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They may say he's a Paladin, but all we have are statements. He never used any Paladin Powers -- notPowers—not Detect Evil, nor Smite, nor Lay On Hands, nor Summon Mount. He is said to be fearless, but that is not a demonstration of a class ability if he's hugely overleveled. He did use a supernatural ability, but Speak With Dead is a Cleric spell, not a Paladin spell.

*** Well, he does display what appears to be deep and genuine grief when {{spoiler|Saral Caine is found dead}}, but it may have been because {{spoiler|Saral Caine}} was his only friend. It's also been said right out that he's part Treant through [[A Wizard Did It|magical means]]. So it could be that the Treant-- orTreant—or whatever it is-- sideis—side is the one that makes him a [[Complete Monster]]. His human side tried to fight it at first; but eventually it was just too hard, and he gave in.

* 2009 June 20th20's comic implies that he might be a Half-Golem (Wood).

Plus, they're both [[Dark Messiah|Dark Messiahs]]s with [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|tragic]] [[Doomed Hometown|pasts]].

One of the psionic classes in 3.5 was called the Soulknife; its forte was manifesting psychic energy in the form of a weapon composed of faintly translucent, colored, solid energy -- justenergy—just like Dies' arm. Soulknifes could reshape their Mindblades into almost any form, from dagger to axe to greatsword. If this theory is true -- andtrue—and Dies did manage to make a flower grow out of his palm before panicking and turning it into a blade-growth -- thengrowth—then Dies will be able to shapeshift his arm at will if he gets some more willpower and, more importantly, stops jumping at every shadow.

The goblins seem to be magnets for rare and valuable things at the moment. Chief has an amazing spear; Big-Ears has the Axe; Dies-Horribly has a shapeshifting hand; and Complains has become part-Demon, presumably granting some useful bonuses. Chief also remarked after the battle in the guard barracks that they seem to be gaining bonus experience. This could be because there ''are'' no other parties of goblin PCs so far as we know - even the dungeon delve at the Viper clan seems to be comprised of (admittedly dangerous or talented) [[NPC|NPCs]]s. Coupled with their lifespans, which are generally guessed to be about 30 years, the non-stop windfalls make a certain sort of sense. You can add Maglubiyet's influence to top it all off - he wouldn't want his future champions to die poor and weak, would he?

* Kore's excessively long speeches explaining the justifications of his actions are also the only thing keeping him aligned as a paladin -- bypaladin—by explaining how he (as a character) percieves his actions to be good, no matter how evil the action itself would otherwise be, he gets a pass. Either it works because the DM/Herbert agrees with the idea that if you say it's for the common good, it is, or either as a [[Strawman Political]] that he can't otherwise argue with because it would make him look like a hypocrite.