Knight
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A Knight is a highly trained and specialized warrior. He usually fights riding a warhorse, armed with a lance and/or a hand weapon, and is protected by heavy armour and a shield. Knights are heavy cavalry and the main purpose of a group of Knights is to act as shock cavalry.
The expensive equipment and specialized training usually requires a highly organized society and nation. Knights are a part of nobility and almost all male nobles are knights. Most knights hold their honour is high regard, and follow a code of chivalry, obeying certain rules of behaviour. Poor knights may see themselves forced to work as mercenaries, while the truly desperate and dishonourable may even become robber-knights. The last sort are no better than common criminals.
- In the Empire the majority of knights are organized in several Knightly Orders. Some of these orders are the figurative 'mailed fist' of religious cults while other are regional organizations.
- There seem to be no Knightly Orders in Bretonnia. The knights serve their feudal lord, the king of Bretonnia, and the Lady of the Lake. Young male nobles begin as Knights Errant, and if they survive become Knights of the Realm.
- Some of them will eventually follow a spiritual calling afterwards as Questing Knights but only very few succeed in their quest, rising to Grail Knights.
- The High Elves have the Dragon Princes and the Silver Helms
- The Dark Elves have the ruthless Cold One Knights.
- Chaos Knights are the most powerful warriors of Chaos. Many of them are traitors and renegades from civilized nations.
