How to play a Good Guy: A Guide to Paladin Characters

would you say a Nord can be a paladin, im just making a new warrior/paladin type class now. not sure what one to pick i like them both. Nords would naturally choose storm cloaks and imperial the empire.

what would you say?

 

I like your build idea for a sword and shield bearing paladin. The one thing I would like to add to this post is this: anyone can be good, regardless of their skillset. Whether you are a mage wielding all the powers of arcaneum or a knight in shining plate armor you have the capacity to be good. Even a thief can be good, Robin Hood was the defender of the weak and poor after all.

All it takes to be good is making the right decision. We all know what is right and what is wrong, and doing the wrong thing in life is always accompanied by guilt. If we make our character feel the same things we would feel, then I know that we would all be righteous heroes.

 

Wards are great for fighting mages... and shields are great for warriors... Which one to chose? If you will be fighting both constantly all you need is spellbreaker, a shield that creates a ward... great for fighting them annoying thalmor

 

Personally, I see no problem in doing the one Daedric quest (Break of Dawn). Meridia is known for being not being evil and despising Undead. I've roleplayed as her champion many times, a kind of Paladin-esque class. Using wards as shields against necromancers, switching to a regular shield when fighting undead (with Dawnbreaker of course).

Breton's are a good race to use for this class under the Warrior Stone. Get some Steel Plate armour, enchant it with Magic resistance and Fortify 1H/Block/Restoration, you should be rolling along nicely. Don't forget to use Dragonskin either

 

My character is an interesting Blend of a Death knight and Paladin, who suffers from split personality disorder. I used the Ogmha glitch, mainly because I value adventure and storyline much more than the leveling aspect of an rpg. This allowed me to take not only the perks for a paladin, but also grab conjuration and becaome a death knight whever I wish. However I never use both, have a set of daedric for his death knight side and dragonbone for his Paladin side. This allows me to do every quest either as good or evil and ggives me two character arch types to play. This also makes the game challenging because not only am I on master, but I face max level mobs and I only use portions of my skill tree at a time. I like it and it allowed me to take the role playing and adventure to a level I never have in skyrim. Everything from house, to fallower, to which people I kill or help on the road varies with my personality swap.

Oh and there is physically no way to get around it, you must become Sheogorath's champion.

 

The Companions? Bad guys? Hissss.

 

You could also rp that your paladin is now helping the empire in keeping the peace, but after the events in skyrim he planned to star purifying the empire from the inside.

 

Actually i don't use wards since it drains a lot of mana. I'm using shield of ysgramor right now with the lord stone and ring of major blocking. It is more than enough to block almost all kind of attacks.

This guide helped me a lot. I read this when i was level 10+ so my game had a direction now. My character now is level 41. Maxed 1 hand and block.

For me i decided not to enchant my weapons and armors to add difficulty and challenge. I also decided to download the UFO mod PISE mod which makes me have 15 followers at max and much more intense difficulty than master level.

I think joining companions is a great way to start your dawnguard quest. Since before you meet this dawnguard peeps you are already slaying these vampires. So when you meet this dawnguard dudes it will be kinda epic. The old vampire slayers and the new ones joining force together. Dawnguards will learn from your past experience, and you will learn new killing moves from their new found weapons and techniques. EPIC!

Having said that, i think i will create a team of 3. A team that will be fighting these vampires. And i chose Vilkas and Aela. Vilkas will cover for the high damage i can't deal while Aela will be sniping from far away, the perfect team. If this sounds easy since i have 2 followers, well as i have said above i downloaded the PISE mod which will make my game harder. It makes master difficulty 2x more difficult. Plus with much better enemy AI, increased in level and spawns.

Though, my only problem now is the weapon. Kinda grew tired of Dawnbreaker. I need a new and stronger weapon. Though, i cannot enhance :|

 

very true but you musn't forget the thalmor are just the mer in the high ranks of the aldmeri dominiom and dont represent all altmers

 

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what about merunes dagon, yes he's got to be one of the evilist but you can completly defy him and spare the muesium guy, ( i may also add his ancestors were mithic dawn, and he weres mithic dawn robes and he very well may be an enthusists himself . but he may just be proud of his heritige. but you can still kill him when you defy the deadra lord ) i spared him defyed merunes dagon, killedthe deadra he throws at you then pickpocketed the pieces of the razor and fus-ro-da them of the throat of the world.

i ended up refinding the hilt near ivarstead, and hid it in bleek falls barrow

 

Okay so... You are saying in your first post on this thread that the only no evil joinable faction is the college. Not the penitus oculatus? All you have to do to join, is when you're in the shack with Astrid, kill her.

 

Generally paladins used maces. Also restoration just fits and its loads of fun to tank with. Alteration is also nice for flesh spells and the light spells. I use steel plate armor.

