Post by Tami on Aug 5, 2006 19:03:47 GMT -5
PATH OF HONORABLE ACCORD
Nickname: Knights
Hierarchy of Sins
Rating Moral guidelines
10……….....Failing to uphold the precepts of your group
9…………...Failing to show hospitality to your allies
8…………...Associating with the dishonorable
7……………Failing to participate in your group rites
6……………Disobeying a leader
5……………Failing to protect your allies
4……………Placing personal concerns over duty
3……………showing cowardice
2…………….Killing without reason
1…………….Breaking your word or oath; Failing to honor an agreement
Ethics of the Path
• One always keeps his word and honors his agreements. One’s word is one’s personal Code of Milan. The first inroads to the Beast are through lies, both one’s self and to others. The next are through excusing one’s own or other Caintie’s lapses. If one neither lies not lapses, then the Beast cannot gain foothold.
• Never show cowardice; over come fears. Ultimately, best intentions are useless if they cannot be acted upon. In some ways, fear is a knight’s worse foe, for it is both a rationalization not to accomplish something and a blinding emotion. Fear is the currency of the Beast. It must be rejected at all costs.
• Duty comes before personal matters. Duty is inflexible, immutable; personal matters are subject to whim, to rationalization and thus to the beast.
• Treat fairly and equitably with those of station. Conversely, the dishonorable are beneath contempt. As one does not lie to himself or fellow knights, so he does not lie to or exploit other noble Cainties. Those who have taken pains to quell their own beasts and to set examples for the Dammed are to be respected and honored, even if they don’t (yet) follow the Code. Conversely, those who are clearly doomed, who wallow in their own shame and weakness, are to be avoided, placed out of sight, mind and soul. Such creatures can corrupt all around them like a pestilence.
• Always repay debts. The tenet is central to the Code. So long as debt or gratitude weighs on one’s soul, there is an opening for the Beast to exploit. The ideal knight’s mind and heart are on the Code and only the Code, not on matter owed to another Cainite. Debt’s must always be repaid and in full.
• Support Comrades in arms in all things, except when they counsel treachery. Only by being an example to all can one save others from their own weakness. Be a paragon to packmates, acting as a righteous exemplar and if necessary, a punishing scourge.
Virtues: Unique amoung the Paths of Enlightenment, the Path of Honorable Accord espouses Conscience in addition to self-control.
Nickname: Knights
Hierarchy of Sins
Rating Moral guidelines
10……….....Failing to uphold the precepts of your group
9…………...Failing to show hospitality to your allies
8…………...Associating with the dishonorable
7……………Failing to participate in your group rites
6……………Disobeying a leader
5……………Failing to protect your allies
4……………Placing personal concerns over duty
3……………showing cowardice
2…………….Killing without reason
1…………….Breaking your word or oath; Failing to honor an agreement
Ethics of the Path
• One always keeps his word and honors his agreements. One’s word is one’s personal Code of Milan. The first inroads to the Beast are through lies, both one’s self and to others. The next are through excusing one’s own or other Caintie’s lapses. If one neither lies not lapses, then the Beast cannot gain foothold.
• Never show cowardice; over come fears. Ultimately, best intentions are useless if they cannot be acted upon. In some ways, fear is a knight’s worse foe, for it is both a rationalization not to accomplish something and a blinding emotion. Fear is the currency of the Beast. It must be rejected at all costs.
• Duty comes before personal matters. Duty is inflexible, immutable; personal matters are subject to whim, to rationalization and thus to the beast.
• Treat fairly and equitably with those of station. Conversely, the dishonorable are beneath contempt. As one does not lie to himself or fellow knights, so he does not lie to or exploit other noble Cainties. Those who have taken pains to quell their own beasts and to set examples for the Dammed are to be respected and honored, even if they don’t (yet) follow the Code. Conversely, those who are clearly doomed, who wallow in their own shame and weakness, are to be avoided, placed out of sight, mind and soul. Such creatures can corrupt all around them like a pestilence.
• Always repay debts. The tenet is central to the Code. So long as debt or gratitude weighs on one’s soul, there is an opening for the Beast to exploit. The ideal knight’s mind and heart are on the Code and only the Code, not on matter owed to another Cainite. Debt’s must always be repaid and in full.
• Support Comrades in arms in all things, except when they counsel treachery. Only by being an example to all can one save others from their own weakness. Be a paragon to packmates, acting as a righteous exemplar and if necessary, a punishing scourge.
Virtues: Unique amoung the Paths of Enlightenment, the Path of Honorable Accord espouses Conscience in addition to self-control.