This may be answered by the hellknight article in the adventure path but I was hoping for an early heads up. Are there any limits on what races can and cant be hellknights? Which ones are more likely (I mean besides humans) and any that wouldn't really be Hellknights.
I don't think there are any limits in the canon. But in my world it will be very rare for any non-humans to be Hellknights. They just don't seem like the open-minded sorts and, with the clear humanity bias of Cheliax, I am going to have them adopt that perspective.
They won't abuse non-humans, but they are certainly more suspicious of non-humans and any creature that might possibly be tainted, doubly so.
I guess to me the Hellknights tend a little towards being "SS" of Cheliax. Except that they aren't officially part of the government, but they clearly operate with government sanction to ensure their vision of proper behavior.
Note that there's a Hellknight centaur on the cover of the Cheliax book, and one is mentioned in another Pathfinder product (I can't recall which at the moment). So the group isn't 100% human.
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Yeah; race isn't all that important to the Hellknights. Attitude is. There are certainly Hellknights of all the base races, but also certainly centaur Hellknights and other races as well.
The fact that the majority of the Hellknights we'll be presenting are human has less to do with that organization's preferences and more to do with the fact that for Golarion products, we at Paizo skew things very heavily toward humans on purpose, across most organizations.
I have always felt that dwarves could fit VERY well into this organization.
Considering that the name of that piece in the art order (which I wrote) is "Centaur Hellknight vs. Iconics," yes, I'm sure. :)
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Note that there's a Hellknight centaur on the cover of the Cheliax book, and one is mentioned in another Pathfinder product (I can't recall which at the moment). So the group isn't 100% human.
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I believe this reference being to the Order of The Nail in Korvosa (or in its forterss cloe enough)But I don't Remmber if this mention is in Guide to Korvosa or in the article about Order of The Nail Hellknights in RotRL#2 Skinasw Murders
I think that those races leaning towards non-lawful alignments, e.g., elves, will obviously rarely be hellknights.
And I would have a hard time imagining gnomes and halflings as hellknights as well...
On the other hand, I could very well imagine a hobgoblin among the ranks of the hellknights - they are lawful, militaristic creatures anyway.
(Did I mention that I love hobgoblins as antagonists?)
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