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Arthur:[Handing Uryenes Excalibur] You, Uryenes, will knight me. Then as knight to knight... I can offer you mercy.
Merlin: [Alarmed] What's this? What's this?
Mador: Keep it, Uryenes!
Uryenes: [hesitates and then touches Excalibur to Arthur's shoulder] In the name of God, St Michael and St George, I give you the right to bear arms and the power to mete justice!
Arthur: That duty I will solemnly obey, as knight and king.
Merlin: I never saw this.
Uryenes: Rise... King Arthur.
Uryenes: [Uryenes kneels before Arthur] I am your humble knight, and I swear allegiance to the courage in your veins. So strong it is, its source must be Uther Pendragon. I doubt you no more!

Godfrey of Ibelin: Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.
Godfrey of Ibelin: [cuffs Balian with the back of his hand] And that's so you remember it.
Hospitaller: Arise a knight and Baron of Ibelin.

"Kneel. For valor in battle. For honor in service. I, Holden Cross, raise you. Stand, Knight of the Blackstone Legion."
Holden Cross, For Honor

King: Maria Campbell. My sons have spoken much of you, Maria Campbell, President of the Academy's Student Council. You saved my sons lives from one of the once-Marchioness Dieke's cronies who used his magic to have them and others in his mercy, a force so terrible he called upon the fog to mark his chamber.
Crowd: [gasps]
King: You walked to the border city of Noir, inspiring stories and saving lives. You entered a stronghold in the name of children who had been taken. Already tales are told, in places high and low, of the courage and miracles wrought by Lady Maria, who protects children from rabid dogs and cures their bites so the cursed affliction will not take hold. Who stands against those who would take what is not theirs, to protect the ones with little to their name. Who heals with a touch and makes the lame walk.
Maria: [confused, but silent]
King: It has taken time, but the Ministry has catalogued and confirmed all the reports you have sent as to your locations, interviewed witnesses to your actions. I have read them. Know that I have judged better men with less, Lady Maria.
Maria: [freaked out, but silent]
King: You are called Lady. Are you a noble, Maria Campbell?
Maria: No, your Majesty.
King: Do you want to be?
Crowd: [gasps]
Maria: No, your Majesty.
Crowd: [gasps harder]
King: Why not?
Maria: I have done nothing to deserve such an honor.
King: You were told not to lie, Maria Campbell.
Maria: I do not lie, your Majesty.
Crowd: [utterly silent]
King: [quietly] No, no, you don't, do you? [lays his sword on her shoulder] By the Darksign, in the lost name of the Chosen Lord of the Hallowed, and by my authority as King, I hereby dub thee Lady Maria, a knight of Sorcier. And charge thee to deserve such an honor.
Maria: [very confused] Yes, your Majesty.
King: [quietly] Well, congratulations. I look forward to what you do next.

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