Kore the Paladin

Kore The Paladin is a villain in the webcomics Goblins.

Description
Kore is a dwarvern paladin who has made it his mission to vanquish all evil in the world of Goblins. He believes that all monsters are evil, and indiscriminately slaughters orcs, ogres, and goblins alike, in a world where it is clear that they are no more dedicated to evil than humans.

In his first appearance, Kore attacks a tavern housing several orcs and an ogre, as well as a dwarf child who had been raised by an orc who had killed his father last winter. When the orcs realize his presence, the ogre immediately warns the others that if he gets inside his tavern, they will all be dead, and that he had slaughtered entire armies.

After killing the orc assigned to guard the tavern by snapping his neck, Kore takes the keys from him and unlocks the tavern. He immediately slaughters everyone inside, including the dwarvern child, telling him that he had been hopelessly tainted, even after the orc who adopted him begged him to spare his life with his dying breath.

A few days later, Thaco warns his goblin adventuring party about him after he notices him in the distance, telling his party that no monster was safe as long as he was nearby. Bigears asks Thaco how he can kill the innocent and still retain his paladin powers, to which he is unable to explain.

Afterwords, Kore comes across the eponymous Goblins of the comic. When one of the goblins stays behind to hold him off, Kore the Paladin proceeds to torture him horribly, knowing that his cries of anguish will cause his comrades to return to him.

When Minmax and Forgath arrive to battle the Goblin Adventuring Party (believing them to be a threat to the world at large due to the legend of the White Terror), he proceeds to attack them as well.