Paragon
Paragons or Class Masterhood is an award given to a player for consistently being an excellent example of their class in full-class battlegames.
In Amtgard
The title of Master is generally awarded based on the discretion of the Monarch for service to the club or also awarded for six months service as Champion of a Duchy, Prime Minster of a Barony, or Regent of a Shire but the particulars depend on one's kingdom corpora.
Class Masterhoods are given for the obvious reason, excellence in the named class. For instance, Paragon Archer would be given for excellence in playing of the Archer class. Every class has one of these and in most corporas to achieve this award, something like this must happen; You behave excellently in class 'X', the Guildmaster of the Class recommends you to the Monarch for your masterhood, then jointly the Monarch and the Prime Minister decide if you are worthy or not. To some people these don't mean anything, to others they are the coolest thing ever, it's all about perspective. After the adoption of the V8 RoP, all new class masterhoods are named "Paragon" in order to alleviate confusion between class masterhood and Order Masterhood.
Class Masterhood
Examples of Paragon include:
- Paragon Anti-Paladin
- Paragon Archer
- Paragon Assassin
- Paragon Barbarian
- Paragon Bard
- Paragon Color
- Paragon Druid
- Paragon Healer
- Paragon Monk
- Paragon Monster
- Paragon Paladin
- Paragon Peasant
- Paragon Scout
- Paragon Warrior
- Paragon Wizard
- Paragon Reeve is known as Walker in the Middle
Alt-class Masterhood
A Masterhood Achieved in a non-standard classes
Corpora Example
An example from the Burning Lands Corpora:
- 4.21 As per the current Award Standardization.
- 4.22 Denotes excellence in contributions to the group in the area listed (see explanations of the orders themselves).
- 4.23 Specific types of Masterhood:
- 4.231 Dragon- Per the current Award Standardization.
- 4.2311 Hydra- 10 orders of the Hydra.
- 4.232 Garber- Per the current Award Standardization.
- 4.233 Lion- Per the current Award Standardization.
- 4.234 Owl- Per the current Award Standardization.
- 4.235 Reeve- 12 weeks experience as a reeve.
- 4.236 Rose- Per the current Award Standardization.
- 4.237 Smith- Per the current Award Standardization.
- 4.238 Warrior (designated title: Warlord)- Per the current Award Standardization.
- 4.239 The Monarch may create other titles and forms of Masterhood that do not conflict/compete with the existing ladder awards.