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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2276647" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>This came up in the 'land for new noble' thread - I was wondering if anyone can help:</p><p></p><p>A feature of my campaign world are the Orders of Knighthood, the way they've developed they're kinda midway between historical Crown Knights (Order of the Garter, Order of the Bath etc) and the Religious Orders (Knights Templar, Teutonic Knights, etc) - they swear allegiance to the King or Lord who heads the Order, but they also have a religious element. Eg the Thrinian Knights are dedicated to the war-god Thrin, there are Chapters of the Thrinian Knights in various realms, in the Overkingdom of Imarr the Thrinian Knights are headed by Archduke Ulfius of Colladel, who encourages the nobles of Colladel to join the Order - thus increasing his own power and the power of the Order. The nominal head of all the Thrinian Knight chapters is the King of the country of Thrinia, King Hansor, so it's also a trans-national body. In a war between the Overkingdom of Imarr and the Kingdom of Thrinia, the Colladel chapter would almost certainly side with Thrinia, so this Lawful-Good order are regarded by the Overking as potential traitors (albeit useful ones).</p><p></p><p>The Overking of Imarr has his own order of militant knights, the Imperial Knights Bloodhammer, dedicated to the gods Odin-Olorun & Ksarul, who are both a military asset and a way to centralise his own power. Other realms' kings are developing orders of knighthood based on this model that fuses church & state power, eg the Kingdom of Trafalgis' Raven Knights (dedicated to Odin & King Sigurd).</p><p></p><p>I was wondering if anyone has useful source material I could read up on re anything historically similar? I have the problem that these Orders are clearly not monks/priests like the Templars, but they clearly share many Templar characteristics. I'm thinking Teutonic Knights would be closest?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 2276647, member: 463"] This came up in the 'land for new noble' thread - I was wondering if anyone can help: A feature of my campaign world are the Orders of Knighthood, the way they've developed they're kinda midway between historical Crown Knights (Order of the Garter, Order of the Bath etc) and the Religious Orders (Knights Templar, Teutonic Knights, etc) - they swear allegiance to the King or Lord who heads the Order, but they also have a religious element. Eg the Thrinian Knights are dedicated to the war-god Thrin, there are Chapters of the Thrinian Knights in various realms, in the Overkingdom of Imarr the Thrinian Knights are headed by Archduke Ulfius of Colladel, who encourages the nobles of Colladel to join the Order - thus increasing his own power and the power of the Order. The nominal head of all the Thrinian Knight chapters is the King of the country of Thrinia, King Hansor, so it's also a trans-national body. In a war between the Overkingdom of Imarr and the Kingdom of Thrinia, the Colladel chapter would almost certainly side with Thrinia, so this Lawful-Good order are regarded by the Overking as potential traitors (albeit useful ones). The Overking of Imarr has his own order of militant knights, the Imperial Knights Bloodhammer, dedicated to the gods Odin-Olorun & Ksarul, who are both a military asset and a way to centralise his own power. Other realms' kings are developing orders of knighthood based on this model that fuses church & state power, eg the Kingdom of Trafalgis' Raven Knights (dedicated to Odin & King Sigurd). I was wondering if anyone has useful source material I could read up on re anything historically similar? I have the problem that these Orders are clearly not monks/priests like the Templars, but they clearly share many Templar characteristics. I'm thinking Teutonic Knights would be closest? [/QUOTE]
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