Billed as a 'true Empire Conquering Simulation in Real-Time,' Sunflower and Black Sea's will prompt gamers to reach the ultimate goal of ruling all of Europe.
![]() Knights Of Honor Soundtrack Download
The game play will be broken up into three major time periods including Early Medieval - 1000 AD; High Medieval - 1200 AD; Late Medieval - 1350 AD. Each of these carefully selected time periods represent a milestone of the day. Additionally you will be able to choose your own kingdom, which will in turn come with its own set of difficulties and challenges. Your economic and social situations, province sizes and how the rest of the world reacts towards you will be different depending on which kingdom you choose.
As for game play, the goal is a simple one: become the Emperor of all Europe. Whether you accomplish this by fair, honorable means or by dastardly, foul means is up to you. However, whichever route you choose your knights will be the most important element of the game. Knights will be used to fight wars, manage provinces, barter trade agreements, etc.
Keeping in tune with the Medieval setting of the game, the in-play soundtrack features sweeping, epic orchestrations that will accentuate the battles and other hardships that your empire will endure. Sunflower has been releasing snippets of the score on the music section of the Knights of Honor website over the past few weeks. The tracks you can check out range from 'Lost Battle' to 'Pride or Pain,' 'Last Fortress,' 'Bard's Tale,' 'March of Honor,' and the latest download, 'The Die is Cast!'
For the most part this are short previews of the music that will accompany the game, but the site also included three full-length versions of 'March of Honor,' 'Bard's Tale,' and 'The Die is Cast!'
So, if you'd like to get into the mood for conquering Europe before the game drops, check out the music. It might just help to release that inner Emperor who has been lurking within you all these years.
The Knights of Honor (K. of H.), was a fraternal order and secret society in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Knights were one of the most successful fraternal beneficiary societies of its time.[1]
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The origin of the order goes back to disputes in the state of Kentucky among members of the Order of United American Mechanics and the Ancient Order of United Workmen in Kentucky in the early 1870s. Dr. Darius Wilson was a Louisville physician and avid fratalnalist. In addition to being a Freemason and an Oddfellow, in 1872 he was elected State Council Secretary for OUAM of Kentucky. According to his own account, his work leading the OUAM made him so well known that he was approached by the leadership of the AOUW to help organize lodges for that Order as well. After being initiated in 1873 by Grand Master Workman Handy and the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, Dr. Wilson successfully organized Louisville Lodge #6, the sixth lodge of the order in Kentucky, with twenty four of Louisville's most prominent citizens as members and himself as Master Workman.[2]
While Dr. Wilson was studying the ritual of the AOUW he learned the national leadership of the OUAM had refused to charter a new Council of its youth affiliate, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics because they had adopted the name 'Robert E. Lee'. After becoming aware of this 'intolerance', Dr. Wilson resigned as Secretary of the Kentucky Council and withdrew from the Order. A local chapter of the JOUAM had also surrendered its charter in protest over the senior Orders actions. This posed a problem, as the members of the Junior Order were only eighteen to twenty ones years old and none of the existing fraternal orders would accept them, other than a few temperance groups. At the request of Council president J . A. Demaree, Dr. Wilson drew up a constitution and helped the Council reorganize as the Gold Lodge #1, Knights of Honor at a meeting held on June 30, 1870.[3]
Dr. Wilson never intended to create further lodges of the Knights of Honor and was devoting his time to the organizing more lodges of the AOUW when his commission from the latter was revoked on October 24, 1873. That night Grand Master Workman Handy went to Louisville Lodge #6 and had charges drawn up against him for creating a new fraternal order and copying the AOUWs constitution. A committee was set up to investigate the charges. According to Wilson, the members of this committee were, like him, also Freemasons and Independent Order of Oddfellows|Oddfellows]], and could see that the constitution of the AOUW was a copy of the constitution of the Oddfellows Grand Lodge of Ohio, itself a copy of the constitution of a Masonic Grand Lodge.[4]
Grand Master Workman Hardy maintained that the creation of a rival order while holding a commission from the AOUW was a breach of trust on the part of Dr. Wilson. Other have questioned whether the constitutions and laws were essentially those of the Oddfellows or Masons.[5]
In any event, Dr. Wilson ignored Hardy's opposition, abandoned his medical practice and devoted his energies to organizing the Knights of Honor. The meeting he had called to organize Lodge #8 of the AOUW, he instead made Louisville Lodge #2 of the Knights. By his own account he secured all the members and organized 80 of the first 81 lodges. He also tried early on to get the group on a graded assessment formula. However, his associates disagreed, feeling that people would not want to join an order that charged more than the $1 flat assessment and wanted to set the age limit for membership at 44. A compromise was reached with all members under 44 paying the $2 flat assessment rate and a graded assessment for ages 44 to 45.[6]
