#Oath of Vengeance Paladin

[vixstarria]

I’m enjoying your snippets. I guess I have a prompt, or more like a scene that made me giggle.

Imagine Tav is a paladin who took the oath of vengeance. Except she’s very new and bubbly. So after finding out Astarion is a vampire spawn and he was tortured by his master, she excitedly vows to personally make Cazador suffer in excruciating detail. Astarion’s like, “Uh…thanks?”

I can’t stop laughing at the thought of Astarion being protected by a small, bubbly paladin that’s vibrating with excitement to avenge Astarion. Like a bloodthirsty squirrel.

Ha! I love the idea. Thought I'd bring out the whole gang for this one though.

I'll stick this one under a cut for uhh... some lighthearted gore.

The tiny paladin stalked around the campfire, having worked herself up into a righteous fury. Short of 5 feet, she made up for her stature with sheer vigor.

"We'll tear out his tongue. Then we'll tie him up. Throw him somewhere with just his feet out in the sun, and wait for it to slowly burn and consume him, from the bottom up, inch by inch," she ranted.

Wyll grimaced and lowered his spoon back down into his bowl, before it reached his mouth, just as Astarion let out a delighted laugh.

"Simply wonderful, my dear! Are there any other miseries you'd like to bestow on him, before his eventual demise?"

"Hmm," Tav paused, briefly. "Lae'zel, are there any good githyanki torture methods you would suggest?"

"I am not aware of anything specific to vampires," Lae'zel mulled over Tav's question. "But the regular routines should work on an incapacitated vampire just as well. His natural regeneration will only aid in making it last longer."

"Would that really work?" Shadowheart asked Gale in between sips of her wine. "Leaving a partial shield over a vampire and spot-burning him?"

"That is an excellent question," said Gale. "In theory, it depends on whether it is the literal energy of and exposure to the sun that causes the damage, or the more ambivalent idea of what the sun represents - goodness, righteousness, divinity - which may only need to touch a small part of an evil entity such as a vampire, to set the entire creature ablaze. I don't know the answer, but I could write to some of my colleagues, who have 'shed light' onto vampires, so to speak. Come to think of it-"

"Are you going to eat that?" Karlach pointed at Wyll's untouched stew.

"You're welcome to it if you like, I've lost my appetite," he said, handing her the bowl.

"Once his legs are gone, we'll burn his arms off in the sun, one by one," Tav continued her laps around the fire.

"You are vengeance incarnate, darling," Astarion spurred her on.

"We could chop off the limbs once they got too burnt and crusty and lost feeling," Karlach offered, talking with her mouth full. "He can regenerate but not regrow, right?"

"A good technique when combined with flaying extremities, as well," Lae'zel nodded approvingly.

"Yes!" Tav exclaimed, shaking a small but mighty fist at the sky. "We'll carve him up! Like a turkey."

"Now, call me an old fashioned romantic," Wyll interrupted. "But can't we just kill him in a civilized manner and then piss on his grave like normal people..?"

"All in due course, my friend," said Tav, before turning to Astarion. "Do you think Cazador would find this experience more horrifying with or without his eyes?"

A warm, fuzzy feeling was threatening to overtake Astarion.

So this is what friendship is, he thought.

[criticalrolo]

casting vow of enmity on your child is WILD

[funkyydinoart]

DUNGEON DRAGON!!!!

[catabibaz0n]

Had an intense NEED to draw a robot while I was visiting my parents for Christmas, and this is the result of that momentary insanity. Introducing music box, my oath of vengeance paladin~

[finch-artt]

*rubs hands together evil-y*

I was expecting a lot of things this last D&D session my party played-- but finding out that my CLERIC OF ELDATH was ACTUALLY A MASS-MURDERING PALADIN OF IYACHTU XVIM WASN’T ONE OF THEM.

Holy shit it was so cool. Have to say, playing a D&D game where not even the players know what their real backstories are is a bunch of fun.

And! In honor of my character’s complete and sudden class and background, I drew up a new, spooOoOpy Icon for him in Roll20. (Partially traced off of Gilbert’s face from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, because my old icon was him photoshopped with a fishing mug.)

[beebotworks]

Some character sketches of my new Orc Paladin. It's a crime there arn't more curly haired orcs out there.

[solmesia]

sex is nice and all but have you considered just laying there... holding your vampire lover... and talking about the first time you broke your oath...........

[shadowheartgf]

save me divine smite save me

[mesherew]

how ironic to be a paladin when you can't even remember the god you're serving

[moss--knight]

custom disco elysium skills for my vengeance paladin iolunn :D maybe i'll do this for my other dnd characters too

explanations are under the cut!

DARK SUN - the desc. is a lyrics from Me and Mine by The Brothers Bright

Dark Sun is an epithet for the god of war and revenge, who Iohlunn serves. This skill embodies some of her beliefs on more complicated subjects (fate, order, justice, etc.) and her dark side - mindless rage, violence, paranoia. It also relays messages from the god himself.

DE counterparts - Authority, Half Light, a bit of Shivers.

WARHORSE - by strength i mean both physical and mental. This is a skill that keeps Ioh going, even if she doesnt want to. It has a bit of that glorified self-destruction mindset going on.

Alt. desc. - "Dont matter if the cold wind blows, Im gonna wind up working in the thick of it." (Bilgewater - Brown Bird)

DE counterparts - Endurance, Physical Instrument, Pain Threshold

STRATÈGOS - the name is a military rank in Ancient Greece.

An analytical part of Ioh, the problem-solving skill. Also helps w/ social interactions, albeit in its own way - does this person "outrank" me? Do i have to answer to them? How should i hold myself in their presence?

The depicted face is Ioh herself! :D

DE counterparts - Composure, Reaction Speed, Esprit de Corps, Visial Calculus

SPLINTER - the Achilles heel. A loud, emotional, yearning part of Iohlunn. Its still there, despite all of hardships, pain and suffering. This skill is costantly being suppressed by others, and yet its very vocal.

Flowers: arnica - "Let me heal thy grief" (message from her lover, my other dnd oc)

astragalus - "Your presence softens my pain" (to that same lover)

Alt. desc. - "I'm standing guard, I'm falling apart / And all I want is to trust you / Show me how to lay my sword down / For long enough to let you through" (Eight - Sleeping At Last. honestly, just put the whole song there, its perfect)

DE counterparts - Inland Empire, Empathy

[drathe]

"Look not upon our sins, Master of Scales, but measure the worth of your most grateful dead."

Iah, Paladin of Kelemvor, Oath of Vengeance

[faun-draws]

“I took up my oath a long time ago.”

It was brought to my attention that an Oath of vengeance Paladin gets big wings at Level 20. So I did a thing

[catbatart]

Design-a-Character commission of an Elven Paladin of Vengeance!

[wyrmwyrm]

Thanks @drawsmaddy for this beautiful piece of my punk knight, Tulip!

[voltaical-art]

urghh im just gonna post this… some Bishop lore…

[finch-artt]

I literally can’t get enough of drawing Oath of Vengeance!Paladin OC, his recent backstory shift was just so cool.