Knightly Orders

Knightly Orders are ten regional guilds that offer quests, armour gifts and travel benefits. Choose the region where you spend the most time: the orders share their qualifying skills, rank thresholds and quest pool. You can belong to one knightly order at a time; joining another replaces that membership.

Choose an order

The home region determines where a new member receives free inn rooms. The Order of the Cup, Host of the True Horn and the temples’ knightly branches are separate factions; they are not extra joinable orders.

Joining

Visit an order hall in its home region and ask to join. Membership needs reputation of at least 0, one qualifying skill at 22, and a different qualifying skill at 4. These are permanent skill values; temporary bonuses do not satisfy the test. Orders do not offer skill training, so improve these skills through use or another trainer.

Ranks and armour

Ask the hall’s smith for armour. The smith offers 4–7 randomly selected pieces in the material for your current membership rank; you may take one piece. Taking it spends that rank’s gift. Closing the offer without taking a piece leaves the gift available.

Both qualifying skills must come from the list above. Online, normal promotion stops at rank 7; the rank-8 and rank-9 positions are chapter chairs won through Guild chapters. A chair does not raise the membership rank used for armour gifts and does not grant a house. Offline, promotion can reach rank 9, with at least 28 game days between promotions. See Guild promotion and ranks for probation, daily reputation limits and chapter rules.

Services and benefits

Offline, the house gift chooses a house from the region’s sale stock. The limit of three owned houses per region still applies; if the region is full for your character or has no houses for sale, the gift is refused without being spent. Online chapter chairs bring no house. See Homes.

Quest choices and rewards

Member quests use the same pool for every order. A requirement below 10 is met by membership rank or character level, whichever is higher; reputation requirements remain separate. Four non-member jobs are also available. The offered mission is drawn from the eligible pool, so eligibility does not guarantee a particular quest.

The Artifact can lead to Auriel’s Bow, Auriel’s Shield or Lord’s Mail. The Lost Artifact can lead to Chrysamere, Necromancer’s Amulet, Staff of Magnus or Warlock’s Ring. These are alternatives within their quests, not a combined reward. Read each quest’s choices before committing to its artifact route.

Most order quests pay no scripted gold: reputation, the armour ladder and the added reward choice can matter more than cash. See Quest rewards and loot for the distinction between scripted rewards, added gear and ordinary dungeon loot.