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Alas, the dark thoughts overcame Zac, and he took his own life in his hopelessness. HF all.

any thoughts on the background? Do you want me to make a "code" of sorts for the paladin?

Unsure, but likely the Godclaw.

Alrighty, I'm still spellchecking for typo's etc. Adding a bit here and there but I think the gist is finished for his background.

If you wanna short TLDR version-
grew up in a fairly normal happy family, but had depression of sorts, demon comes to small village, slaughters most people, almost kills him. following limbo reinforces his rather dark outlook on life and the end but chooses to fight against that. Travels and trains with his steed (at which is a fairly grown horse by the time he joins the Hellknights). He is 22 now, so its been 7 years since his incident, he sends some of his earnings back home to mom and sis.

yeah I'm working on it

I hadn't even realized I had made a potential "train" paladin build O.o lol. I just didn't see him signing on to a god to get cleric/war-priest levels, arcane wouldn't really work with him either. I had considered bard, but the flavor I wanted from that is as simple as perform(music). so, I just went with a non-spellcaster build haha. sub-optimal for gestalt I suppose, but it fits, and I think it will be sufficient.

Here is the crunch for him. Mostly, I think I like it overall. Considering taking shining Knight and warrior of holy light archetypes for paladin.

I picked the exposed to awfulness trait to go along with his view. When he was about 14 his near death experience left him with both mental and physical scars. The physical scar is a brand on the back of his hand in the holy symbol of Rovagoug, the "patron" of the demon that almost claimed his life and soul. The mental scar is the every encroaching feeling of meaningless/hopelessness As he had in fact all but died in the event. During his limbo he experienced void, a nothingness, a feeling of existence without existence. This would lead him to his thoughts on existence/life and to his eventually rebellion to that end. He uses music and craft as ways to take his mind off things and albeit with limited success, do something meaningful. Also, his companion Alduin(his mount) provides a surprisingly intelligent friend.

more detailed story should be finished in a day or two depending on free time.

EDIT: Do you want me to keep the LG alignment of a paladin?