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What’s up let’s talk about Reiner, my character from the same universe as Ekkehardt
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Reiner is a paladin
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His order is dedicated to hunting down undead that have lost their grip on sanity
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And obliterating them
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Because after the big house war that Gehring came out on top of there were a LOT of out of control undead around
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He has absolutely no healing powers but his smiting power is second to none and honestly kind of terrifying
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Think the arc of the covenant in raiders of the lost arc
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Horrible unrestrained wrath of god
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He’s Ekkehardt’s coworker
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They’re not really friends but they have a mutual respect for each other as fellow professionals who are good at their jobs
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When Reiner is off duty he’s actually very friendly and likes baking, of all things
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I never went into a huge amount of detail with him beyond that
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I think Ruka drew him once or twice?
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Mainly I liked the dichotomy of having a lich that specializes in healing and a paladin that specializes in blowing shit up
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The next step towards fleshing out Reiner would be coming up with a suitably Gothic Horror backstory
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Where do paladins COME from in this universe
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Is it a skill you learn like magic or are you just chosen to become a vessel for god's might?
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What are the gods like here?
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I feel like Reiner was a nobody
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who got thrust into all this when something happened to his family
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It's possible that his first use of his powers was putting down his own family because they'd been turned into mindless zombie thralls of some wizard during the house war
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paladins are the "you can be chosen or attune yourself to accept a god's will/mission/fragment of power" sort of type
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attune too hard and Watch Out