What is your Knighthood?
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The Order of the Red
Branch
What year was your Knighthood formed?
First player knighted
was on Oct. 18th, 2003 at the Black & White Masquerade
The result of a “one
year” plot, that started at the Black & White in 1998, designed and developed
to create a new knightly order within the game.
What does your knighthood stand for?
Promoting each
individual to form their own opinion and act on it accordingly.
What are your tenants?
"To always do what
YOU deem is right, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks."
What is your symbol?
What is your symbol?
A red rowan branch of 15
leaves on a black field.
Did you have a traditional Knightly power, if so what was it?
Not from the olden days, but we do have a recognized power when the Chimeronian "Trappings of Civilization" are in effect. It is called "Force of Will", and as the name sounds, it allows us to exert our will upon our surroundings to allow us to accomplish feats that might not otherwise be possible.
Not from the olden days, but we do have a recognized power when the Chimeronian "Trappings of Civilization" are in effect. It is called "Force of Will", and as the name sounds, it allows us to exert our will upon our surroundings to allow us to accomplish feats that might not otherwise be possible.
What do you look for when selecting squires?
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Each knight looks for
something different, but it boils down to:
Having a good positive
attitude towards the game and meshing well with at least one knight’s way of
doing things.
What is your squiring process like?
1. If a knight identifies
someone they would like to squire, they talk to them about the order and about
the possibility of working together.
If as potential squire
approaches the order, the knights hold a meeting to discuss whether the
candidate would be a good fit with one of them.
2. They are then either
squired to the Order itself or to a specific knight and given a red belt with a
black rowan branch on it. Either way, as
a squire of the Order, they can expect to be charged with tasks by any of the
Knights.
3. The Squire will then
spend years working with their Knight or other members of the Order growing and
developing as an individual until one day they are recognized by the order as a
whole.
Who is your current Knight Commander?
Dame Brynn Colteor
McKrye - Princess of Chimeron
Who are your currently
active Knights?
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Dame Brynn Colteor
McKrye
Sir Magnus Heavyhammer
Sir Rorin Akanar
Sir Laurante D'Rhian
Dame Makela DarkWillow
Sir Chan Ottokar
Away with the Fae Court:
Sir Ged
Duke Zula of the Fae
Courts
King Owen ap Cuchulain
of the Fae Courts
Leave of absence:
Sir BrightHammer
IceBreaker
Do you have any interesting stories from your Knighthoods past?
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I think the single best
knighting I have ever been to or done was the knighting of Sir BrightHammer. It was when my character Owen was still a PC
and he was leading a Realms wide war effort to re-take Fae from the false King
Oberon. BrightHammer had always been a
great asset and friend to Owen in this and I had named him one of my
lieutenants; however, he had decided to throw his lot in with Robin the Duke of
Monstrosity who was leader of a third faction in the war. I called him out on this in the middle of
court at a Feast of Chimeron and took back the badge I’d given him as a
lieutenant. Bud (who played
BrightHammer) was so dumbstruck and with shock/anger/frustration he couldn’t
say anything….which was good in that it prevented him from interrupting when I
then pulled out a knightly belt of our order and offered it to him in
replacement. Meanwhile, as this
happened, the other Knights who of course knew what was going on had quietly
come up from behind to be ready to welcome him into the Order. To see the look on his face as his emotions
did a complete 180…transitioned from shock of anger…all the way to stunned with
joy…priceless.
Anything else?
Additional factoids:
Another name for the Order is “the Order of the Raven”. This is due to a plot mis-que at the first
event which launched the quest to found the new order.
The quest started at a Black & White Masquerade Ball in
1998 and as such the event holds a particular importance to the Order. We now attempt to hold and annual meeting
there each year IC & OOC.
The first person knighted to the Order was Owen Colteor
McKrye, who later became known as Owen ap Cuchulain (aka Cuchulain). He was knighted in silence by the spirit of
the previous Knight Commander after finally being put to rest.
The “youngest” (ie. newest) squire of the Order is given the
lineage squire belt, which bares the names of all the squires before them,
until such time as another squire is taken in the order or they are
knighted. In each case they’re knight is
responsible for providing their new belt.