You’ve probably answered this question before, and if you have I’d love to be pointed to your answer, but if not i was curious – What is your personal, exact definition of a paladin is?

wearepaladin:

I think I’ve answered it like three times, but it’s a favored question. To me, it’s believing in the impossible dream, having faith in it and working to make it true by word and deed. What is the impossible dream? Quixote’s dream.

To dream … the impossible dream …
To fight … the unbeatable foe …
To bear … with unbearable sorrow …
To run … where the brave dare not go …

To right … the unrightable wrong …
To love … pure and chaste from afar …
To try … when your arms are too weary …
To reach … the unreachable star …

This is my quest, to follow that star …
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far …

To fight for the right, without question or pause …
To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause …

And I know if I’ll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie will lie peaceful and calm,
when I’m laid to my rest …

And the world will be better for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach … the unreachable star …

There’s more of course, for me personally. The key is being fueled by the love of being virtuous, faith in the promise of the triumph of good, and that one day evil will be cast down forever. It’s impossible, more than any one person can do. But it’s what I want to believe, and what I want to live and die to make possible. That’s what being a paladin means to me.