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Corruption is a Choice

Resistance is a Responsibility

What is Motive Knight?

Motive Knight is a table top role playing game about resisting oppression in a world ruled by intangible demons and their willing accomplices.

Characters in Motive Knight are not defined by an archetype, but by the Skills they choose to develop, the supernatural Abilities of their Souls, and the choices and sacrifices they make in pursuit of a less horrible world.

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The Motive Orders

“Your Motive Order is like your family or your ancestry, if belonging to a family was a capital offense.”

- Legate Willowflint

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Orders Art by Tofuyi

Order of the Anointed

  • Protectors of the natural world

  • Empower their souls through the songs of the World Spirit

  • Befriend, commune with, and channel the creatures, and powers of nature

  • Often practice professions such as hunting, sailing, farming, herding, or anything else that allows for time outside the distractions of city life.

Order of the Damned

  • Infiltrators of the enemy’s ranks

  • Focus themselves through supernatural conviction

  • Stand within arm’s reach of power in order to stand within striking distance of their enemies

  • Often members of lesser noble houses or influential guilds. Others may be employed as diplomats, attaches, or body guards.

Order of the Elucidation

  • The eldest surviving Order

  • Expand their supernatural capabilities by focusing energy through crystals

  • Seek to preserve the legacy of the Motive Knights at all costs

  • Often employed as jewelers, guards of jeweling guilds, or in other forms of trades and craft work.

Order of the Liberation

  • Preservers of knowledge

  • Prepare and support their allies through supernatural use of rare knowledge and advanced studies

  • Maintain secret libraries and archives to ensure knowledge cannot be lost or destroyed

  • Often work as scribes, archivists, pamphleteers, book binders, or similar.

Order of the Sunken Tower

  • Guerilla warriors

  • Learn techniques of Malediction to curse and destroy their foes

  • Live and train in cells organized under a military-like leadership structure with a focus on team tactics

  • Often pose as caravan guards, mercenaries, or even brigands to disguise their cell’s activities.

Inspirational Materials

Motive Knight was inspired by a wide range of philosophies, legends, trends, mythologies, and emotions - most of which aren’t easily conveyed in this format. However, a lot of the inspiration for Motive Knight also came from media. Below is a list of recommendations for anyone looking to inspire their own Motive Knight adventures.

Authors

Edgar Allen Poe

Mary Shelley

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

George Orwell

Music

Listen to the music that inspired Motive Knight
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Games

In Nomine - Steve Jackson Games

Tyranny - Obsidian Entertainment

Warhammer 40,000 - Games Workshop

Education & Scholarship

Esoterica - Dr. Justin Sledge