Sick benefits were paid out by the local lodges, but death benefits were managed by the Supreme Lodge. Members could buy certificates of $500, $1000 or $2000 plus assessments. The Knights differed from other orders such as the AOUW by using a graded assessment plan for its death benefits. Members between 45 and 55 paid more than those between 21 and 45. Soon the society admitted men 18 to 21 years old and expanded its graded assessment plan for all new members under the age of 45. By the mid 1890s, however, it became clear that this system of paying a fixed assessment year after year, based on the date the member joined the society would eventually be 'found wanting'. After prolonged investigation the Knights adopted a new insurance system with each age paying a different rate of assessment from 18 to 61, the effect being that each member in any one year would only pay out the benefits for the other members his age based on mortality tables.[7]
Unfortunately, when the Knights changed to a more actuarially sound financial basis in 1895 membership declined as insurance began to cost more. The group disbanded in 1916.[8]
Organization[edit]
The Knights were organized along the same three tier structure as most fraternal orders of the era. Local groups were 'Subordinate Lodges', state or regional groups were 'Grand Lodges' and the national authority was the 'Supreme Lodge'. In 1896 the Knights had thirty six Grand Lodges and 2,600 Subordinate Lodges with an average of fifty members each[9] By 1910, however, the number of Subordinate Lodges was down to 1,234. The national headquarters of the organization was in St. Louis, Missouri.[10]
Membership[edit]
Membership was open all acceptable white men of good moral character, who believed in God, were of good bodily health and able to support themselves and their family.[11] In 1875, the Supreme Lodge created a female auxiliary called the Degree of Protection open to the wives, mothers, sisters and unmarried daughters of the Knights, as well as males who were already members of the Knights of Honor. However in the years that followed only a few Lodges of this degree were created and in 1877 the Supreme Lodge abolished the degree. Thereafter, representatives of the degree met in Louisville and organized a new society, the Order of Mutual Protection of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, subsequently known as the Knights and Ladies of Honor.[12]
The Knights were founded by an original group of 17 men in 1873 and increased to 99 by the end of the year. By the end of 1874 it had increased to 999 members. The group was hit hard by the yellow fever epidemic of 1875–1878. In 1878 alone, the order had to pay out $385,000 for death benefits for 193 members.[13] Despite this, the Knights disbursed large sums of money to suffers of the yellow fever who were not members of the order.[14] Over the next 18 years, the order steadily increased its membership, reaching 126,000 in 1895. That year, as stated, the group changed from the graded assessment program to a more actuarially sound one, causing costs to go up and membership began to decline.[15] There were 96,000 members in 1897 and 90,335 in 1898.[16]
Ritual[edit]
Unlike most fraternal orders of its day,[17] the Knights of Honor did not require prospective members to swear an oath in the initiation rite, but merely to promise to obey the rules of the order and 'protect a worthy brother in his adversities and afflictions'. The secrecy of the order was declared to be only that which was necessary to keep 'intruders and unworthy men' from gaining benefits.[18]
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So, I took this to be public knowledge, but noticed that a lot of people apparently have never heard of it.
Knights of Honor IS getting a sequel. It hasn't been properly announced and it won't be called Knights of Honor 2 - However, it is coming.
Black Sea Studios, the KoH developers were acquired by Crytek in 2008 and later bought by Creative Assembly (owned by SEGA). It still exists, but certainly isn't what it used to be.
When the studio was bought, the right to the term 'Knights of Honor' fell to Crytek and remain there to this day.
However, that's not all.
In 2016, a corporation by the name Black Sea Games (lol) was founded. Since then two screenshots have been published:
Amazing, isn't it? This is clearly evidence of a project that is at least a spiritual successor to Knights of Honor, but, wait, it doesn't end here.
Kings of Valor. Kings of Honor. One of these is likely the name for the upcoming game.
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And that's it. Just wanted to put out the info out there. Release date? Who knows. Please don't harass the developer or the studio to release a game. The game will likely be done when it's done, ya know.
I'm sure the devs would be very happy about some love being sent their way, reassuring them that people are definitely excited for a sequel after 14 years.
Cheers!
PS: The Publisher? Who knows? Paradox Interactive again? Slitherine, maybe?
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