So without paying attention I screwed myself out of the paladin class by agreeing to plant the trees, from what I can tell going through searches on here this has been a bug since at LEAST 2018. I have seen multiple people ask how to fix this so I dug into save file editing and while I can make a new save and grab all the paladins pledge steps from it that are good, doesnt work. I tried creating a brand new save and looking at the raw quest data, it doesnt exist until you start it, so I tried deleting it still doesnt work. Seems that there are multiple checks all around probably tied to each PC that you talk to that you have to manually reset to restart the quest progress. All of this could just be resolved by the devs fixing their 5 year old bug but if I find out how to fix it ill update, seems most of the flags in this game seem to bug the hell out half the events I cant seem to trigger and I would really not restart my game.