Companions of the Noble Heart The Companions of the Noble Heart were a knightly order of paladin s devoted to the faith of Ilmater , the One Who Endures . Activities . The Companions of the Noble Heart had the duty of seeking out destroying the cruel , those people who tortured and enjoyed the suffering of others . The Companions were very aggressive in seeking out their chosen adversaries . They especially disliked the church of Loviatar , their greatest foes , and once they had slain all evil - doers within a temple of Loviatar , the Companions would happily destroy the building , right down to the ground . Relations . The Companions of the Noble Heart were friendly with their counterpart order , the Order of the Golden Cup . They took somewhat opposing views , with the Companions as the more aggressive order , the Golden Cup as the more peaceful . The Companions often joined other followers of the Triad of gods in crusades against the minions of Loviatar , the Maiden of Pain . Abilities . Some Noble Heart paladins pursued the path of a holy warrior and a hunter in service to their faith . As hunters , they learned the skills of wilderness survival and tracking . They were dogged in the pursuit of tormentors , and could develop supernatural skill in following the tracks of Loviatans . Such hunters had only to touch the body of one recently harmed by a Loviatan to see the true face of their attacker . Some were especially capable of destroying any object dedicated to Loviatar with a blow of their weapon . They used this to destroy Loviatan weapons , holy objects , temples , and even regular possessions owned by a lay follower of Loviatar . They could even smite such objects as if they were evil creatures themselves . Some even learned to smite evil more often , purely for the purposes of combating Loviatans and their works , and could resist Loviatan assaults upon the body . Whereas paladins typically learned to cast " remove disease " , Noble Heart paladins could learn the spell " delay poison " instead , which they used to resist and protect against the poison ed weapons of their enemies . Noble Heart paladins could practice freely as fighter s and divine champion s . History . Around 1265 DR , the Companions of the Noble Heart were recruited to defend the Ilmatari priests of the House of Holy Suffering in Mussum — against their fellow priests of the House of the Broken God in Keltar . Archsufferer Bloirt Waelarn of the Keltar house had denounced those of the Mussum house for refusing to relinquish the " Tome of Torment " , the holiest book of the faith , and declared them degenerate , mentally ill heretics . The Mussum priests and the Companions attacked Waelarn and his followers , labeling them " false clerics " and " subverted by evil " . An angry Waelarn summoned three other knightly orders — the Holy Warriors of Suffering , the Knights of the Bleeding Shield , and the Order of the Golden Cup — to his side and vowed holy war against the " unclean ones of Mussum " and their allies . The war saw the violent clashes of Holy Hill Farm in 1266 DR and Bronsheir ' s Charge and Weeping Rock in 1267 DR . Finally , Lord Sir Jargus Holenhond of the Golden Cup called an end to the bloodshed between true believers , insisted that the " Tome of Torment " be transferred to Keltar as planned , and blamed Bloirt Waelarn for the senseless violence , determining that he should be removed from office and sent into hermitage for the remainder of his years . The weary paladins accepted and carried out his judgment . The Companions of the Noble Heart remained active through the 1360s and early 1370s DR .