You are never asked to select a deity during Paladin character creation and leveling. There are no rules or mechanics for it. Outside of a player’s personal role-playing preferences, it isn’t part of their class.
Ill repeat for you.
Read SCAG. "Most paladins are dedicated to A deity.
Most of the names of their spells, abilities etc have divine names/language to them.
You are not required anymore mechanically to choose a deity. But in tabletop, you better have a pretty damn good reason for not choosing one in you backstory. Cos all paladins wether you like it or not get their powers from deities.
Yes its primarily the oath, but where do you think those powers come from? A paladins powers come from deities. A Paladins powers are sponsored from deities through their oaths so too speak. Break that oath, the deities shut the power off, and more nefarious forces then offer their sponsorship. Furthermore, to whom do you pledge the oath, yourself? Pledging an oath to the ether/thin air doesnt give you jack s..t.
Now if your one of those people who only read the rules literally and dont care where their powers come from. Who dont care that the world you play in actually makes some sense, then more power to you. Most d&d players choose a deity for their Paladin, even though they are not forced too.
Ill repeat Read SCAG. "Most paladins are dedicated to A deity.
Discussion on the subject closed, atleast with me.
Sorry, I thought my point was clearer than it evidently wasn’t. There are no mechanics for Paladin deity selection in tabletop, so there is no reason to expect such in BG3. It is merely an optional role playing decision left up the player.
