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Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:17 am Need help for my campaign

Heya Folks,

Sorry to post so much (and I mean that), but I need your help. I was going over the campaign setting with a friend and he was reading about protectors of Oerth. Passing the Knights of the Hart and such, he was intrigued with the Knights of Medegia. This order is known to be....bought at a price (?) Problem is, I can't find any other reference to them in the LGG.

He hoped to play a fighter who aspired to become a knight as his father, but reforge the knightly order into something noble and on par with other reknown orders. If there is no other information about this group, then I'll just wing it Smile

I was hoping you folks might be able to giude me in the right direction. After this, I will be quiet for a while as I have my work cut out for me Wink

I miss the Wild Caost,
DwarffromNyrond

Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:35 pm The obscure Knights of Medegia

In answer to your inquiry,

One reference I found on the Knights of Medegia comes from the 1983 Guide to the World of Greyhawk. It is only a passing reference in the Appendix describing orders of knighthood.

"...for example, the Knight Protectors of the Great Kingdom are exceedingly formidable, while those of Medegia are looked upon with near contempt, as it is well known that the title is offered for sale."

If your player wants to reforge this order into something worthy of respect, he would definitely have his work cut out for him. He would have to overcome the stigma that his father just bought the title (perhaps he was one of a few who actually earned the title, back in a time before it was available for sale). In addition, after the Greyhawk Wars, Medegia itself was razed to nearly nothing, making reforging a knightly order based there rather difficult (perhaps basing a new incarnation of the order in Rel Astra, the Dullstrand, or Sunndi).

Another order that may be useful in the Great Kingdom area are the Knights of Sun and Moon, based in Luvern in the North Province. This order is a group of Pholtean survivors of Ivid's purges, eking out a humble existance. This group may have potential as well. It is detailed sketchily in Ivid the Undying.

O-D