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The No hunting civlizend ageless thing
From the preview we learn that the was a rule to not hunt ageless that could live peaceful with the living. But who put it and why have it in the first place because we can assume that most if not all paladins are ok with killing ageless so why would a GP put that there in the first place?
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While in general the paladins view ageless as evil due how bopen and his crew act in that for the most part they go around killing people to make more ageless
But the grand paladins are still people with emotions and understanding. If an ageless is trying their best to live a peaceful life then why attack them? Its stirring up trouble for everyone around them and putting paladin's lives in danger just to kill someone with no ill will.
But now Gwyneth only has eyes for revenge. If killing Bopen or getting him to react and face her means stirring up trouble by slaughtering ageless shes fine with that. Nothing matters except getting closer to Bopen now for her.
Pre-Bone Vision, going out to kill Ageless was a logistical nightmare. With only the primitive Ageless detection methods at their disposal (basically any spell that only works on Living) there really wasn't anything that could be done to stop them from walking around, so the Paladins decided not to bother and call it a day.
So they only received reliable detection methods recently. Otherwise, this campaign would end up being about Paladins killing random people in hopes that the living will expose their Ageless friends to save their skin. It's simple logistics. With the new spell, it's turned from a war of espionage and intelligence into an actual world war, with all the destruction and the strife.
My god. Phineas has the power to marry anyone he pleases to anyone else.
Alessa Stonemason: "Phineas! Your reign of terror ends here."
Phineas Barringster: "Ah, my poor little stonemason. You wouldn't have the stones to kill... your husband!"
Alessa: "Noooooo!!"
In fact, after trying to find them, they're not accessible at all, and I don't know if an archive of them exists or not.
Initiating the Purge is probably them deciding the peaceful ones could be spies that will feed Bopen information or that they could be used a s a guerilla force in elven lands (which is kinda what the cult of bones seems to be doing). That stopping these potential advantages for Bopen are more important then the downsides that led to them ignoring peaceful ageless.
Let's look at the logistical issues with assassinating individual ageless in different communities. . There is presumably no way to force an ageless to transform, and if all suspected people were rounded up and executed. There would be false positives. Which leads to the second greatest issue. Trust and faith in the Order. Even if the GPO has accepted authority across the lands and between any existing Kingdoms or States. If GPO justicars marched into a city and demanded people to appear for execution. Eventually these communities would generally resist and possibly attack Paladins of the Order on sight. There would be variance, but armed thugs appearing in your town demanding tribute would quickly erode any good faith the Order has. And this is assuming the Order is strictly comprised of volunteers from all walks of life. Some guided by the Light, and others simply fetching the water. And the last massive issue for concern is the amount of resources it would take to routinely exterminate otherwise innocuous individuals. Most ageless that live somewhat normal lives would most likely keep this a secret from everyone in their lives. Even from their spouses and their children. How is the Order going to collect intel on who is ageless? Much less the food equipment and the infantry to spare to send off to the country. Where the ageless thralls could surge the front lines at literally any second with no warning.
That's why I think the Grand Paladin Order is ambivalent to the civilized ageless. It's a risky position to spread resources thin, at possibly no net gain or even a net loss. The GPO does not condone civilized ageless, but unless they melt their flesh in front of them. Most paladins will not be aware of that, nor will they investigate.