Knighting Information at PK

[Iasin the Steward]

At Phantasy Kingdom it is possible for anyone to become a Knight. This is even true of Medieval Europe. With enough money and training anyone can succeed. The following steps are in conjunction with the real world way of doing it.

There is three steps to becoming a Knight at PK;

1. Start as a Page

This process often starts in the pages own home. They are taught courtesy and appropriate manners. At the age of Seven (7) For seven years a page was cared for by the women of the house, who instructed him in comportment (personal bearing or conduct; demeanor; behavior), courtesy, cleanliness, and faith. Some may serve as a waiter and personal servant, entertaining and serving food to the elders. He would learn basic hunting and also various battle skills such as taking care of, preparing, and riding horses, as well as use of weapons and armour.

2. Become a Squire

A page became a squire when they turn 14 years of age. When they became a squire, they are assigned or picked by a knight to become his personal aide. This allowed the squire to observe his master while he was in battle, in order to learn from their techniques. A squire also acts as a servant to the knight, taking care of thier master’s equipment and horse. This is to uphold the knight’s code that promotes generosity, courtesy, compassion, and most importantly, loyalty. The knight acts as a tutor and taught the squire all he needed to know to become a knight. The squire will be eventually expected to follow their master into battle, and attend to thier master if the knight fell in battle.

3. Become Knighted

A squire became a knight when he was about 18 to 21 years old. Once the squire has established sufficient mastery of the required skills, they are be dubbed a knight. There is no set age for this at PK, but it is expected the Knight is dubbed before they are no longer able to fight. The night before the knighting ceremony, the squire will take a cleansing bath, fast, perform any meditative or prayer ritual all night, readying themself for his life as a knight. Then they will go through the knighting ceremony the following day. Knights followed the code of chivalry, which promoted honor, honesty, respect to God, and other knightly virtues.

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The Knight Ceremony.

The Squire will be dressed in a white shirt. They will donn over that a tunic and britches that are of the same color showing alliegance to thier master or kingdom. If the Squire has a sword already, they will wear it and present it to the monarch. The monarch will make a speech and then ask the squire to repeat the vows of a Knight (Code of Chivalry). The monarch will then dubb them and return the sword. In the field the Squire will kneel and be dubbed by the Kings sword after the vows. The New Knight will be commanded to rise and then face the 'crowd' where they will 'give recognition'.

Code of Chivalry

I Swear to honor the kingdom to which I have sworn fealty.
I Swear to not recoil before the enemy.
I Swear to faithfully perform my noble duties unless contrary to the laws of the land.
I Swear to never lie and will remain faithful to my word.
I Swear to be generous and thou shalt give freely to everyone in need.
I Swear to always be the champion of the right and the good against injustice.
As a Knight, I * name* will uphold these vows from this day forward.

[ogunshi]

There is also the historical way of becoming a knight. You have a sword, armor and a horse. You are a knight. You could even have a few people claim you are one as well.

Of course this kind of goes against the concept of the ‘noble knight’.

Still what requirements are you going to have for knighthood within the kingdom? I mean it can’t be something that is just given away to anyone.

[Iasin the Steward]

Well, I was thinkng there should be some sort of 'battle' testing on the field. perhaps a 'verbal' test on the vows and some of the different aspects taught.

Any thoughts?

[Iasin the Steward]

The testing wil be conducted by the Knight Commander.

S/He may assign a panel of testors. not more than three including the Commander.

[Vellaina of Orithyia]

I like that you left that open for a female to be more actively involved

[Iasin the Steward]

And why wouldnt we? This is the modern times, though we are represnting an ancient world.