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**KNIGHTS**: | **KNIGHTS**: | ||
- | **To Become a Knight**: | + | **To Become a Knight**: |
- | Since the equipage for a knight runs about 600gp, it can be difficult to afford to become a knight. | + | Since the equipage for a knight runs to many hundreds of gold pieces, it can be difficult to afford to become a knight. |
**Benefits of Knighthood**: | **Benefits of Knighthood**: | ||
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- Trial by Combat: An accused knight can refuse trial by jury of his fellow knights in exchange for trial by combat with his accuser or the accuser’s champion. | - Trial by Combat: An accused knight can refuse trial by jury of his fellow knights in exchange for trial by combat with his accuser or the accuser’s champion. | ||
- Honor: A knight who is struck or insulted has the legal right to a duel to get satisfaction from his equals and may inflict disproportionate retribution on lower-order men who have so besmirched his honor. | - Honor: A knight who is struck or insulted has the legal right to a duel to get satisfaction from his equals and may inflict disproportionate retribution on lower-order men who have so besmirched his honor. | ||
- | - Command: Only knights can raise or command bodies of soldiers within the Realm (thus merchant caravans and temples eagerly seek knights-errant to command their guards). | + | - Command: Only knights can raise or command bodies of soldiers |
- Joust: Only knights may joust at tournaments, | - Joust: Only knights may joust at tournaments, | ||
- | Obligations of Knighthood | + | **Obligations of Knighthood** |
- Service: If a Duke, Prince or the King issues the “Call to Arms” all knights within the lands in question are required to muster at the army’s gathering place. | - Service: If a Duke, Prince or the King issues the “Call to Arms” all knights within the lands in question are required to muster at the army’s gathering place. | ||
- Loyalty: A knight cannot serve against the Realm or will be forever marked as a traitor and stripped of his knighthood—and likely tried and executed. | - Loyalty: A knight cannot serve against the Realm or will be forever marked as a traitor and stripped of his knighthood—and likely tried and executed. | ||
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**Degrees of Knighthood** | **Degrees of Knighthood** | ||
* A Knight Errant is a free-roaming knight with no lord who must earn his own income | * A Knight Errant is a free-roaming knight with no lord who must earn his own income | ||
- | * A Knight of the Household receives | + | * A Knight of the Household receives |
* A Knight-Vassal receives a house of some sort and at least a square mile of land, with its peasant tenants in exchange for 2 months of military service per year to his lord without pay. | * A Knight-Vassal receives a house of some sort and at least a square mile of land, with its peasant tenants in exchange for 2 months of military service per year to his lord without pay. | ||
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**Squires** | **Squires** | ||
- | • Each knight requires a personal attendant called a squire. He is either a knight-in-training or a loyal retainer who is either a level-1 | + | • Each knight requires a personal attendant called a squire. He is either a knight-in-training or a loyal retainer who is either a fighter or jack. |
- | • The squire counts as one of the knight’s henchmen | + | • The squire counts as one of the knight’s henchmen. |
• The knight must supply the squire with a horse and saddle, suit of armor (of any type), some weaponry (typically a mace and dagger) and a pair of silver spurs (3gp). | • The knight must supply the squire with a horse and saddle, suit of armor (of any type), some weaponry (typically a mace and dagger) and a pair of silver spurs (3gp). | ||
- | • The squire serves until he reaches 2nd level at which time he will either be knighted or leave service to quest for the wherewithal to gain knighthood. | + | • A trainee |
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