So I saw the super awesome Champion of Irori prestige class (I mean really? Whirlwind smite = awesome), but there was an Issue with it for Pathfinder, that one being that the Faiths of Balance book clearly states that Irori doesn't support paladins, the only Neutral god that supports Paladins is Abadar.
so my Question is: How can the Champions of Irori exist, if Irori doesn't actually have paladins?
are they paladins of other faiths that changed Faith to Irori and somehow Irori decided to foot the bill for the class features, when he doesn't usually, or is the Faiths of Balance book wrong?
there's mention of Barbarians, Bards, Rogues, sorcerers and wizards, but no Paladins.
I like the class, but FOB does say that only Abadar has Paladins :S
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Paladins of Irori do exist, but not as part of any religious order. They're highly individualized, and their paladin codes may have little in common (other then the usual good and law clauses). This is what I recall from a thread on the matter by James Jacobs.
Mostly unrelated: I've always wanted to play a monk paladin.
The thing is, there are Paladins of Irori in existence. But the difference between them and Paladins of other faiths (such as those of Abadar) is the lack of knighthoods and such. Irori's faith is very individualistic at least in how a given person views his/her road to perfection, and the code kinda reflects that. The Champion of Irori refuses to take followers, as every given person needs to seek their own path to perfection, rather than try and emulate his/her path. I might be wrong about that, but it's the conclusion I came to about all of it.
Basically, the code got cut for space, someone thought it was supposed to go in Dragon Empires but another person didn't get that message, and so official word has become that paladins of Irori don't have a unifying code. There's a lot of discussion in it in the Paths of Prestige product thread.