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So, I need some advise. I am DMing a long running Pathfinder campaign set in my own world. Recently, I used the actions of the paladin in my group to strip away her paladin powers because she upset her patron god - in a fit of rage, she killed a enemy that had surrendered. Her actions were completely in character and made sense in the moment - the enemy had been taunting her with what he would do to her son.
When she killed him, I jumped on the opportunity and relieved her of paladin abilities, without reading the rules for how to atone. After the game (which is now on break for the holidays), I got together with the paladin and we looked up what would come next. I was very surprised that Pathfinder had made the process as easy as having a cleric cast an atonement spell.
After talking it out, we decided that this wouldn't do. The paladin wanted to make it an epic arc for her character as she came to terms with what she thought was right verses what her patron God thought was right. We even discussed several options for her character.
So here's the part that I need advise on - what "Class" does she become while she's atoning? I don't want to leave here without any abilities because I'm not sure if that's fair. When I played D&D, a paladin would become a fighter of equal level while she was atoning for her actions. Pathfinder doesn't do that. The paladin is still Lawful Good - she simply broke one tenet of her god's code - so she's not an anti-paladin. And I can't find a class that would be suitable for her to play while not a Paladin. Does anyone out there know of a class, official or not, that I could use until she became a paladin again?