The Kingdom of Ranma would have horrified visitors from neighbouring Crystal Spheres and planes. Minions of evil would have tried to take over from what they saw as a weak human leader, and fanatics of good would have set about destroying the abode of so many vile monsters and the vilian that lead them.
The new citizens knew this and they also knew that they couldn't stay hidden forever. Someone was going to come looking for them. Someone was bound to have noticed for their rag-tag fleet of spelljammers and wonder where it had fled. Even if they weren't found on purpose, some adventurous party was bound to just stumble upon them.
So the new Ranmajin decided that their leige lord should be clearly, and unmistakable, a champion of good.
A Paladin's basic code of conduct was very similar to the code of martial arts Genma had taugh to Ranma. However, the Prince had to learn to truely follow it, not just pay lip service. He showed promise despite Genma's influence.
Within the first year he learned how to channel positive energy and combined it with a rudimentary knowledge of reiki healing. After that breakthrough his advancement was considered truely remarkable. Humans were well known for their versitility, but Ranma was a prodigy by any standard.
He remained a rather monkish paladin; multiclassing in a way which shouldn't have been possible. Ranma continued to distain a reliance on weapons and armor as a cutch and continued to train in unarmed combat; though an introduction to various oozes that infested the surounding jungles and underdark convinced him that there were things he just didn't want to fight with his bare hands.
Most human paladins worked as squires to knights during their early teens but, at an age when they'd only be beginning their own careers, Ranma was ready to call the special mount that was a Paladin's trademark. A silver dragon named M'rabrygte answered the call, offering to be his stead and companion.
When it was realised that she could transform into a rather attractive moon elf, and was spending an unseemly amount of time in that form, the senate of representatives quickly agreed that a young hero should have the company of others his age. Somehow the companions they selected for the prince also all turned out to be young females, even the beholder offered to become the royal company's cleric.
Well, it was assumed that a beholder named Iris was female, though nobody was quite sure about it; or if the beholders really understood that the humanoids' unspoken selection criteria was aimed at eventually providing a royal heir.
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