Foundation of the Order

The Order sets its foundation as the 25th Day of the Month of St. Strathor the Unconquered, in the 585th year of the Mandadorian epoch. The master of this congress of knights-palatine was the Venerable Kargal of Kandor, but the Archdeacon Traddock, the Master-General the Order of St. Karant, had advised Kargal, and the guidance manifested in what was soon to happen.

Background

In the aftermath of the Battle of the Red Sun, the exhausted palatine army took refuge at Kastelayr, just north of the Rans River, where the Thousiersian baron and adventurer Thaldemon had encamped with his forces at the ruins there, and were rebuilding it. There the paladins took breadth of all that had happened, and discussed the fate of the matter. Much of their discussion pivoted over whom would be the next War King to continue the fight against Thagdion, but they could not agree, and even the paladins bitterly disputed where their power should lie. The Archdeacon Traddock, for his measure, recently affirmed as Master-General of the Monks of St. Karant, denied that he would support any new War King

The Kargal Oath

At Traddock's recommendation, Kargal chose the site near Manifold where St. Yathamian had fought with the pagans in centuries past, and selected a large broken rock, sundered by the might of Mandador, as the centerpiece of their gathering. They held camp there for two days, and discussed much of what the O

The Diaconate Shield was placed upon the stone at their center, along with the Drathantorian blade