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A Question Answered
Written by: Draqoom Van Helsing
Date: Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
Addressed to: Overseer Grandue Xeh'ria, Keeper of the Iron Crown
Well met,
While I cannot speak for the majority of the questions posed in your post (22104), I can speak from experience on at least some.
"And what do you do in situations where one Nation's ideology and religious doctrines demand of them what other Knights might consider to be dishonorable by their own culture's standards?"
"If a Knight's God tells them to bring low another nation at any cost,(...)?"
While my situation may be singular, at least in this instance they held a council amongst their leaders to deem whether or not my earned Knight status and the oaths I took and upheld, even after leaving the originating City and Organisation, were in conflict with my God-Given duty.
The most bizarre thing though, as they stripped my Knighthood from me, was the reassurance that of any who might pursue the path I had chosen I was the most worthy of being called Knight and that should I find myself in service to an organisation that they approved of that I would be welcome to take the trials again. Or, even more bizarre, could potentially found my own organisation to fall under the ever-respectful and totally not misguided shroud of Knighthood!
Imagine! Me, a disrespected and dishonored former Knight allowed to form my own chapter in service to Them, somehow, as a non-Knight in a then City that would not allow such things following a God that granted me the path to Knighthood that was then stripped... If your head hurts, imagine how mine felt and still does when I see any such Knight make any claims whatsoever.
Oh, and let's not forget that when I requested specifically afterwards to redeem myself under the guidance of Ser Aerek I was rejected as 'Rogue Knights lack a sufficient purpose to devote themselves to in order to be a true Knight'.
...
Yes, the supposed only acceptable Rogue Knight telling me his very existance was antithetical to the very foundation he was a part of.
In any event, I hope you found at least this answer acceptable, perhaps slightly enlightening, and I encourage and enjoy your skill in not only detecting, but laying bare the flaws in the fabrics of mortalkind.
In service,
Draqoom Van Helsing
Penned by my hand on the 8th of Valnuary, in the year 965 AF.
A Question Answered
Written by: Draqoom Van Helsing
Date: Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
Addressed to: Overseer Grandue Xeh'ria, Keeper of the Iron Crown
Well met,
While I cannot speak for the majority of the questions posed in your post (22104), I can speak from experience on at least some.
"And what do you do in situations where one Nation's ideology and religious doctrines demand of them what other Knights might consider to be dishonorable by their own culture's standards?"
"If a Knight's God tells them to bring low another nation at any cost,(...)?"
While my situation may be singular, at least in this instance they held a council amongst their leaders to deem whether or not my earned Knight status and the oaths I took and upheld, even after leaving the originating City and Organisation, were in conflict with my God-Given duty.
The most bizarre thing though, as they stripped my Knighthood from me, was the reassurance that of any who might pursue the path I had chosen I was the most worthy of being called Knight and that should I find myself in service to an organisation that they approved of that I would be welcome to take the trials again. Or, even more bizarre, could potentially found my own organisation to fall under the ever-respectful and totally not misguided shroud of Knighthood!
Imagine! Me, a disrespected and dishonored former Knight allowed to form my own chapter in service to Them, somehow, as a non-Knight in a then City that would not allow such things following a God that granted me the path to Knighthood that was then stripped... If your head hurts, imagine how mine felt and still does when I see any such Knight make any claims whatsoever.
Oh, and let's not forget that when I requested specifically afterwards to redeem myself under the guidance of Ser Aerek I was rejected as 'Rogue Knights lack a sufficient purpose to devote themselves to in order to be a true Knight'.
...
Yes, the supposed only acceptable Rogue Knight telling me his very existance was antithetical to the very foundation he was a part of.
In any event, I hope you found at least this answer acceptable, perhaps slightly enlightening, and I encourage and enjoy your skill in not only detecting, but laying bare the flaws in the fabrics of mortalkind.
In service,
Draqoom Van Helsing
Penned by my hand on the 8th of Valnuary, in the year 965 AF.