The Order of the Paladin

The Paladins are a group that have always existed on the server, from FallenMercenary to the modern players such as Neua, Sadao, Reaprr, Kirigumo, Redrubix_, Kevnnnn, LM_BROS, Memelord_God, and Yudolph. Paladin is a term used by a multitude of factions and towns, including Legion, Gestapo, NoRegrets, and Heaven. It is a status that refers to only the most powerful people on the server. Outside the context of the server, the term means "holy warrior", but is used occasionally to just describe a powerful warrior. It was changed to "Val-Tivar" under Legion, the reformed Gestapo that changed many of the aspects of the original faction. Val-Tivar is a word in the language of Old Norse, and it translates to "gods of battle", or "warrior gods"

Whether or not a player can be defined as a Paladin depends heavily on many aspects, such as power, influence, position, and sheer weaponry. Items like relics, magic items, and special Kenns can streamline a player to being held under that status, however, players such as MrAwesome_, better known as Wout, have been classified under that status sheerly from the power they hold. Wout for example was the long time owner of the NoRegrets regiment, and he oversaw the group through much of the better times the regiment had. At the height of the regiment, it had over a hundred and fifty members. Another player, Neua, better known as Zatt, was held under the classification of Paladin both for his vast amount of weaponry that spanned historically in almost every time period the server had, and also for his role as the leader of the infamous Enemies of Humanity regiment, or EoH. One player, klaur, a member of Legion brought on by the player surge from the server's TikTok page, was placed under the classification sheerly for her extraordinary skills with normal ODM gear.

A somewhat more widely accepted variation of the term would be an endgame player, someone who has done everything you can do on a server and who does it one of the best ways anyone can. The term Paladin was created by the USF, a faction who merged with NoRegrets sometime before a year of its decline and adapted the term to 8th Axis. USF is an abbreviation, but for what, no one seems to know. Besides being the father to the term, the faction is mostly unimportant, though it did hold a certain number of Paladin at one point. Plurals of the word Paladin include Paladi and Paladins, but mostly are simply referred to as, once again, Paladin.

The Paladin as one term are not a single group, however there have been many groups entirely comprised of Paladin, such as the Table Gang and Liberio's Coalition. Other groups have Paladin in them, such as the Cult of the Bidoof. The Paladin exist on other servers too, and operate under many factions, regiments, towns, and groups of players in general. The Paladin Orrostumaðr of Rathnir, The Paladin Hunters of CakeCraft, The Eternal Legion of WynnCraft, and the USF's Paladin Deployment Unit, to name a few. With the many updates and content soon to be released, including customizable Titans and new weapons, there will be no telling how many new Paladin will soon emerge.