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<b>Current Knights</b>
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* Isal, earth archmage, Lady of the Knights
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* Xenelien, fire templar, Captain of Ilthar
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* Dalacad
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* Chknyki, inducted 29/7/03
  
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THE KNIGHTS OF ENAERAI
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The Order of the Knights of Enaerai is military society of dedicants
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to the ideals of balance. These dedicants have taken the most solemn
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and binding of oaths to live a balanced life and serve the greater
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balance by seeing it maintained in the world around them.
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The paramount duty in mainting the balance is to keep an equilibrium
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among the Great Houses who would horde the Stones of Power.  The
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Knights seek to limit the influence of the Stones by keeping them as
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seperate and divided as possible.  The Knights make full use of any
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means available, but are organized as a military order, as force can
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often be the only means of intervention in House affairs.
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The life of a knight is a difficult one, requiring much dedication,
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fortitude, and perserverance.  It should not be chosen lightly. 
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Those who are neutral in both alignment and ethos may become Knights
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of Enaerai, if they are deemed worthy of the order.  However, any who
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are tainted with imbalance by the practice of spirit or void magics
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will not find entrance. 
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Enaerai is held by the order as a the guiding deity of balance, though
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no active worship is required.  Knights observe Mettenday, the the
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first calendar day of every month on the standard Avendarian calendar,
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as a day of rest, recuperation, and assembly.  No efforts to actively
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enforce balance are made on Mettenday.  The Knights are based in the
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Fortress of the Eye, a stronghold in the western Brintors.
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Adventurers interested in joining the Knights of Enaerai should
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address a note to KNIGHT, detailing how their history, past deeds,
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and current abilities make them a fitting candidate.
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KNIGHTS 2
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  The Organization of the Knight Order
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<b>Applicants</b>
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*Vynlyan - July 12 <B>Vynlyan has deleted</B>
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  M' name is Vynlyann Calstrinest, a lit'l student of the art of the staff.
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M' father before m' and 'is father before 'im have served the lady, and the
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eye all their lives, an' now I come ta make my life within th' same.  M'
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accent may be thick but I can tell ya that m' mind and staff are no'. 
  
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  The Order of the Knights of Enaerai is organized in a simple fashion, to
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  I've lived with the balance all m' life.  M' father retired to Ashta Harrud
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function effectively as a military body in carrying out the task of
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  after he retired, and that is where i've gotten mot me training from ta be
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maintaining the balance in Avendar.
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  honest.  M' father was a knight of knights as he tells me, and I 'ope that I
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  Knight Ranks:              Knight Leadership:
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  True Knight                Knight Lord[[/Lady]]
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  Veteran Knight            Knight of Ilthar
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  Seasoned Knight            Knight of Idris
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  Steadfast Knight          Knight of Mett
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  Knight of Enaerai
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  Knight Acolyte
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  Knight Initiate
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  Knight Enlistee
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The ranks are based on the amount of service given to the Order. The
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  leadership roles are held among the knights, and the task of directing
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  the work of the knights is theirs.  In the absence of leaders, the
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senior ranking knight directs the work.
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LEADERSHIP
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The Knight Lord[[/Lady]] is chosen by Irionne, the Chief Priest of
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Enaerai, when the post becomes vacant. The Knight Lord[[/Lady]] is
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responsible for all that happens within the Order, but may name
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  three Knights as Ilthar, Idris, and Mett, to assist in particulars
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of the work.
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  Duties of the Lord[[/Lady]]:
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  - lead the knights in the work of maintaining balance
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  - recruit and induct new Knights
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  - keeping the Order informed of significant happenings among
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    the Knights and throughout the realm. 
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  - uninduct knights who prove unfaithful or unfit for the Order
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  - appoint the Knight of Ilthar, Knight of Idris, and Knight of Mett
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Duties of the Knight of Ilthar:
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  - serve as the battle-leader, second in command under the Lord[[/Lady]]
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    in military actions
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  - master the stratagems and tactics of battle
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  - help knights train skills and advance abilities
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Duties of the Knight of Idris:
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  - serve as a lore-master for the knights
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  - master and help develop the philosophies of balance
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  - instruct newer knights in their duties and in the ways of balance
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Duties of the Knight of Mett:
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  - serve as the master of reconnaissance and information-gathering
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  - keep Lord[[/Lady]] and Order informed of information regarding Houses
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  - serve as the diplomatic envoy, second under the Lord[[/Lady]] in
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    diplomatic matters and actions
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I've been taught nothing but the balance in me life, the teachin's and the
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principl's an now I come to ask if I can be gran'ed the chance to prove both
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m' staff and my 'eart to the lady an yers'lves. 
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*Anghwyr - July 20
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Hail, knights, or 'haps hail Xenelien, who be the Knight I 'ave met.
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I've spoken of Enaerai with 'im, an' with those guid'd by the windwolf, an'
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learned what I could.  Now I seek a more formal audience, to see if I can
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fit into this pack, or knighthood as yer'd call it.  I am a drui' of true
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balance, an' althoug I r'ceived mos' of my knowledge in the guild in a
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differn' way than through the circle o' druids, I've finish'd my trainin' in
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the guild. 
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The urges of those of the win'wolves I share, somewhat, although I doub'
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those urges are my own, but rather linked to the figure that tracked me down
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i' the hills north of Morn, an' planted a seed of thoughs in me.  I've ha' a
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rather vicious life since then, yet it seems my inner nature is strong
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'nough to be balancin' the wild within me. 
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The Captain Xenelien migh' know more of me, if yer wish to know, an I can be
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written to, or foun' roaming the woods of Avendar. 
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Listenin for yer answer. 
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Anghwyr ar'Yndhe
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* Chknyki - July 28 <B>Inducted</B>
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Kyvaki and I were raised by a pair of newly wed Knights who found us huddled
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together in the carnage of our families shared cave dwelling as wrought by
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the overzealous Champions of the Tower of Aramril.  They raised us in the
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Strictures of the Goddess Enaerai and taught us to be independent while
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teaching to also work together.We were taught to think not only using pure
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logic but to listen to what our intuition was telling us. This Balanced
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approach serves me extremely well as a student of the Arts of the Templars of
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Air.
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We lost our adoptive parents to a raid by vengeance seeking Guardians who were also
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followers of Iandir. They slew them both and burned our home down to the
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ground, fortunately we were already in enrolled in our Guilds in Var Bandor.
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Seeing what imbalances in the Land causes first hand has strengthened my
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resolve to be a Blade for Balance in the Land hopefully as well as a member
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of your Order.  I know that for the Land to grow and evolve there must be
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birth guided by Order and by Good, growth guided by the Balance, and finally
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decay by Chaos and Dark.  All forces working in harmony to create the Balance
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of Existence.
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Please feel free to ask me to aid in any way I can, I am patience and willing
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to let the Goddess` will be done.
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Chkynki
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</pre>
 
