Countries and rulers sometimes invite Hellknights into their lands, leaving the dirty business of harsh law enforcement to an already loathed third party, although, convincing Hellknights to leave once they've been welcomed sometimes proves problematic for more freedom-loving societies. even at the sacrifice of a little freedom.
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While Hellknights are widely feared and respected, the common Hellknight joins out of a sense of duty and wish to be a part of something greater, seeing a world ruled by just laws and free of rampaging beasts and cheating thieves as a future well worth striving toward. They learn that sacrifices must often be made for the greater good, obey draconian regimens of military conduct, commit to encyclopedic memorization of the laws of their orders and local governing bodies, and undergo constant drills to train their bodies and minds. They train with summoned devils, the signifiers of their orders coaxing the ingenuity of diabolical tactics from infernal tongues, while the rank and file members spar against the very denizens of Hell-making nearly any future conflict a far less daunting prospect. Hellknights are taught to replace emotion with steely discipline. The study of Hell’s tenets and even the summoning of devils are tools meant to intimidate and strengthen the individual resolve of the orders’ members. Although there are doubtlessly numerous evil members-particularly among the upper echelons of power-the majority of the orders are lawful neutral, with lawful neutral, lawful evil, and lawful good members filling the ranks of each. Regardless of their severity, Hellknights are not an evil group. If people cannot be trusted to obey the law out of their own senses of civility and social righteousness, then they will be treated like beasts, learning to obey out of fear of a master's stern hand. They are not concerned with morality, they are not concerned with methods, they are concerned with results. In their iron-handed exaction of law-specifically, the laws of their various orders and their home country of Cheliax-Hellknights emulate the most organized and effective armies in all the planes: the legions of Hell. The Hellknights are an order of law enforcers interested not so much in the social goodliness and charity typical of paladins but in the foundation and stringent maintenance of order.
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