So me and a friend were ironing out his Oath of Vengeance paladin into Hellknight Commander build for an upcoming game when one of us mentioned (I think it was me but I can't really remember, it was pretty late at night) that there really was nothing stopping a druid going into the Hellknight Signifer/ we thought about it a bit and came up with an Order of the Pike armiger really bent on destroying anything unnatural or corrupted by unnatural forces. I'm really curious to see how others might justify this combination (and maybe have others poke holes in our reasoning so that I might better make and roleplay this strange character, if possible).
Seems appropriate. LN works, Warrior Priest works fine for druids. Nothing wrong with Dragonhide Hellknight Plate. Order of the Pike seems to fit well.
I'd roleplay him less as the typical druid and more - just as you said - focused on the destruction of corruption and unnatural forces and the preservation of the natural Order, with a capital "O" in Order.
Militant attitude against unnatural forces.
Nature Fang stands out as an archetype, as does Menhir Savant and Urban Druid.
Seems appropriate. LN works, Warrior Priest works fine for druids. Nothing wrong with Dragonhide Hellknight Plate. Order of the Pike seems to fit well.
I'd roleplay him less as the typical druid and more - just as you said - focused on the destruction of corruption and unnatural forces and the preservation of the natural Order, with a capital "O" in Order.
Militant attitude against unnatural forces.
Nature Fang stands out as an archetype, as does Menhir Savant and Urban Druid.
I'm already playing an Urban Druid in a WotW AP and while the Nature Fang does appeal to me quite a bit for a normal druid, I think the Menhir Savant is the best pick of the liter. The abilities you get are good and they are not as level dependent, I still get Wild Shape so I can use the Shaping Focus feat in order to count as a level 9 or 10 druid for the purposes of wild shape as I level in Signifer. I suppose another advantage is that I get the Longspear eventually, so I could do something with that.
Stoneplate is also an option if Dragonhide is an issue for any reason.
I keep forgetting about stoneplate. I will remember if that ever becomes an issue.
What kind of god would this guy worship, if any? While I like the Green Faith I do enjoy giving my characters strange gods to worship and flesh out their personality. I highly doubt this guy would be a huge worshiper of Abadar, all things considered.
Maybe a particularly militant sect of Gozreh?
A screwball option would be the Knight of Laurels, Furcas - Infernal Duke of duty, flames, and herbalism.
His druid followers are normally NE and quite murderous, though. More likely to make monsters than to put them down.
Though I just noticed your friend's playing a paladin. I'd suggest Gozreh, then.
Or if you're looking a dwarf (with the stone plate and all), perhaps Magrim, the LN dwarven god of death, could work.
A druid signifier is screwball to begin with, so don't hesitate to go for odd options (and odd interpretations of odd options - the gods are quite forgiving of heresy).
This would not be for the same campaign, I think. Our Gm is doing this whole thing where we each get an Aligned PrC as it were and while we level as normal in our classes we also get the special abilities of that PrC (so the reverse of an Evangelist) and one of the advantages of going this road would be my ability to keep a lot of my druid's abilities while also being a Hellknight. Furcas sounds interesting, yes.
I haven't played as a druid much so I wouldn't know, but are there a lot of divination spells on the druid spell list? I'm asking because I noticed that Erecura is a LN goddess married to Dispater whose pervue is Soothsayers and all that entails.