You will get your first spell upon circling five times, but you need magic to advance. You will have to be taught; there is no other way around that until the fifth circle.

There is something called a soul that is unique to paladins. Everyone has a soul, but the status of it effects us. It could be considered good, or bad. If you do something wrong, like attacking first, stealing, etc, it will be hurt. If it gets hurt enough, you will lose your abilities. The soul may be considered generally as Dark and Light. Light is "chalky white" or above; Dark is anything that has black in the description. Soul actually has some effects on almost everything you do. You abilities and spells are extremely effected one way or the other by your soul status.

At the moment, the "light" states of the soul are as follows, in order from least to greatest: Chalky White, Pure White, Pristine. Pristine is not known to have an upper limit. As long as your soul is Chalky White, it will slowly move up to Pure White. After that, you must do special things to boost it. The only things we can do now to boost our soul status (this will ALWAYS help your soul status, no matter what you've done wrong, with the exception of stealing) is tend a bleeding wound of a non-paladin, tithe two silvers or more (this gets expensive), or catch a pickpocket stealing from you and accusing them. (This is near impossible, unless you're old).

Our guild is highly combat oriented. Therefore, you will have to fight a lot. To start off, go to goblins. They will teach you for a while, until about 15 ranks in experience. Then you should go to wood trolls. If they become too easy, go to reavers. They are the next step up, and should get you easily to the fifth circle. By that time, you should be old enough to know your way around, and know what you should choose next, because there are many options.

On a final note, many of the older paladins are trying to set up a system of getting youngsters equipped with at least the basics. Ask around in the guild. You'll find a few of us usually.

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