Order of Kiem

**Order of Kiem**, or the **Kiem Knights**, as everyone call them, are a knightly order formed by a co-founder of the Council of Magic, Belai Kiem. They are sworn to the Council, and serve as their personal fighting force.

## Kiem Knights

### Goals

Serving the Council of Magic, and protecting it´s worlds.

## **Background:**

Order of Kiem is an old and heroic knightly order formed by Belai Kiem, elvish knight and mage. Back then, it was simply known as "Belai’s Order". It started out as a ragtag group of badly equipped militiamen, but after Belai trained them up, they were worthy of being called knight.

They and Belai helped out Nathan Terraglyth in his quest of imprisoning elder demon Drogtraz and his minions. With Belai in the front, they fought with the demon´s horde, while Terraglyth and his group fought Drogtraz himself, eventually succeeding and sealing the unholy fiend.

After the battle, a lot of commoners wanted to join them, and Order who suffered large losses welcomed them with open arms.

When Belai came and reorganised the order into this day’s Order of Kiem, her as their first Grandmaster swore to defend all of Council and worlds under their protection.

## **Gear, Weapons and Equipment:**

### **Belai’s Order:**

Order’s first weapons were mainly farming tools, blunt weapons and an occasional sword. They were clad in leather and rags, with even rare chainmails. They were poorly equipped, but they had determination and faith on their side.

### **Order of Kiem:**

Today’s Order has much better weapons and armor, both in close combat and for ranged fight.

**Order Sword:** Standard melee weapon issued to all members of the order. They are finely crafted hand-and-half swords enchanted with enhanced durability and sharpness.

**Peacekeeper Pattern Armor:** Standard armor given to all members of the order. It consists of two parts: black under-suit and metal parts of the armour. It consists of helmet, chest plate, shoulder plates, crotch-plate, gauntlets, metal boots and shinguards. Helmet is equiped by night vision enchantment. It is enchanted with very powerful durability spells. The only weak points are gaps between shoulders and torso, back of the knees and neck.

**Order Assault Rifle:** First gun ever created by the Council, and given to the Order. It makes loud noise when firing.

**Abjurator Shield:** When inactive, it resembles a metal bulge strapped to the Knight´s forearm. However, when it is used, it unfolds into a large and tall shield made out of blue energy.

**Magical Blood (Biological Lock):** Gained from the serum that every new Knight is given. It allows the Order Knights to channel mana into the blades of their swords. Like this, things like coating the blade in fire are feasible even for magicless.

## **Order Ranks:**

**Grandmaster of Order of Kiem:** Position first held by Lady Belai Kiem, whose name the order bears. They lead the entire Order. They are called ’my lord’ or ’lady’ by lower ranking knights.

**Lieutenant:** Second in command of Grandmaster, they are leading the branch quarters on other worlds of the universe.

**Order Knight:** Full knights of the Order. Can take on Squires as their apprentices. It often happens, that the Order Knight has two to three squires. Divided into freshmen and veterans.

**Squire:** Initiate of the Order. They come from all origins and positions, but that doesn’t mean anything, since when you join the Order, you throw away your past life.

From the last census, there is around 10,000 known Order Knights in active service.

## **Tenets of the Order:**

1. You shall defend the Council and its worlds.

2. You shan’t leave your post without a direct order from your superior officer.

3. You shall keep order in your chosen world.

4. You shan’t do anything that would dishonor the Order or the Council.

5. You shall obey the Council’s orders, what ever they are.

## **Trivia:**

•They were created, because the Council needed means to defend themselves and protect their worlds.