
You don't have to acknowledge any healing powers whatsoever. I mean, you could be a glorified gladiator, really.
I went the route of Siobhain that she was trained by a Sultansworn but never became one herself. Instead she went the route of becoming a knight-errant; taking her skills and using them to protect people as she wanders around selling her blacksmith wares. She wouldn't be as good as a Sultansworn, not having completed her training, and her combat style is very rough and less finessed than I imagine many older, true Paladins'. She is, however, extremely religious. Not that I think that really has any connection to being a Paladin in FF like it does in, say, WoW.
I went the route of Siobhain that she was trained by a Sultansworn but never became one herself. Instead she went the route of becoming a knight-errant; taking her skills and using them to protect people as she wanders around selling her blacksmith wares. She wouldn't be as good as a Sultansworn, not having completed her training, and her combat style is very rough and less finessed than I imagine many older, true Paladins'. She is, however, extremely religious. Not that I think that really has any connection to being a Paladin in FF like it does in, say, WoW.