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<blockquote data-quote="Emiricol" data-source="post: 375125" data-attributes="member: 469">&lt;i&gt;To me&lt;/i&gt;, it is really not that specific.&nbsp; It's that certain, &quot;[insert snobby French cliche here]&quot; that sets the &quot;knight&quot; apart from mere mortals.&nbsp; Many cultures have had elite men who towered above other men - in their acts, their deeds...&nbsp; These are the men who ultimately represented the ideals of the day.&nbsp; Men held up as examples to other men.&nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Who made other men strive to be greater&lt;/i&gt;.&nbsp; Who generally fought for more than the money they could loot from small French coastal villages.Never mind that most of it was all BS.&nbsp; There's a lot of examples - Beowulf is a good one I suppose, as he never wore interlocking metal plates when he took out Grendel, Inc. and I'd laugh to see him pining away at some Swiss maiden's window.So I figure, what might inspire a Hobgoblin (or a Roman) to legendary greatness?&nbsp; Certainly not just being a consummate warrior.&nbsp; Half the damn country have that one covered just fine.&nbsp; And the whole unrequited love thing just isn't their style.&nbsp; Their very code of honor was very different, I'd imagine.Thus my dilemma <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; I definitely recognize that this is all subjective as hell anyway, but hoping some of it flips the creativity switch to the &quot;on&quot; position for me...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emiricol, post: 375125, member: 469"] To me, it is really not that specific. It's that certain, "[insert snobby French cliche here]" that sets the "knight" apart from mere mortals. Many cultures have had elite men who towered above other men - in their acts, their deeds... These are the men who ultimately represented the ideals of the day. Men held up as examples to other men. Who made other men strive to be greater. Who generally fought for more than the money they could loot from small French coastal villages. Never mind that most of it was all BS. There's a lot of examples - Beowulf is a good one I suppose, as he never wore interlocking metal plates when he took out Grendel, Inc. and I'd laugh to see him pining away at some Swiss maiden's window. So I figure, what might inspire a Hobgoblin (or a Roman) to legendary greatness? Certainly not just being a consummate warrior. Half the damn country have that one covered just fine. And the whole unrequited love thing just isn't their style. Their very code of honor was very different, I'd imagine. Thus my dilemma :) I definitely recognize that this is all subjective as hell anyway, but hoping some of it flips the creativity switch to the "on" position for me... [/QUOTE]

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