 

What about a Greatsword for a paladin, like Siegfried and his weapon from the Soul series?

 

I would say any race could be a paladin. A paladin isnt about race its about what they believe in. You could worship any god or all of them. You just have to do good deeds and the gods will bless you.

 

I just found this thread actually via google. Just checking out "skyrim paladin" basically. I just wanted to say -
I do agree with a whole lot of this build, and I think it's great. However, the racism/ehtnocentricities against certain species of the game - Argonians, Nords, Khajiit, doesn't seem fair. It seems more stereotyping to the "norm" rather than having a species that still has "lawful good" characters. Just because there is a stereotype doesn't necessarily mean that species or race as a whole is evil or bad.

Also, about the Companions, and their Circle of Werewolves in general. What makes one evil? If there is a lawful-good character that happens to be associated with the Great Hunt, and is a werewolf does that necessarily make that person now unlawful, or evil? When my character transforms into a werewolf, I still have complete control over him as a character. Why would he be "evil" even when he doesn't perform unlawful, let alone evil acts? Just because everyone in their right mind are scared of werewolves because of feral ones giving them a bad name, doesn't mean my werewolf is necessarily evil.

And technically, to the mythological sense, is a Companion Werewolf truly a "werewolf" then? I consider them more shapeshifters. The moon has zero control over my character. It's his choice when to change, and when to not, and again, like I said previously - he has full control of his actions.

My paladins, are Companions, moreover they are Harbinger. They both have the alignment lawful-good, both are Nords, both are dovakiin as well. One fights for the Empire, one fights for the Stormcloaks and a sovereign Skyrim. That's their only real difference.

I also feel it's a Paladin's duty to serve, with the side they feel is just - be it Imperial or Stormcloak in the Civil War. Just with almost any Civil War, what makes a side just or unjust? It's their personal beliefs that dictate it.

as for weapon-types. It depends on if one follows the strict rules of D&D. I don't. This isn't D&D, it's Elder Scrolls. One of my Nord Paladins is a two-handed great weapons fighter, the other is more "traditional" axe and shield, but it's an axe, not a mace. Axes seem more "Nord."

I believe it's the lawful good that's more important than anything. Race, "special talents" etc, matter little.

this is the only reason why I selected "disagree" with the first post by "Spectre of Skyrim" but I did hit "like" as well. Beyond that though, I think it's great there is a thread discussing Paladins, and I hope my addition will help spur the conversation again.

 

I've also started playing a Paladin (Imperial, looks like Arthas Menethil) and see him as Lawful Good. Focus is on One-Handed, Block, Heavy Armor, Restoration, Alteration, Smithing and Enchanting, though I'll brew potions as well (but not stick any points in Alchemy).

For armor I'll try to stick to normal looking stuff (so no orcish, ebony and daedric unless I find mods that make them more paladin-y), weapon will be the Dawnbreaker, shield the Spellbreaker.

- I've joined the Companions and have become a werewolf, to experience the curse that Kodlak and Farkas feel like it is, then help them overcome it and cure myself as well.
- The College will also be joined, for it's a good place to learn better Restoration- and Alteration spells, plus saving Nirn from that floating bomb is an act of goodness.
- I will do Aventino's quest, because for all my paladin knows, Grelod is an evil character who needs to be punished (though he'll frown when he sees the boy chanting over some bones and flesh...) so that I can later kill Astrid and destroy the Dark Brotherhood.
- The Bards strike me as neutral, so I might as well join them too.
- Dawnguard needs no explanation.

- I will ignore the Thieves Guild and tell Brynjolf I'll report him to the guards. No idea what will happen when I say those words, because all my chars have joined so far.
- Dark Brotherhood will be destroyed.
- I will ignore the daedric Princes (except for Meridia, Peryite, Azura (black star) *** and Hircine (to slay the werewolf)), means, for example, that the Boethian priest in Markarth will receive no help from me. Boethiah is evil, so up yours, priest.

I'm unsure about joining the army as I don't want to kill men solely because they chose to ally themselves with Ulfric. Might as well flatout ignore it and go for Season Unending, where I'll force them to negotiate a peace. Much better that way.

I serve the entire pantheon of the Divines, including Talos, which means I will kill all Thalmor I see on the road, partly because Men should be allowed to worship Talos, but mostly because the Thalmor kidnap and torture people at random on the mere feeling of those people worshipping Talos. This will not do. They must die.

*** I will roleplay gaining the Black Star as the ultimate judgement imposed on truly evil characters, like vampires and raiding bandit lords. Their deeds were so vile that their souls were beyond redemption, but can now serve the good cause by recharging my Dawnbreaker.