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<b>Handling Knight Interactions:</b>
 
<b>Handling Knight Interactions:</b>
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As a rule Enaerai doesn't appear in Avendar to mortals.  Interactions and guidance of knights is generally handled through the NPC Irionne, former priest at the temple of Enaerai who now serves as healer in the knight fortress.  Irionne has typically been played as a seeming senile and doddering old water scholar with occasional moments of clarity and wisdom.
  
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As a rule Enaerai doesn't appear in Avendar to mortals.  Interactions and guidance of knights is generally handled through the NPC Irionne, former priest at the temple of Enaerai who now serves as healer in the knight fortress.  Irionne has typically been played as a seemingly senile and doddering old water scholar with occasional moments of clarity and wisdom.
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When Enaerai does favor a promising knight with interaction, it is through Enaerai's immortal room (<b>1261: A White Plain</b>), where Enaerai appears in vision-like fashion to the knight through the tri-stone upon the hillside.  In even rarer cases Enaerai comes through the tri-stone to interact with a mortal.  However, in Enaerai's concept of balance,
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immortal interaction should be limited less it exert undue influence, and so as painful as it is, Knights are given free reign to run the order (unless they really muck things up, in which case they may be disbanded for a time, as happened in the summer of 2002).
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When Enaerai does favor a promising knight with interaction, it is through Enaerai's immortal room (<b>1261: A White Plain</b>), where Enaerai appears in vision-like fashion to the knight through the tri-stone upon the hillside.  In even rarer cases Enaerai comes through the tri-stone to interact with a mortal.  However, in Enaerai's concept of balance, immortal interaction should be limited less it exert undue influence, and so as painful as it is, Knights are given fairly free reign to run the order (unless they really muck things up, in which case they may be disbanded for a time, as happened in the summer of 2002).
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<b>Origins:</b>
 
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The knights began some two years after Avendar opened, as a player-led group coordinated by me (Dovolente).  I had been brainstorming ideas about a militant order dedicated to upholding balance, and another player (Stimmy) had developed the idea of Enaerai, a balance deity, and we decided to collaborate and invite other players to join us.
 
The knights began some two years after Avendar opened, as a player-led group coordinated by me (Dovolente).  I had been brainstorming ideas about a militant order dedicated to upholding balance, and another player (Stimmy) had developed the idea of Enaerai, a balance deity, and we decided to collaborate and invite other players to join us.
  
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The first group of knights eventually died out, but an occasional player or two would take up the role.
 
The first group of knights eventually died out, but an occasional player or two would take up the role.
  
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When I re-immed in the fall of 01, I chose to take Enaerai as my immortal role, and made the knights a more formalized part of the game.  The knights now form something between a band of Enaerai followers and a House (they have they various house features in the code, aside from a vault that utilizes the stones of power.
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When I re-immed in the fall of 01, I chose to take Enaerai as my immortal role, and made the knights a more formalized part of the game.  The knights now form something between a band of Enaerai followers and a House (they have they various house features in the code, aside from a vault for stones of power, so the various if house checks, house tell, and note to knight work for knights, though technically they aren't a house).
 
