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Tonight, we strip away the myths, the shining armor, and the heroic legends to explore the quiet, exhausting reality behind knighthood. From the rigid expectations of childhood training to the bruising repetition of the training yard… from the weight of impossible oaths to the slow erosion of honor… this is knighthood as it truly was: heavy, muddy, lonely, and bound by duty.

You’ll walk through drafty castle halls, kneel beneath candlelit vows, endure endless marches through rain and mud, share weary conversations around a dying campfire, and feel the slow creep of age settle into your bones. No glory. No triumph. Just the long, world-weary truth of a life shaped by obligation, patience, and the quiet burden of being a knight in a world that rarely lived up to its ideals.

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