What God will work best for this Paladin NPC?

[Darth Grall]

Hey there guys,
My main game's STILL on hiatus, so I'm running a prequel game with my more availible members so I'm thinking of running a campaign to flesh out why one of my the bad guys's is a Paladin.

Relatively Minor spoilers for my players:

Spoiler:

In my homebrew there is a organization, called The Nine, comprised of 9 members, each member representing different one of the different alignments. The ultimate goal of the organization is to bring back an Undead God to life. Including a LG Paladin.

Now, clearly a Paladin would be against resurrecting an evil god under normal circumstances. Except... I was thinking that this Paladin would align herself with the organization to help them ressurrect the God so that she may permanently destory it as well as minimize the evil enacted by the organization while part of it.

To that end, what Golarion God would be most inline with this line of thought? I must admit, I'm not super familiar with all the Golarion Gods... After some cursory reading I'm not seeing one that fits. Of the LG gods, Iomedae doesn't look like the type to tolerate evil, Erastil seems rather indifferent(which could work I guess), while Torag seems to be opposed to this kind of thing, being a god of creation and stuff.

Am I mistaken? Or should I start looking at the NG gods?

[Jubal Breakbottle]

Lawful Good gods
Neutral Good gods
Lawful Neutral gods

I don't think a Lawful Good god would tolerate his actions, but you're the GM. Why not explore Neutral Good or Lawful Neutral gods? The paladin just needs to be one step from your god.

cheers

[Urist The Unstoppable]

Sarenrae will tolerate evil if it's for a good purpose.

Now is this Undead God evil or just going to be undead? The Paladin could be a follower of Aroden's old teachings and hope to resurrect him.

[Nicos]

IMHO, no paladin will ever do that. He will endanger inocent people just by arrogance. Why he think he can kill that undead god?

[Starglim]

Iomedae seems most likely to favour confronting and destroying an evil being in battle. If the paladin is a dwarf, this might fall within Magrim's remit.

edit: Erastil would strongly oppose a radical change that puts the common people at such a risk, as others have mentioned.

[Bearlock]

Nicos wrote:

IMHO, no paladin will ever do that. He will endanger innocent people just by arrogance. Why he think he can kill that undead god?

I agree with this. It would be hubris to bet everything on the fact that he can succeed without thinking of what could happen if he was to fail. And why would he be there in the first place, one he's working with evil and chaotic people who are trying to bring back an undead god. For those reasons alone, no matter what their purpose is for it, should be enough to set himself against their plans, not just try to minimize the damage. If he was forced to be there from higher up his chain of command, it could be interesting, but he should be trying to sabotage everything.

Unless... he is trying to become a blackguard/anti-paladin, and raising this god is the way to do it. He could technically be LG until that point I guess.

EDIT: As this is an NPC, you could cut him some slack for story purposes. I get that things could be difficult in that situation. Why not just smite everybody? Who knows what they will do without him being there. Why wait till so close to the ritual? Best chance to destroy everything so nobody can repeat it. All that aside though, I think that his goal should be to stop the resurrection from even taking place. That's the best way to ensure the safety of others. And he should still have to pay for whatever he was a part of while in the group.

EDIT 2: If he was LG cleric it would all be easier to swallow, rather than him being a paladin.

[Darth Grall]

To addresss Bearlock:

Spoiler:

This is for a mythic playtest game, and the NPC does infact ironically have Hubris as a flaw. So a mythic paladin thinking they can kill a god's pretty much within the realm of the possible. However that it's a mythic game is a rather secondary issue to an otherwise non-mythic issue(hence why it's not in those boards).

As for the Paladin actually working with them, it's simply an issue of the Paladin's Mortality. He knows that the baddies will resurrect it sooner or later and that those before him have only slowed them down in their efforts to stop the ritual. He knows he can't live forever to thwart them. So I, as a story teller, like the idea of him deciding to work with them to summon the damn thing so that he can finally end things once and for all.

Sure it's argueably dumb, but there's something noble about a Paladin trying to take on the weight of the world on his shoulders and end a battle that's waged for ages. From the Paladin's point of view, their putting their faith in their own abilities... but also in the god who's chosen them to give their powers to.

Now as for an LG Cleric... I could, but for the meta plot I want something powerful and quite iconic since I'm planning to fold details back into my main game's story whenever we pick things back up. And I mean, is there anything more iconically LG than a Paladin?

And to address Urist:

Evil as of the moment. And thanks, I'm reading over Sarenrae now.

[Bearlock]

I get it, like I said, he's an NPC, and the whole thing makes for a good story.

And I totally passed the whole point of the OP as well, not too familiar with the PF gods, but from what I've browsed I would go with Iomedae or Sarenrae.