<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=276116.msg13653273#msg13653273">Quote from: Dashenka on 06-11-2017, 11:09:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">But... a Priest wearing plate armour, in my books, is a Paladin. Except the Priests have a very interesting shadowy side and Paladins have not.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The lore is different. Paladins are a combination of priest and warrior, not solely priests in armor. They do have some of the same abilities as priests, but they are different. Edit: not abilities... I mean the light empowerment, their source of power.<br/><br/>During the first war, paladins didn't exist at all. Warrior existed, of course, and 'priests' existed but they were called clerics. But when fighting the orcs, those clerics got pretty much rekt. They had light magic but they couldn't fight and so the orcs just decimated them. After that, the clerics decided that they have to prevent that from happening again and so the clerics, lead by Alonsus Faol, began teaching regular warriors their magic, creating paladins and the Siver Hand with Uther leading them.<br/><br/>So paladins are basically warriors who are taught to use the light by priests. Though, I'm not sure if it would work the other way around. You know, if a priest learned to fight, could he be considered a paladin? That would be the case with Anduin, then.<br/><br/>There are also different kinds of priests. Humans get their power from the light as the Church of Light sees it. Blood elves take their power either from the Sunwell or they just bend the light to their will by force, I'm not sure here actually, never read up on that lore. Tauren worship the sun which is also light in a way. Draenei take their power from the Naaru which may or may not be the same light that the humans' Church of Light worships. I mean, Anduin is a human, so the first case would apply to him, but since Velen was his mentor, I don't know if that changes something.<br/><br/>What do you think? Also sorry, I don't want to come across like I'm lecturing people on lore, haha. I'm just a massive WoW nerd x_x