✠ FROM A SQUIRE TO A HOLY SIR ✠ | Holy Sir Philip Hughes de Rosius

[Franczhiz 4053]

✠ FROM A SQUIRE TO A HOLY SIR ✠

 

[!] THE COAT OF ARMS OF HOLY SIR PHILIP HUGHES DE ROSIUS [!]

 

This is my story on how I got from being a squire, to a Holy Sir; my struggles in my training and how I succeeded in my final quest. The story of how a eighteen year old boy became a Holy Sir in the Most Holy and Supreme Order of Exalted Owyn.
 

✠ THE SQUIRE DAYS ✠

 

I, Philip Hughes de Rosius; remember it as if it was yesterday. I sent my letter to the Holy Mother Church to become a Squire to the Most Supreme and Holy Order of Exalted Owyn. It was during the Social Season that I got to hear of me being accepted into the Order; and I was quite surprised. I went to Dobrov for my first Squire training; a duel it was - while having Holy Sir August Jazloviecki as my trainer and Knight during a duel against a fellow Squire; I was the victorious one.

 

It took up to five years of training to get to my final-quest; I obtained four of the five rings that were necessary to do so; which were Swordsmanship, Horsemanship, Blacksmith, and Education on the Scrolls. But first I had to write a thesis as tasked by Holy Sir August Jazloviecki. The years were long; but GOD gave me my strength to hold on to the tasks that had to be done. The motivation for my final quest was GOD, my wife Elaine and my newborn daughter Genevieve de Rosius; I simply could not allow it to let them down if I had failed on my final quest. Before my final quest; I had spent a few days of training with Holy Sir August in preparation of my final quest.

 

 

[!]A painting of a Harpy that was flying towards Holy Sir Philip while he was on his horse. [!]

 

And so I arrived with Holy Sir August in the lands where a strange creature had been seen. I was riding off on my own as Holy Sir August told me to discover what this creature was; and so I did. A peasant came to me  and told me that there was a monster that had killed his wife; and so I followed the peasant into the mountains and we discovered a strange creature. It was a creature with the head and wings of a bird but the claws of a beast; I charged at it and started to fight against this monstrous being; and so the harpy clawed my right arm and right leg, but I did not give up.

 

I swung my blade at the harpy it’s body and head, until it would finally give up. And so it did; The harpy fell down and a large screech would have been heard from the mountains. The harpy was suffering from utter pain, and I decapitated it; showing it a quick mercy. I bound the head to my horse to drag it to the location where I had to show it as proof of my kill; and so I did. Then, the final quest was concluded and I had to wait for me to be knighted by His Holiness High Pontiff Everard VI. 

 

✠ THE KNIGHTING ✠

 

 

As word got to the High Pontiff; a time and date for the knighting was made. A few of House de Rosius and my distant relatives came to attend. As I was nervously waiting for the High Pontiff to arrive; I started to do a prayer for  him and me family to remain as faithful as they are now. Then His Holiness had arrived; and so he told me to kneel to knight me.

 

His Holiness then told me to recite the oath; and so I did: 

 

“I vow to never falter, to obey and guard the laws of GOD, who is the one true Creator.

 

I vow to be the sword and shield of the Church of the Canon and her faithful, to fight for them when they cannot protect themselves.

 

I vow to resist the temptations of Iblees and strike down those who have fallen under his dark rule.”

 

When I had recited it, His Holiness High Pontiff Everard VI told me; 

 

“Then rise, Philip, and join your brothers as Holy Sir Philip the Kind, and be as loving to all as our God is. Vy are an Equestor of the Supreme Order of Exalted Owyn and the Church of Canon, sworn to protect the people of the Canonist faith. Vy shall be fair and just, defending the innocent no matter their rank: Beggar and bishop alike.”

 

And so I became a Holy Sir and Equestor of the Church, it was GOD and my faith that has inspired me to reach such. For it is GOD that we defend for and for GOD who we fight. This was my story; on my journey from a Squire to a Holy Sir and Equestor of GOD and the Church.

 

Signed,

Holy Sir Philip Hughes “The Kind” de Rosius

 

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