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GM Craig

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #45 on: April 11, 2016, 05:54:34 PM »
Well you could. The letter never mentioned your squires either. You could claim him as part of your staff.
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Arne

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #46 on: April 11, 2016, 06:06:36 PM »
Well, then . . .  ;D
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Cedwyn

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #47 on: April 12, 2016, 08:17:31 AM »
What authority or tradition would allow us to take an oath of loyalty from him? An oath swore by his faith/on a relic should suffice.
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GM Craig

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #48 on: April 12, 2016, 09:36:11 AM »
It's whatever you are willing to accept. Oath by what he swears, an oath by something you think important. You could ask for a bond of some sort, as surety against his honour (though that is fairly insulting).
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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #49 on: April 12, 2016, 09:57:47 AM »
We are brother knights sworn to serve by oaths to God, right?
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GM Craig

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #50 on: April 12, 2016, 10:31:50 AM »
His conversation certainly suggests he is Christian, and so should tend to follow Christian ethics to some degree.

His gear suggests he is a knight, though a poor one, but his lack of livery or coat of arms suggests he is a knight errant - a wandering knight, who answers to no lord.

Up to you how much you choose to trust him, but the usual indicators of avenues of redress are absent.
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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #51 on: April 12, 2016, 02:10:09 PM »
So the landless, lord-less, fortune-seeking Northmen mercs are okay because they're written on a letter. That's funny :D
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Arne

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #52 on: April 12, 2016, 02:39:02 PM »
The writers of the letter just realize true talent when they see it.  Super-staaaahs!
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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #53 on: April 13, 2016, 09:00:13 AM »
In the Arthurian era, his sworn word as a Knight would be enough but this pre-Athurian so my inclination is that Cedwyn would not fully trust him without a lord to rebuke Artaigne.
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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #54 on: April 13, 2016, 11:53:27 AM »
A reasonable conclusion. Chivalry doesn't really exist as a concept yet. I mean, it does, but more as an ideal than a daily social expectation.
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Arne

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #55 on: April 13, 2016, 12:57:36 PM »
According to that letter of presentation, are Arne and Valka considered ambassadors?  Or merely mercs in the company of Sir Cedwyn and Sir Rodric?  In short, would Arne be able - upon his own honor -  to take on Artaigne as, say, a bodyguard?  In short, Arne would be vouching for Artaigne's good conduct - and also taking responsibility for it.
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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #56 on: April 13, 2016, 01:04:29 PM »
Sure.
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Arne

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #57 on: April 13, 2016, 01:25:48 PM »
Cool.  I'll wait until Cedwyn and Artaigne have a chance to respond to each other before Arne brings the idea up (if the problem hasn't already been resolved).
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GM Craig

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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #58 on: April 19, 2016, 10:23:15 PM »
Not sure who is waiting for whom.
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Re: Year 487 Summer Campaign
« Reply #59 on: April 20, 2016, 10:39:30 AM »
I'm waiting for Cedwyn.
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