Ariakan himself strived against it, but the Law of the Dark Queen cannot be denied: Evil turns upon itself. Rennold’s greatest enemies may very well be his closest advisers. Opponents of the divided Orders wait, hoping that the infighting signifies a rapid descent into dissolution. Seasoned veterans of past wars, such as General Dogah, bide their time and wait for the chance to seek power. Although Neraka’s Lord of the Night promotes the Knighthood as a unified whole, the rise of the faction lords has splintered the group. Rennold’s rivals do not cleave to this idea. Lord Adjudicator Galen Nemedi whispers in his ear that Ariakan’s successors do not hold true to the Vision, so he seeks to instill honor upon the Knighthood once more. Lord Baltasar Rennold sees the “withering of the Lily” as the Knights of Neraka fall further from their moment of glory. Today, the Dark Knights are a house divided. They even took on a new name, the Knights of Neraka, to symbolize their estrangement from their goddess. In the generations since their founding, they have had to adjust to an ever-changing world, one that has seen the loss and return of the gods, new magic, the rise and fall of the Dragon Overlords, and the death of the Queen of Darkness herself.
The Dark Knights bring steel, spirit, and sorcery together in powerful combination.Īs Ariakan foresaw, his knighthood would have to be like the ironwood trees, merging a strong foundation with the ability to move and adapt. The Knights of the Thorn are the intellectual mind of the Dark Knights, whose divination’s augment their conquests. The Knights of the Skull are the spiritual body of the Dark Knights, guiding them through the power of the Vision.
The Knights of the Lily are the physical body of the Knighthood, warriors trained to fight in single combat, whether on foot, on horse, or riding a dragon. The Knights of Takhisis are divided into three orders. He bared his heart to her and, though he had touched upon her own failings, she approved of his vision. What if Evil did not turn upon its own? What if there was a group of dark knights who put the Knighthood before personal gain? These questions haunted Ariakan until his encounter with the Dark Warrior, a fearsome aspect of the goddess Takhisis. By undermining the ability of the forces of Evil to work together, this had proven to be the downfall of Takhisis throughout history, most notably with the dragonarmies during the War of the Lance. Ariakas relied on the Law of the Dark Queen-Evil feeds on itself, gaining strength from the failure of its weaker members. While studying the Knights of Solamnia as their prisoner,he realized his father’s greatest flaw. Born from the vision of Ariakan, the Knights of Takhisis stand in the pages of history as the greatest organized force of Evil to ever walk the face of Krynn.Īfter Ariakan’s time of imprisonment by the Knights of Solamnia, he envisioned a dark knighthood that would draw from the best aspects of the Knights of Solamnia, without falling into the traps of the Solamnics’ failings. Of all the knightly orders of Ansalon, none are as feared as the Dark Knights of Takhisis.
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