You should have been a playwright not a Paladin.

The most recent tale you have to offer us being a
prime example of how to disguise your true motives
beneath a rather quaint exterior.

Protecting the innocent is simply your method for
providing advance justification for your bloodlust.

Your lack of dedication to the announced motive is
rather apparent, in your cringing reference to the
contagions suffered by the lepers. Even more
amusing, you discount the protection of other villages
due to their distance, whilst providing no other
alernative for the poor folk who reside there.

Thus your "Protectorate" plan amounts to little more
than a convenience scam whereby you get to slaughter
anyone within the villages that lie within a short
jog of your home.

And finally, to end on a positive note, I give you
a hearty round of applause for leading astray so
many other young and impressionable Paladins...

-AV

Penned by my hand on the 7th of Midsummer, in the year 61 MA.