Additionally, there is a 10% chance that a chapter will exist in Marleons. Joining the Order of the Lion requires 10 honor and 500 renown, as well as neutral or positive relations with the order. They are dangerous enemies when working together with the Lion Knights. They don surcoats, and make do as decent footmen, armed with either Military Cleavers or Morningstars. While they have not been granted the privilege of riding on horses, they have been given solid armor sets and weaponry. Sons of the Lion Knights are trained and march alongside the Knights themselves in patrols or certain lord's armies as Squires.
Undergoing rigorous training and maintaining a hearty diet of ale and red meat before being initiated into the order, the well-built and experienced Knights of the Lion can easily overpower other knights, even the extremely well-trained Knights of the Dawn, which many Pendorians deem as effective killing machines.
They also make excellent siege troops, able to attack and defend a walled center almost effortlessly.
On foot, they make excellent heavy infantry and the punch they deliver with their weapons are not to be underestimated, rivaling the skill of the legendary Empire Immortals. They fare extremely well in their role as heavy cavalry thanks to their breastplate and can easily trample infantry and archers. The royal knights of Sarleon are top tier cavalry one can employ in the realm of Pendor. All texts and references to the reasons and history surrounding this event and what happened to the order since 298 were destroyed by the order of the the new monarch, himself now a prominent member of the Knighthood Order.Īcting as the bodyguard for King Ulric l, now the monarch of the Sarleon Kingdom, they fight with heavy lances, morningstars and Silver Great Claymores, as well as shield of their order. In the 346th year after the founding of Pendor, the Order was restored by the order of King Ulric I of Sarleon. In the 298th year after the founding of Pendor, the Order was outlawed. After the untimely deaths of the royal family in 198, the order was instrumental, along with the Order of the Griffon, in establishing and maintaining order in the realm and preventing an all out war between rival factions contending for the throne of Pendor.Īfter the secession of the Northern Lords, and the war with the Greater Baccus Empire, the order backed and supported Duke Alfred of Sarleon in assuming the throne and declaring himself the King of Sarleon. The charter of the order is strict in its chivalrous by-laws, and is the oldest knighthood order that still has members in Pendor. The Order of the Lion is one of the largest and most renowned orders of Knights in the land, established in the 82nd year after the founding of Pendor by Sir Roderick the Red.
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