Companions of the Noble Heart

The Companions of the Noble Heart were a knightly order of paladins devoted to the faith of Ilmater, the One Who Endures.

Relations
The Companions of the Noble Heart were friendly with their counterpart order, the Order of the Golden Cup. They took somewhat opposing views, with the Companions as the more aggressive order, the Golden Cup as the more peaceful.

The Companions often joined other followers of the Triad of gods in crusades against the minions of Loviatar, the Maiden of Pain.

Activities
The Companions of the Noble Heart had the duty of seeking out destroying the cruel, those people who tortured and enjoyed the suffering of others. The Companions were very aggressive in seeking out their chosen adversaries. They especially disliked the church of Loviatar, their greatest foes, and once they had slain all evil-doers within a temple of Loviatar, the Companions would happily destroy the building, right down to the ground.

Abilities
Some Noble Heart paladins pursued the path of a holy warrior and a hunter in service to their faith. As hunters, they learned the skills of wilderness survival and tracking. They were dogged in the pursuit of tormentors, and could develop supernatural skill in following the tracks of Loviatans. Such hunters had only to touch the body of one recently harmed by a Loviatan to see the true face of their attacker.

Some were especially capable of destroying any object dedicated to Loviatar with a blow of their weapon. They used this to destroy Loviatan weapons, holy objects, temples, and even regular possessions owned by a lay follower of Loviatar. They could even smite such objects as if they were evil creatures themselves. Some even learned to smite evil more often, purely for the purposes of combating Loviatans and their works, and could resist Loviatan assaults upon the body.

Whereas paladins typically learned to cast remove disease, Noble Heart paladins could learn the spell delay poison instead, which they used to resist and protect against the poisoned weapons of their enemies.

Noble Heart paladins could practice freely as fighters and divine champions.