Path of Honorable Accord

The Roads

A Modern Path on the Road of Kings

Nickname: Knights

Basic Beliefs: From a sermon given by Azrael, Salubri antitribu palaidn:

Cultures have two ways to control their miscreant members: guilt and shame. Guilt is based on adherence to a moral code - ideas of salvation and sin, good and evil. Shame is fostered by a breach of ethics - deviation from accepted doctrine, creed or code of behavior. As predators, we have no room for morality - it is a mortal invention. Guilt falls to the Beast like a paper screen to a raging tiger.

Ethics are also an invention, but they are far more efficient in their function. One has only to look at the kine world to see the impossiblity of enforcing morality. The spiral of hypocricy and rationalization, the chaos and madness that reign when morals fail. Ethics fail, too, much of the time, but they sometimes succeed and are clearer and less subject to justification and pervarication than is morality.

When one looks at the supreme ethical codes among mortals - the samurai of japan, the knights of Europe, the tablets of hammurabi and the iron codes of draco - one sees a discipline, a purity, that is not subject ot argument or erosion. Most fail to live up to these codes, but the failure is of the individual, not the code itself.

You have chosen such a cage, but for you it shall be an armor of sturdiest steel. You have gazed into the abyss. You know what lies there. We have dipped our pens into that abyss and written a code as encompassing as the night sky and as strong as black iron.

Is our path a lie? No. Will it last until the stars wink out and the moon spins into the void? perhaps not. Will we hold this code as our truth, as a spine and axis and axon of our existence, for howsoever long as our undeath sustains us? Yes.