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#1 Elton74 Sep 30, 2008 11:32:44	I'm wondering if there are Death Knights involved in the Order of the Emerald Claw. And if so, could one sever his ties with the Order of the Emerald Claw and work for King Kaius directly? If he wanted to, of course. ;)
#2 grug_the_just Sep 30, 2008 14:48:04	And if so, could one sever his ties with the Order of the Emerald Claw and work for King Kaius directly? If he wanted to, of course. Are you asking our permission or are you asking if there is precedent for this? Honestly, this is a "why not" question. If you aren't the DM here, chances are you should be asking him/her. As far as I recall though I do not remember any death knights too closely related to the Emerald Claw. However, the emerald claw, blood of vol and karrnath are very closely related in a lot of ways. So it is feasible.
#3 azazyll Oct 10, 2008 12:44:16	The feel of a death knight doesn't strike me as quite right for the emerald claw, at least in the traditional sense. They usually have a divine curse (krynn) or demonic pact (particularly to demogorgon), and they are almost always fallen champions of good. Not to say you couldn't change this, they just strike me more as minions of the Rajas. Which could be interesting in it's own right, if a powerful death knight minion of a raja of undeath infiltrated the order of the emerald claw and tried to subvert it to his own purposes. But, to me, a death knight has a level of drama beyond "which template should I add to this corpse to get a cool minion." Death knights are never just minions, they have tragic pasts, a sort of uber black guard. And most of the emerald claw knights were never really champions of good.