Quote Originally Posted by VCassara View Post
Exactly!!!! Everything you said is completly correct, and that is why I mentioned at the start of this discussion that I think the PLD lore is completly wrong. In my opinion (note that I said in my opinion, you can think different) Paladin is a holy class/job in any game (including FF AFAIK) and SE completly ignored that.
The term 'Paladin' existed long before any computer games existed. Long before the term "RPG" was coined.
It was originally (centuries after the fact) used for the knights at Charlemagne's court (the "Twelve Peers" of legend) as well as for the knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.

While all of these were supposedly highly virtuous knights, they were not holy people with supernatural powers.
They could easily be described as "knights in extra-shiny armour".

So the FFXIV version of a Paladin is no less correct lore-wise than that of other computer games.