Antoran Chivalry: Difference between revisions

The Antoran Precepts for Honorable and Chivalric Life were written in 1355 by King Marius Ignatius II of Réal. The king was considered a scholar in his day and was a great student of philosophy. The Precepts were written as part of a larger effort by Marius Ignatius II to set standards for behavior in his court and on the battlefield. The entire text was unique at the time for its total disregard for religious doctrine and lack of theological content. The king argued that for one to act properly, one did not have to believe in any higher power, as he had seen many men who were avowedly atheist or of completely different religions act with more honor than some Deusist knights of his court. Marius Ignatius II would go on to use the Precepts as the measuring stick by which he measured his court; only those worthy of the office would be knighted and any who were found to have violated a Precept were stripped of their knighthood. This, while unpopular with many members of the Réoran nobility, would ensure that the corps of professional ''caballeros'' the king retained were so respected and so skilled they remain immortalized in Antoran culture as 'The Righteous Brotherhood.'

 

 

# As a knight, you will perform the duty required of you by your lord and your monarch, so long as the duty is Fair, Just, and Good.