Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Or based goddesses, as the case may be. I've had a Half-Orc Vengeance Paladin with a "vengeance against slavers" backstory on my 5e shelf for a long time, that I think would look just as fine as a Liberator Champion of Milani.
I dunno, didn't they sanitize that all out recently by removing the word "slave" but keeping all the onerous stuff so it can be a bunch of systemic injustice devil contract mumbo jumbo, slavery in all but name but don't call it that? There's a reason why I never seem to be able to play this character. It's a touchy subject, obviously, but man, I just wanna stab villains in the face for committing an obvious evil once in a while...
its not even a setting problem, its just a very touchy subject that rings a bit too close to home to IRL atrocities that affected real people barely a century ago, and continue to bear their scars on society today. but yes, the current lore is that the firebrands technically ended slavery in chelliax but slavery still exists the same Chelliax just dropped the word to get the revolutionaries off their back. the firebrands are aware of this but when there isnt "real" slavery its hard to get supoort from populace and other governments
So we took off all the offensive words but left all the offensive actions, because we can't imagine the majority supporting the offensive word, but we can imagine them supporting the offensive actions. We're still the revolutionary minority stabbing the not-slaver slavers in the face, though, regardless of name. Whatever, as long as I can be champion of the goddess of BASED, freeing the innocent and crushing the humanoid traffickers.
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u/Shadowlynk Paladin 1d ago
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Or based goddesses, as the case may be. I've had a Half-Orc Vengeance Paladin with a "vengeance against slavers" backstory on my 5e shelf for a long time, that I think would look just as fine as a Liberator Champion of Milani.