Liege

==Liege==

Introduction:

This is a concept that may be new to many players regardless of their background.

"Lady Callisto" of Abington gave a good explanation of how it works in-game, so I'll just quote her:

Callisto Explains:

When you create your character, it's randomly "born" in a region of the kingdom of your choice.

If the region you're "born" in has a Local Lord or Lady, then you are auto-sworn to that person, since the region already has a Liege associated with it. You'll automatically be a Knight at this point.

If the region you're "born" in does not have a Lord (either by a lord not being appointed there, or the region losing it's lord somehow) then you are not associated or auto-sworn to someone, since there's not anybody to auto-swear to. You'll be labeled "Lord" (or if the programmers had genders correct, you'd be "Lady" as the case might be)

Knights generally can't re-swear to anybody, though Lords can, since either it'll be a first-time allegiance creation or a re-swear if the Liege you once had either is removed from the game or injured or stepped down from their position.

Yes, possibly overkill in explaining it, but that should help get rid of confusion some of the newer people have over the issue.