledge. These paladins train to become living libraries, searching for the truth while teaching those who wish to learn. Such followers of this oath must maintain the liberty of knowledge and preserve it, preventing its destruction while maintaining it is also not left forgotten. |
| Oath of Humility | The Oath of Humility has a paladin strive to keep themselves in the shadows, ensuring that their acts of good are left without an owner. Paladins who dedicate themselves to this oath have their allies given full appreciation of their work, and that their own is nothing but a small piece in the accomplished goal. Paladins of this oath rarely talk about their deeds, as one who helps others has no need to discuss or brag about their acts. |
| Oath of Love | Those who swear upon love swear to fight against hatred, bigotry, and discrimination. Be it building love through acts of charity, acts of passions, or through acts of camaraderie on the battlefield, these paladins sow the seeds of love and hope within the folks they meet, feeding it so that the places they leave are ones devoid of spite and hatred, but one filled with joy and aspiration. |
| Oath of Power | Those who follow the oath of power are often fanatics of war, folks who seek to improve their station, or devout followers to a god of strength. There nevertheless exist individuals who swear upon this oath for good intentions, seeking to improve themselves in order to avenge what they lost, to regain what was once rightfully theirs, or to take down the unsurmountable. |
| Oath of the Hearth | Those bound to the Oath of the Hearth are sworn to be caregivers of those in need. When others may fall into the paths of despair and loss, it is up to a Paladin of the Hearth to aid them in their time of need. They spread with them the rules of hospitality, and wield a heavy hand towards those who may break them. |
| Oath of the Hunt | The Oath of the Hunt calls upon its paladin to be the protectors of civilization against the creatures that would prey upon them. When a bane against progress would rear its fangs towards civilization, a Hunter is soon to follow and quell the threat. They ensure nature is preserved and maintained, and fight back against the ancient tyrants that were dragons and giants. |
| Oath of the Valkyries | The Oath of the Valkyries is one that shares its birth with the rise of necromancy. Referred to as Reapers to those who refuse their mortality, paladins that swear upon this oath accept their limited time within the world and wish to uphold the inevitability of death. They vow emnity against the beings who bestow themselves corrupted immortality, their fervor for the destruction of undead the strongest compared to other oaths. Those who aid these paladins in their struggles rarely die in battle, blessed to die instead when they are needed on the other side. |
