It's my first time running a game. What is going on in my game right now is my husband's Magus is on a ship bound for Oppara to essentially overthrow the monarchy, the bureaucracy, the petty nobility and establish his own rulership... and eventually conquer the world. Yeah, I know, good starting out campaign, right?
In "party" he currently has a barbarian and a 3.5 priest variant (I dislike the cloistered cleric for this particular game, it is too limited for what he needs to do) of Shelyn. Also attending him are a higher level bard meant to do all the social stuff he might want to do but I don't want to have to RP such as "hey, my dude needs a noble lady on his arm to solidify his position, but will take DAYS of gathering info and exhaustive interviews besides" to just give him the options. Yes, railroading, booo. There is also a Flame oracle, and because he as a PC apparently is known to do, focused on this one NPC I did not intend to become important, a 16 year old former slave girl.
She's a good girl, though. And she is... Love, really, in all its forms. I currently have her "studying" under the priest of Shelyn to kinda diffuse the situation because with kinda low mental stats other than CHA she isn't much use at this point in the story when he's supposed to be gathering strong allies to himself.
But, she could be. So I am asking, what exactly constitutes "training" a paladin? She's got a priest that can teach her how to channel divine energy, and the barbarian can sorta teach her how to fight. I am just wondering if it is too much a leap of logic to let this girl learn some basic healing and empathy and moves and call her a paladin so that she might be retained when they land, or just ship her off to the temple to be picked up at a later date as a cohort.
maybe have her train in some form of law enforcement? most of the paladins in my games tend to work or have worked for some sort of local authority at some point.