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Path of Honorable Accord
Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 07:59 AM (262 Views)
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Nickname: Knights

Virtues: Conscience and Self-Control

Ethics of the Path

These vampires choose honor as their guiding hand. By focusing on firm rules and personal boundaries, the Knights keep the rage of the Beast at bay. Accepting a duty and fulfilling its obligations then provides the Knights with goals to achieve. Bound by their codes of honor, these vampires uphold causes with the utmost devotion, even to the ends of their own unlives.

They keep their word and honor their agreements. Believing the first inroads to the Beast are through lies, both to one’s self and to others. The next are through excusing one’s own or other Caintie’s lapses. If one neither lies nor lapses, then the Beast cannot gain foothold. By extension, then, always repay your debts – this is a tenet central to the Code. So long as debt or gratitude weighs on one’s soul, there is an opening for the Beast to exploit. The ideal knight’s mind and heart are on the Code and only the Code, not on matter owed to another Cainite. Debt’s must always be repaid and in full. Duty comes before personal matters. Duty is inflexible, immutable; personal matters are subject to whim, to rationalization and thus to the beast.

Never show cowardice. Overcome your fears. Ultimately, best intentions are useless if they cannot be acted upon. In some ways, fear is a knight’s worst foe, for it is both a rationalization not to accomplish something and a blinding emotion. Fear is the currency of the Beast. It must be rejected at all costs. Knights gladly suffer Final Death before showing cowardice or betraying their allies.

Treat fairly and equitably those of station. As one does not lie to himself or fellow knights, so he does not lie to or exploit other noble Cainties. Those who have taken pains to quell their own beasts and to set examples for the Dammed are to be respected and honored, even if they don’t (yet) follow the Code. Support your comrades-at-arms in all things, except where they counsel treachery. Only by being an example to all can one save others from their own weakness. Be a paragon to packmates, acting as a righteous exemplar and if necessary, a punishing scourge. Know that the dishonorable are beneath your contempt; those who are clearly doomed, who wallow in their own shame and weakness, are to be avoided, placed out of sight, mind and soul. Such creatures can corrupt all around them like a pestilence.

The Knight sees humans as a resource, just as another warrior might see a fine warhorse as admirable but far from an equitable associate. They see humans as little more than chattel or food, and undeserving of the considerations of honor that are bestowed upon other vampires.

A follower of the Path of Honorable Accord must always keep honor foremost in her mind. They cannot act rashly or in haste; she must always be aware of the nature and consequences of her actions. Knights are by turns cold and aloof, yet honorable and trustworthy. They never go back on their word and always honor their agreements. Many of this Path's followers display a grim and taciturn image, but the Knights are capable of humor and jovialty — they simply find that duty outweighs personal gratification. The devout student of this Path must hold onto courage and discipline at all times while they seek to dispense justice and fairness. The true Knight fights and dies, for their cause. They do not shirk on their duty or flee from battle. Still, they are far from compassionate or humane.

Path of Honorable Accord
ScoreMoral Guideline
10Failing to uphold all the precepts of your group.
9Failing to show hospitality to your allies.
8Associating with the dishonorable. You are supposed to set a positive example.
7Failing to participate in your group's rites.
6Disobeying your leader.
5Failing to protect your allies.
4Placing personal concerns over duty.
3Showing cowardice.
2Killing without reason.
1Breaking your word or oath; failing to honor an agreement.

- Featherstone & Roofie
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