Steel Roar

Faerûn had never been a fair world. Here, differences between races were universally acknowledged. In Faerûn, even the most radical paladins had no concept that all people were born equal. "Freedom" and "equality" had never appeared in Faerûn's history.

In a world like Faerûn, with productivity akin to the Middle Ages, talking about freedom and equality was simply laughable. What right did an ordinary farmer have to be mentioned in the same breath as a professional?

A professional could protect the safety of a group of ordinary people in this world. What could a farmer do? Any random monster in the wilderness could kill a farmer. Without the protection of nobles and professionals, commoners had no ability to survive in this dangerous world.

Under such circumstances, making a farmer equal to a noble or even a professional—had anyone considered how the professionals would feel?

It was the same among humans, and it was the same among other races. Some creatures were simply born stronger than humans. That was a fact no one could deny. Thus, even a novice paladin like Saililefu felt that Groot had entirely brought this upon himself with his reckless behavior.

(It had to be stressed again here that paladins were fundamentally different from the human-rights champions many people imagined them to be. Their foremost faith was always order, not equality! The fairness they pursued also existed within the established order. No paladin would demand that a noble pay for a commoner's life with his own simply because the noble had killed that commoner. That was unrealistic and did not conform to the laws of most nations on the continent. They would only ensure that the noble received punishment within the bounds of the law. Of course, if the noble was utterly deranged, that would be another