A pursuit that others have recognized, according you honor because of it, honoring you enough to increase your fame both in their own hearts and in the estimation of others. Knights today face a battle no different from their historical counterparts. They seek the right, the higher right that we all recognize and believe that we have, seeking to gain honor within their own actions as well as to defend what they believe in both in deed and in word. As in history, none of these groups, let alone the nobles within them, will attain the ideal that drives them. Bitter divisions sometimes rend the best companies of knights, quietly ushering them further from the basic ideals that empower them, starting them on the journey to vainglory that defeats humility, overcomes charity, makes a mockery of courtesy, and in short blackens the heart against chivalry.
Today there are many paths to knighthood.
But these are all external, not worth very much unless the spark of knighthood is ignited within you. It is the spark of nobility that has been recognized since the earliest age within certain men and women of character and spirit.