-Dov
 
-Dov

Revision as of 16:51, 30 July 2003

Current Knights

  • Isal, earth archmage, Lady of the Knights
  • Xenelien, fire templar, Captain of Ilthar
  • Dalacad
  • Chknyki, inducted 29/7/03

Applicants

  • Vynlyan - July 12 Vynlyan has deleted
M' name is Vynlyann Calstrinest, a lit'l student of the art of the staff.
M' father before m' and 'is father before 'im have served the lady, and the
eye all their lives, an' now I come ta make my life within th' same.  M'
accent may be thick but I can tell ya that m' mind and staff are no'.  

I've lived with the balance all m' life.  M' father retired to Ashta Harrud
after he retired, and that is where i've gotten mot me training from ta be
honest.  M' father was a knight of knights as he tells me, and I 'ope that I
can only live up to his name.  

I've been taught nothing but the balance in me life, the teachin's and the
principl's an now I come to ask if I can be gran'ed the chance to prove both
m' staff and my 'eart to the lady an yers'lves.
  • Anghwyr - July 20 
Hail, knights, or 'haps hail Xenelien, who be the Knight I 'ave met. 
I've spoken of Enaerai with 'im, an' with those guid'd by the windwolf, an'
learned what I could.  Now I seek a more formal audience, to see if I can
fit into this pack, or knighthood as yer'd call it.  I am a drui' of true
balance, an' althoug I r'ceived mos' of my knowledge in the guild in a
differn' way than through the circle o' druids, I've finish'd my trainin' in
the guild.  

The urges of those of the win'wolves I share, somewhat, although I doub'
those urges are my own, but rather linked to the figure that tracked me down
i' the hills north of Morn, an' planted a seed of thoughs in me.  I've ha' a
rather vicious life since then, yet it seems my inner nature is strong
'nough to be balancin' the wild within me.  

The Captain Xenelien migh' know more of me, if yer wish to know, an I can be
written to, or foun' roaming the woods of Avendar.  

Listenin for yer answer.  
Anghwyr ar'Yndhe
  • Chknyki - July 28 Inducted
Kyvaki and I were raised by a pair of newly wed Knights who found us huddled
together in the carnage of our families shared cave dwelling as wrought by
the overzealous Champions of the Tower of Aramril.   They raised us in the
Strictures of the Goddess Enaerai and taught us to be independent while
teaching to also work together.We were taught to think not only using pure
logic but to listen to what our intuition was telling us. This Balanced
approach serves me extremely well as a student of the Arts of the Templars of
Air.

We lost our adoptive parents to a raid by vengeance seeking Guardians who were also
followers of Iandir. They slew them both and burned our home down to the
ground, fortunately we were already in enrolled in our Guilds in Var Bandor. 
Seeing what imbalances in the Land causes first hand has strengthened my
resolve to be a Blade for Balance in the Land hopefully as well as a member
of your Order.  I know that for the Land to grow and evolve there must be
birth guided by Order and by Good, growth guided by the Balance, and finally
decay by Chaos and Dark.  All forces working in harmony to create the Balance
of Existence.

Please feel free to ask me to aid in any way I can, I am patience and willing
to let the Goddess` will be done.

Chkynki

Handling Knight Interactions: As a rule Enaerai doesn't appear in Avendar to mortals. Interactions and guidance of knights is generally handled through the NPC Irionne, former priest at the temple of Enaerai who now serves as healer in the knight fortress. Irionne has typically been played as a seeming senile and doddering old water scholar with occasional moments of clarity and wisdom.

When Enaerai does favor a promising knight with interaction, it is through Enaerai's immortal room (1261: A White Plain), where Enaerai appears in vision-like fashion to the knight through the tri-stone upon the hillside. In even rarer cases Enaerai comes through the tri-stone to interact with a mortal. However, in Enaerai's concept of balance, immortal interaction should be limited less it exert undue influence, and so as painful as it is, Knights are given free reign to run the order (unless they really muck things up, in which case they may be disbanded for a time, as happened in the summer of 2002).

Origins: The knights began some two years after Avendar opened, as a player-led group coordinated by me (Dovolente). I had been brainstorming ideas about a militant order dedicated to upholding balance, and another player (Stimmy) had developed the idea of Enaerai, a balance deity, and we decided to collaborate and invite other players to join us.

The initial group of knights was led by my character Tessolos, and met in the arien way inn. There were eleven or twelve players involved after a few weeks, and the concept impressed Jolinn enough that he kindly added a temple of Enaerai and a knight compound to Earendam.

The first group of knights eventually died out, but an occasional player or two would take up the role.

When I re-immed in the fall of 01, I chose to take Enaerai as my immortal role, and made the knights a more formalized part of the game. The knights now form something between a band of Enaerai followers and a House (they have they various house features in the code, aside from a vault for stones of power, so the various if house checks, house tell, and note to knight work for knights, though technically they aren't a house). -Dov

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