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[[Image:Dragonspine Knights circle.jpg|400px]]
 
 
Meeting of the [[Knight's Circle]] of the [[Kingdom]] of [[Dragonspine]].
 
 
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'''Listed in the order of their founding.'''
 
*[[Burning Lands]]
 
*[[Emerald Hills]]
 
*[[Celestial Kingdom]]
 
*[[Golden Plains]]
 
*[[Iron Mountains]]
 
*[[Goldenvale]]
 
*[[Dragonspine]]
 
*[[Wetlands]]
 
*[[Neverwinter]]
 
*[[Blackspire]]
 
*[[Rising Winds]]
 
*[[Crystal Groves]]
 
*[[Desert Winds]]
 
*[[Freeholds]]
 
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Find here the famous or the infamous.
 
 
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*[[G-L]]
 
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''By Michele Ellington [[Tawnee Darkfalcon]]''
 
 
This one is a history lesson on the award of the Lion and Warrior.
 
 
How ironic these statements are! I feel pressed to offer a little
 
history lesson. When we first started the club, the only order
 
offered for fighting was the [[Order of the Lion]]. At that time, [[knights]]
 
had a very definite code of conduct, which was expected of them. Not
 
everyone in the club wanted to be a knight. The [[Corsairs]] and a few
 
others recognized and freely acknowledged that this code of conduct
 
was not for them, and did not even solicit Orders of the Lion.
 
However, it quickly became clear that some of these "mavericks" were
 
some of our best fighters. It was clearly unfair that there was no
 
way to make public note of their skills. So we invented the [[Order of the Warrior]]. It was intended that a fighter who earned ten Orders of
 
the Warrior would become a [[Warlord]]. A Warlord was to be the
 
equivalent of the Knight, but not bound by the code of conduct
 
expected of the knights. When [[tournaments]] were conducted, the
 
fighters were watched for both skill and conduct, and were awarded
 
Warriors or Lions as was deemed appropriate by the [[Monarch]]. At this
 
time, there was only one form of [[Knighthood]]. [[Roses]] attributed to
 
titles of [[nobility]], and [[Dragons]] were simply prestige [[awards]]. Time
 
passed. Some confusion evolved about the intended difference between
 
Warriors and Lions. An odd sort of dichotomy arose, wherein Lions
 
were almost impossible to earn, yet Warlord was the club's most
 
coveted title. In my opinion, this was the result of the fact that
 
most of the really skilled fighters were the "maverick" types, and
 
the Monarchs all but forgot the existence of Lions and what they
 
meant. Warlord was a separate title from Knighthood, but was no
 
longer regarded as its effective yin/yang opposite. Warlords won
 
[[Crown Tourneys]] and were also knighted. The intent of the creation of
 
the Warrior as an Order separate from the Lion fell away. The focus
 
became wholly skill based, with no real evaluation of attitude
 
included. Monarchs came and went.
 
 
After a couple of years, the Monarch decided that Knighthood should
 
be broken into four belts: [[Sword]], [[Serpent]], [[Flame]], and [[Crown]]. To that
 
end, the Orders were all evaluated. The Order hardest hit was Lion.
 
The Monarch making the changes added Warriors as one of the Orders
 
contributive to Knighthood of the Sword. Then he broke the Order of
 
the Lion into Lions for combat and Griffins for chivalry. Then the
 
persons holding Lions were subjectively reviewed, and decisions were
 
made about whether they were good enough fighters to hold that number
 
of Lions, or if some of those awards had been given for chivalry more
 
than combat prowess. Some players' Lions were converted to Griffins,
 
and, if I recall correctly, no longer contributed towards Knighthood
 
of the Sword. As combat had always been the focus of the club,
 
deleting combat orders to make them "orders of the nice guy",
 
read "orders of the chump" by the much acclaimed Warlords who weren't
 
expected to play fair, was hardly a compliment. So now you see the
 
irony of your reference to Griffins as a highly sought after and
 
scarcely offered award.
 
 
I am sorry we lost the dichotomy between Warlords and Knights. I
 
think that a lot of the problems we experience today with Knights
 
acting in unsportsman like and un-chivalrous fashions would be
 
alleviated if there were another Prestige Track available to those
 
who aren't truly "knightly stuff". I have mixed emotions about
 
whether the "code of knightly conduct" should be enforceable, for
 
right and wrong are ever subject to interpretation. But there was a
 
time when those who knew themselves to prefer a less "moral" set of
 
expectations were able to earn prestigious titles and awards for
 
their skill alone. With this option available, it was certainly
 
easier to argue that Knights should be expected to meet certain
 
behavioral requirements.
 
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*[[Darrian de Craymore]] : [[Knight of the Crown]] : [[Blackspire]]
 
*[[Flare]] : [[Knight of the Serpent]] : [[Rising Winds]]
 
*[[Hexloc]] : [[Knight of the Flame]] : [[Rising Winds]]
 
*[[Megiddo sel Esdraelon]]:[[Knight of the Flame]] : [[Wetlands]]
 
*[[Grumish Arowyn]]:[[Knight of the Flame]] : [[Rising Winds]]
 
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