Alright, so!
When you joined the a Silver Hand Chapter, there were three progression paths your character could choose upon taking your oaths.
The three paths available:
- Knighthood
- Priesthood
- Auxiliary
The auxiliary progression, mostly, would stop there. These were the people who weren’t necessarily Light users who assisted the Silver Hand in missions. Your rogues, your more academic mages, warriors, etc.
The Priesthood path would start you out as an initiate. You would apprentice under an actual Priest and you would spend three IRL months learning the different prayers, hymns, and rituals of the Church of the Holy Light.
The Knighthood path is the path you’d take on the road to being a Knight of the Silver Hand. Similar to Priests, you would spend three IRL months as a squire to a current knight. You would have to complete three trials, representing each of the three Tenets of the Silver Hand (I think it’s now 6, but at the the time, it was 3.)
Once you completed your duties and training, the person you were a squire/initiate under would go to the Highlord of the Chapter (The Guild Leader) and they would size up your character. If they gave the nod of approval, the lead priest of the Chapter would do the same. Once their blessings were given, you are granted the title, at least for the Knight path, which is what I took at the time, Knight-Errant. You would have this title before your ceremony.
And you got a NICE ceremony when it came time for your knighthood.
ALL of the Chapters of the Silver Hand, the Clergy of the Holy Light, and various other guilds, would all gather in your CHOSEN holy site for the ritual and knighting. My character was a Gilnean, so she chose to go to the Gilneas Cathedral.
You guys can laugh about the Gilnean choosing to aid the Lordaeron Chapter now.
Your character was FRONT AND CENTER during the ritual, and you were given pieces of RP gear to equip during the oaths and knighting. Your character was IC blessed, your RP set was updated to look more knightly, and, at the end of the ceremony, all of the different people, and there were like twenty, would raid down their AoE spells and heals onto you.
You were then granted the title of Knight, with the prefix of either Sir or Dame. You were granted a MULTI-GUILD recognition of said knighthood. You were also free to take on a squire yourself if you became a knight.
My character went all the way to Champion of the Chapter before the Silver Hand guilds exploded :c