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Right. This would be much easier to give context to.
A knightly order dedicated to protecting peasants (Let's say, the Knights Proletaria, or Defenders of the Weak.) against Bandits/Slavers would be much more believable and interesting than just being 'good'.
Unfortunately, such knights would be poor, and dirt poor at that. (There's no money in saving peasants, only in robbing them.) This is where they would need an altruistic patron to support them, or else they wouldn't be able to afford any of this white armor we're talking about, and I can't think of any rich man paying knights to protect the peasants he probably robbed or taxed to get rich in the first place. The types of Orders that would arise wouldn't be much different from the manhunters who are already in the game. (Poorer, actually, since they presumably aren't on someone's payroll.)
We'd really need to develop a religious or philosophical framework to justify any independent military orders. This is why dark knights bother me so.
A knightly order dedicated to protecting peasants (Let's say, the Knights Proletaria, or Defenders of the Weak.) against Bandits/Slavers would be much more believable and interesting than just being 'good'.
Unfortunately, such knights would be poor, and dirt poor at that. (There's no money in saving peasants, only in robbing them.) This is where they would need an altruistic patron to support them, or else they wouldn't be able to afford any of this white armor we're talking about, and I can't think of any rich man paying knights to protect the peasants he probably robbed or taxed to get rich in the first place. The types of Orders that would arise wouldn't be much different from the manhunters who are already in the game. (Poorer, actually, since they presumably aren't on someone's payroll.)
We'd really need to develop a religious or philosophical framework to justify any independent military orders. This is why dark knights bother me so.