#I have a whole thing on HK I've been saying for ages I would polish
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y'know what I gotta leave a more detailed note for myself or I WILL forget and I like this idea so —
the Horned Knight obviously is the Lord of the Forest with a court of dryads [including his wife, who is a dryad] and human servants who are ensorcelled with moss + flowers growing over theirs mouths + eyes. will dive into that at some point. but he is a knight so I have a thought of there being what I will call the Order of Yore. this is a knightly order, which he leads, consisting of spirits who — well I'm gonna steal a phrase from Solas: "reenact the bloody past in ancient wars both famous and forgotten." I feel we can assume that dryads are spirits inhabiting trees, and so I will say the Order of Yore [aka the yorder as I like to call them] consists of spirits inhabiting animals but in a way that anthropomorphizes them. like, you don't just have a possessed fox who can talk. you have a possessed fox who can talk, walk on two legs, wield a weapon, and a wear a jaunty feather cap. it's a whole thing. anyway, these knights are drawn to great deeds of valor, chivalry, honor, battle, that sort of thing. they can often be found reenacting such deeds that have occurred in the past. in an instance where they come upon a deed that is currently happening / has happened recently, they will reward it. however, if they come upon someone acting dishonorably, cowardly, against their code of chivalry — well naturally they punish them. and it's known they've been punished. thus it's no surprise folktales paint the yorder as an ill omen. it's said if you come upon them, you will soon meet your death and it will be a grisly one. in fact, some say that if you come upon them they will kill you themselves and drag away your soul to serve as game in their hunts for all eternity. tales of their rewards in recognition of noble deeds are rarer owing to the rarity of noble deeds themselves.
#OOC / HOLLY.#note to self#I have a whole thing on HK I've been saying for ages I would polish#ever since I started writing Amis basically#the basic gist is that he's not just some spirit#rather he IS the Tirashan and in the bitheistic beliefs of northwestern Orlais he is a face of the gods#which is to say he is a god#that's why the Shame summoned and bound him: an attempt to gain control over the very land itself#but whatever the Shame did did not go as planned and being bound like that just. doesn't work for a being like HK#so it kinda screwed with his memory and sense of identity#he is an amnesiac in a sense. he has this kind of instinct to do certain things but he doesn't really REMEMBER who or what he is#like acting as the Lord of the Forest because although he doesn't remember it he IS the forest#and having this fixation on duality with the Marquis/e because duality is his very nature#he is meant to be one end of a duality and another deity is the other end#in his case the other would be the spirit of Serault / the parts that aren't the Tirashan#aka the roads and fields much like he calls the Marquis/e the Lord of Roads and Fields#this also manifests in him taking a wife. he is meant to have an 'other half'#although he doesn't really remember that it's part of his nature and seeks to be fulfilled somehow
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