The Order of the Garter

An order of knighthood originating during the Middle Ages of the Precursor civilization and associated with the ruling dynasties of the British monarchy. The order was reestablished by Decker Chamberlain in 942 PCE, beginning an era of European history known as the Heroic Age. Notable members of the Order included Harold Mayfield, Taylor Meddowes, Simon Aimery, and Gareth Hungerford. The ancient motto of the Order, “Hony soyt qui mal pence,” is Anglo-Norman for “Shame on him who thinks ill of it.”

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The initiation rites of the Order were performed in the reconstructed Stone Hall amphitheatre. Simon Aimery's memoirs provide the following account of the initiation ceremony:

The concave orb of the subterranean amphitheatre was lit with hundreds of flaming braziers and the dancing flames cast moving shadows between the clan banners suspended from the high ceiling of the hall. Harold came to the altar bearing the bracers of Brightmoon, the ancestral relic of the Mayfield clan. In the dimness of the hall, the uncanny blue hue of the steel bracers took on the ossified appearance of polished marble and made Harold look more a statue than a man of flesh and blood. The original initiation had been a mysterious and elaborate rite. When he rose with his riband and took his place alongside Lord Chamberlain and the other battle lords, Harold seemed not so much inducted into a brotherhood of warriors but rather stellified into a pantheon of demi-gods.

— Simon Aimery, 6^th Lord Protector of Britannia

The Order of the Garter declined and became defunct after the Mortmare Restoration.

Type

Military, Knightly Order

Alternative Names

Knights of the Garter

Demonym

Garter Knights