The Order

Roles:

 * Vassals:
 * "Our Vassal friends and their contemporary fiefdoms are the Order’s lower limbs. Without them, we would not have walked through fifteen centuries of this war, would not have advanced from the Middle Ages to modernity."
 * Sworn to the code
 * Families who pledged themselves years/decades ago
 * Know about aether ; supply resources
 * Pledge to serve the original 13 Legendborn bloodlines
 * Pages
 * " Pages are the left hand: once Oathed, you will be granted Sight in order to hold the shield while we fight in the shadows. "
 * Traditionally come from Vassal families that have pledged themselves decades ago or longer
 * Pages and their families get privileges Vassal families do not
 * Lieges
 * Viceroys
 * Mage Seneschals
 * Regents:
 * assign cases to Merlins.
 * "The Regents are the spine, directing our eyes and energies to the urgent matters at hand.”
 * Have functional control but are Oathbound to comply to Legendborn demands. Nick notes that they hold trials and have the capacity to disappear people.
 * Merlins: "Merlins are the right hand, the sword and fists of the Order." They smell like fish and cheese
 * Scions:
 * Must be 16-22
 * "The Legendborn Scions and Squires are the heart.The holy text of their Lines has fueled our mission from the beginning."
 * Squires: "The Legendborn Scions and Squires are the heart.The holy text of their Lines has fueled our mission from the beginning."

Oath of Fealty
“I, {name}, offer my service to the Order in the name of our king. I swear to be the shield of the {Chapter} the eyes and ears of its territory. I swear to aid in its battles and arm its warriors. I swear to guard its secrets and secure all that I see and hear henceforth.”


 * "If the Oath finds you worthy, you will officially become a member of the Southern Chapter and be granted Sight, the ability to see aether. If you are not worthy, you will be mesmered and cast out."
 * "Oaths are living bonds sealed by speech.Their words pull aether from the air so that the vow becomes a part of you. The Oath of Fealty will know if and when you intend to break it, but it works like mesmer,"

Camlann

 * “‘When thirteen Scions have Awakened and claimed Squires, the Scion of Arthur will lead the Round Table against the demon plague in a deadly battle.’This war is called Camlann, so named because, in legend, Camlann is where many of the final knights were killed. Camlann is the battlefield where Arthur fell. Camlann is where the original Round Table was broken—forever. If a fully Awakened Arthur is struck down by Shadowborn blood, the Legendborn Lines will be broken forever too.”

Camlann is treated as the apocalypse of the Order, and rightfully so. If the scion of Arthur awakens, it is Camlann, and death will follow. The last Camlann was the U.S's revolutionary war. At the end of Legendborn, the scion of Arthur is awakened, sparking Camlann. The trigger was threatening certain Scions of the round table, and was triggered in part by Nick's father, and part by the Line of Morgaine and the Shadowborn.