Caversivan Knight

This article covers the life of a **Caversivan knight**. Unlike real life knights, they all have feats of jousting, chivalry and slaying monsters (mainly dragons).

## Armor

With knight armor (chainmail and plate armor sets) made from far more superior metals (also made from ores that are found nowhere on Earth), they are completely impenetrable to arrows, but not completely for other attacks. But at least their armors are slightly lighter enough to make them become faster, more agile and more energetic.

## Chivalry

Chivalry is more of something than it can be found in a Nicholas Sparks novel (in other words, romantic) when it comes to love since it does have an updated chivalry code. The newly-updated chivalry code goes like this:

* Live for honor
* Protect the weak
* Respect women, children and elderlies

And these prohibitions also include:

* Beating priests
* Stealing cows
* Hurting women, children and elderlies
* Pyromania
* Robbing
* Kidnapping
* Killing
* Harming the innocent

## Daily Morning Masses

In Caversiva, there are a lot of options for other religions, so knights in all of Caversiva have a religion of choice, yet like most Earth knights, most of them are Catholic. Everyone from emperors and empresses to the lowly peasants and serfs are expected to take part in their religious duties, be it yearly or daily. Knights are certainly included in this, and they are known to start to start their days with a morning mass as their local church.

They can also have the most important meal of all days, breakfast, right before or after their daily morning masses.

## Drinking

Thanks to unlimited access to clean water (despite not having supermarkets due to the loss of technology), Caversivans would drink non-alcoholic drinks, mainly drinking water. Knights too won't have to drink like frat boys so that they won't have to do some worse behavior. Whenever they drank, the basics of beer pong and flip cup are saved by the autochthons so that knights would keep them busy while preventing rowdy behavior at the same time.

There are laws that alcohol would be drunk responsibly to avoid alcoholism.

## Fashion

Laws placing restrictions on what people could wear (sumptuary law) are re-imposed, yet are just loose than ever. Ordinary people are free to spend a lot on their fashion, as long as they would be careful not to spend too much so they would save their money for what they needed (food, rent and other essentials). Knights would wear elaborate medieval clothing with nicer materials (and for censorship, codpieces are banned, and in their place, loose modern underwear are worn underneath their pants).

## Knighthood Age

Thanks to modern medicine and Caversivan native medicine, their life expectancies grew even further. People can thankfully decide on what their life's purpose would be while taking some time, because most people can live up to about the averagely ripe age of 150. However, knight training ages are all the same, but at least not mandatory (as it's only to be done by choice).

Training to be a knight could start as early as either five or seven years old. So that could mean they spend some years of their lives training, depending on their grades. During those years, they work at being strong and impressive warriors. These years are spent on horseback, learning archery, and mastering the sword until they're proficient. They could be ready to achieve knighthood between the ages of 15 and 24.

At this time, they would go through a dubbing ceremony, where they would pledge their loyalty to a particular lord or lady, plus that can come with an afterparty, and knights can have notebooks that would write their lords' or ladies' names with hearts drawn next to it.

## Meals

Knights can take various fad diets (such as keto, paleo and/or Atkins) for granted. Even then, meatless Mondays happen in all of Caversiva. Caversivans also have fruits and vegetables that're taken for granted since Caversiva-native ones are the primary ingredients in most meals. Most meals consisted of Caversiva-native fruits and vegetables, meat and bread, and they sometimes add fruits and vegetables introduced from their pre-Drastian invasion native worlds in which they are saved by the autochthons.

If it wasn't good enough, then they knew that vegetables are more good for their health rather than believing that they're poisonous. They wouldn't allow to eat poisonous mushrooms or poison ivies since the slave races' scientific database is safe from the Drastians. Green salads (as long they're washed with clean water) and raw fruits are loved by so many people since they also knew that they're good for their health and not to cause them to become sick.

The only downside is that meat from non-Caversivan native animals aren't cheap (as there's a big reason why veganism and/or vegetarianism is fairly common in Caversiva, and is also due to the fact that factory farming is linked with animal cruelty and drug resistance). That's why the lowest on the economic scale would eat pork, plant-based meat and/or meat from Caversivan native animals (which those taste better, healthier and sweeter than their non-Caversivan counterparts).

However, since knights hold an elevated social status, they also have access to higher quality food than the average serf or peasant would do. Beef and mutton were often served to them along with cheese, salads and raw fruits. Since food needed to be kept safe to eat, a lot of it is pickled, has been preserved with salt and/or are kept inside refrigerators and/or cold storages.

## Minstrels

Because there was no more television due to the loss of technology (thanks to the Drastians' unsuccessful attempts to completely decimate all enslaved races' cultural and scientific databases), knights are once again spent communally as knights and nobles found ways to entertain themselves (other than arcade gaming, toys, board games and usage of their imagination) being minstrels, servants who employ as castle or court musicians.

Thanks to advanced medicine, knights are lucky to be regaled by bards, as they're treated to ballads or long poems based on myths or legends.

## Service

Unlike Earthican knights, Caversivan knights are a public military. They are both national militaries and nobility bodyguards all at the same time. Therefore, they're expected to fight for and carry out the orders of whomever they swore an oath to.

## Sleeps

Knights now can get a good night sleep by Earthican standards, thanks to fairer work shifts. There are also nocturnal knights that can keep watch through the night as long as they have good sleeping standards. Most knights can also sleep for the whole night.

## Tournaments

Knights have tournaments that are more safer and more exciting than their Earth counterparts, and all have an Olympic Games/World Cup treatment with opening, medal/trophy and closing ceremonies, and even representing nations, plus they have those same melees (mock battles) and jousting matches. They also have a state fair treatment with rides and booths celebrating this event.

Not to mention, tournaments are open for men and women of nobility, and non-nobility members who were either strong or brave enough.