Transference Ceremony

10th of Quadros, 84 DI
REMBERING THAT DAY
"It was a chilly fall evening as my family and some of our neighbors gathered around my father and me as we stood underneath a tree whose leaves were already fully changed. This was to be a day and a moment that I would never forget, one I had longed for for so many years. It was finally here. Finally I would be able to cliam the role of knighthood and please my father. My mother wasn't all to pleased at the thought of me joining the continental army, but she was relieved that her husband, my father, would be able to retire and rest after his hard life of defending and protecting the continent.
It was but only a few days prior to that day that I had been knighted and immediately my father began planning a large feast for my Transference Ceremony. I remember him telling me about the turmoil his father, who was not a kinght, endured after he got knighted since there wouldn't be a ceremonial passing of the torch.
I remember it, the exact moment he unsheathed his glorious sword, it was weathered and had seen much use in battle but yet it glimmered so brightly in the sun as he knelt down on his knee and presented it to me. I slowly reached out my hand and grasped its handle. My father was always stoic and never expressed much emotion, but he was weeping. As I took that sword from him, he looked up at me but tried to then look away and hide his tears; I am sure that it was a mixture of pride for me but expectant loneliness now that he was retired from knighthood.
I hope to one day give my son the honor of this ceremony, but he does not at the moment seem to be prone towards the gallantry of knighthood, and he might never be. Either way I know he will make me proud one day."
-Journal entry of Sir Yo'von Marius

Execution

Friends and family will gather around to observe as a father who was previously a knight presents a sword to his son who has recently been knighted. The sword is usually the sword that the father used unless it was lost or broken; in which case, the father will buy a good-quality sword or even have one specail made.
This ritual signifies the father passing off the role of knighthood to his son. The father retires from knigthood following the ceremony and only enters combat when absolutely necessary.

Components and tools

Sword previously weilded by the father unless not viable.

Participants

Father who was previously a knight. Son who was recently knighted.

Observance

The ceremony usually occurs a few days/weeks after the knighting of the son.