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** Stannis creates a few of these after becoming king:
*** The Order of the Storm, the replacement for the defunct [[PraetorianGuard Kingsguard]], which serves the same role but with an expanded roster.
*** The Order of the Sun, a standing army designed to enforce royal authority in Dorne following the Red Viper Rebellion. In this case, the position of Grand Master of the Order is added to the royal family's hereditary titles.
*** The Knights of the Crown, a standing army for the Crownlands, members of which also serve as marines in the royal fleet.
*** The Order of the Sea, which is created after the Greyjoy Rebellion to enforce Stannis' new draconian laws for the Iron Islands and keep them pacified. Like with the Order of the Sun, the title of Grand Master of the Order is made hereditary for the reigning monarch.

* In ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'', Stannis creates a few of these after becoming king:
** The Order of the Storm, the replacement for the defunct [[PraetorianGuard Kingsguard]], which serves the same role but with an expanded roster.
** The Order of the Sun, a standing army designed to enforce royal authority in Dorne following the Red Viper Rebellion. In this case, the position of Grand Master of the Order is added to the royal family's hereditary titles.
** The Knights of the Crown, a standing army for the Crownlands, members of which also serve as marines in the royal fleet.

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has the Christian Marines, a sworn fellowship of military and police veterans that starts out as a neighborhood protection association against organized crime, but becomes an insurrectionary movement when the corrupt government attempts to crack down on them. The same story also features the Knights of St. Louis, a modern-day order of literal crusaders who join the neo-Tsarist Russians in their global wars against Islam.

* ''Series/TheOrder'' has the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose and the much smaller rival society The Knights of St Christopher. The Order are [[spoiler: practitioners of magic]] and the Knights are [[spoiler: Werewolves]]

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* TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} has several from the [[TheEmpire Imperium Of Man]], but the closest to the stereotypical [[TheOrder Order]] are the Grey Knights, an uncorruptible organisation of [[PoweredArmor Power Armored]], Daemon-hunting [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]]. However, being a heavy [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstruction]] of ThePaladin, they're ''[[WellIntentionedExtremist extremely]]'' ruthless, and undergo [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]] [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] during their selection course.

* ''Series/TheOrder'' has the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose and the much smaller rival society The Knights of St Christopher. The Order are [[spoiler: practitioners of magic]] and the Knights are [[Spoiler: Werewolves]]

Not to be confused with the short-lived Creator/MarvelComics title ''ComicBook/TheOrder'', the 2001 Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme movie ''Film/TheOrder2001'', or the 2003 Creator/HeathLedger movie ''Film/TheOrder''. Also not to be confused with ''VideoGame/TheOrder1886''. And ''definitely'' not to be confused with the white supremacist group that killed Alan Berg in 1984. Finally, not to be confused with the abstract concept of order: for that one, please see OrderVersusChaos.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has several Knightly ones, most notably the Knights of the Rounds. The spinoff manga ''Manga/CodeGeassOztheReflection'' has the Glinda Knights.

** A non-Stannis example: After the schism in the Faith between the traditionalists in the Great Sept of Baelor and the Myr-based reformists led by Septon Jonothor, the Order of the Sunset is founded as a fraternal organization for Baelorite knights living in the Kingdom of Myr.

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* The Knights of the Silver Hand from the ''Franchise/{{Warcraft|ExpandedUniverse}}'' setting were founded by the first [[ThePaladin paladins]]. It had quite a few members at one point, but was largely wiped out by Arthas after his corruption. It was later [[OrderReborn reformed]] by Tirion Fordring, and then merged with the Argent Dawn to form the Argent Crusade.

* The eponymous group of the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar series by Creator/MercedesLackey. The Heralds are each [[TheChosenMany Chosen]] by their Companions, CoolHorse–shaped BondCreatures, to defend TheKingdom of Valdemar in any way necessary. Each Herald possesses PsychicPowers, IncorruptiblePurePureness, and a life-long bond with his or her Companion. This order is especially closely tied to its Kingdom, since the Monarch is required to be a Herald--the aforementioned qualities ensure that he'll put his people's good above his own. They're called Heralds out of tradition; after the original King Valdemar and his Heir, the third person Chosen was Valdemar's royal herald.

** In ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', few of the factions fit but several of the sects (mini-factions outside of [[CityOfAdventure Sigil]]) do, such as the Order of the Planes-Militant. The Harmonium faction started as one of these centuries ago, when a group of adventurers founded the organization to permanently save their homeworld from evil. It eventually succeeded... by ''conquering'' the rest of the world and pushing out into other planes, graduating from TheOrder to TheEmpire (or TheKingdom, if you ask them) back home and trying to do the same elsewhere.

Orders can be secret or public, good or evil, but much like TheKingdom, good Orders show up far more often in fiction. Heroic Orders are likely to also be HeroesRUs, and dead Orders usually inspire OrderReborn plots. [[ThePaladin Paladins]] are usually part of an Order. If their purpose is protecting an ancient MacGuffin or other secrets they're an AncientOrderOfProtectors. Compare with AvengersAssemble.

* Creator/DCComics' Atomic Knights, a knightly order established AfterTheEnd (possibly in the same future as Kamandi) by Sgt Gardner [[MeaningfulName Grayle]] to protect the remains of civilization from the Black Baron. Later revealed as AllJustADream, and later still Grayle set up a real order of Atomic Knights in the [[InfiniteCrisis ruins of Bludhaven]].