By my answer here, I meant squires who completed training as a paladin, are knighted; my mistake. Though looking at it further, human paladins can sometimes be in a middleground between a squire and a knighted paladin. Though maybe that’s just a Blizzard inconsistency
You are right, especially in Warcraft. Though, sometimes as I mentioned above a few inconsistencies crop up. They are always associated with faith, rather than knighthood, but that’s mostly in other media.
it is both a rank in the Alliance military structure and a rank within martial orders such as the “Knights of the Silver Hand” , the “Argent Dawn/Crusade”, “Brotherhood of the Light”, “Scarlet Crusade/Brotherhood/Onslaught” and used within most (maybe Dalaran as an exception) Human kingdoms, usually for those trained in the arts of war and who carry (though not always) a chivalric inspired code of conduct.
They do not appear to be landowners or have feudal obligations as they did in the Early to High Middle Ages.
The truest meaning of a knight is big shoulderpads
Being away for a day and coming back to all these comments has been quite the read-through! Love the enthusiasm and engagement.
To me it appears more like a rank name for military/society status rather than if they own land or not. When I see a Knight in SW, I usually perceive them to be the counterpart to a Paladin. A person with a mastery of arms and skills but not necessarily bound to the Light and its worship. In a way to me they are just very civilized Warriors with manners, a respectful title and the trust of the people.
I will admit I find this one hard to answer, because the different races of wow also have different ideas on what a knight should be. A human knight is already different from a Knight of the Silver Hand, and then you’ve got the Blood Knights on the Horde side.
I don’t see how the European/historical knighthood would work in Azeroth. Because of WoW’s limitations pretty much every human kingdom is a capital and a few towns. There’s barely any lords a knight would serve under.
And the Silver Hand, which are considered Knights, takes in everyone regardless of race. So it’s not tied to nobility anymore, either.
By looking at the lore where the world is much much bigger than the world in game, where exists for example the Vanyst family.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Bolten_Vanyst
Whose land in Elwynn is so large it is described as a realm unto itself.
The last time I saw a proper human knight in WoW that weren’t silver hand were the Knights of the Lion assaulting Domination Point in pandaria. And they all died.
It’s me, I’m a knight.
A Knight is a type of rank / position.
As many depicted, it has a variety of chrome, from the iconic knight flying colours to the Argent / Scarlet / Blood etc Knight.
Mostly it is non relevant and pertinent to the knightly values one may have in mind.
Which is what allows a wide and spanning horizon of characters to be knights, all with their hues and shades in personality, more ‘humane’ and not necessarily always aspiring of the written perfection of litanies and oaths taken for their rank.
But in general a knight -has- to undertake an oath, and have a form of loyalty toward someone, or something.
The ‘oath’ bit is something players oft forget and far too cheaply discard.
A knight is a person on a horse in shiny armor, usually doing something heroic.
I really don’t think the term extends much beyond the most generic fantasy trope you can cook up.
Remember.
Even Dark Knights can have Dark Nights…
HIstorically speaking, a Knight is much like a samurai. They have a lord to obey, they have an honor code and even their own fighting styles schools. But that was for a very short time, like hundred years, and after that a Knight became just a title of recognition by someone deed, like an actor who is worldly known for its art and them is pointed as Knight.
The vision of Knight in WoW is more close to the paladins, persons who take a vow to serve a greater cause. A knight is not directly related to a militar rank, but a Knight, as a noble, does posses an authority in war. It is like a Jedi, they are not in the military ranks, but in clone wars they acted like commanders.
They are, though. Not just one rank, but four of them.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Alliance_Military_Ranks
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