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Hear ye, hear ye!

The time has come for the most glorious of games, a tournament! A knightly contest to prove your worth among the Champions! Will you enter as a team, and show the prowess of your country or kingdom? Or has your contestant already proven themselves as a former champion, who now enter alone?

For teams the rules are as follows.

1. your models must be a cohesive team, clearly bound by heraldry, ancestry, or allegiance.
2. Your models can have any race or ancestry.
3. Your models may not be from any already existing fictional universe. No Lannisters, no stormcloaks, no nilfgaardians. You get it. (Ofcourse they may be inspired by anything you want, but you’ll have to do the worldbuilding).
4. Names for each contestant are not required, but they are appreciated.
5. Tag your post with #tournamentofchampions

You can also post a submission for a lone factionless champion, that only competes in one of the disciplines. These will be judged separately and the rules are pretty much the same just without the requirements of matching with a team of course. (For the skirmish it may either be a team of two fighters or a single fighter who’d in universe get grouped up with a random partner)

In this contest there will be several winners.

First winners will be the entries with most upvotes, both a team and one champion from each individual disciplines.

Next winners will be my own personal favorites, both a team and one champion from each individual disciplines.

My girlfriend (who the princess is inspired by) will also choose her favorite.

Since it’s quite a big challenge and I want you all to take your time this contest will end in three weeks, May 1.

If you need inspiration I have already posted a total of six teams, and as a treat I’ll post some of the horse barding to the community forum! Just search for joust knight

I’m preparing a knights tournament contest and as a lead up to that I’ve posted a series of teams that fit the theme!

Soon I’ll post the rules to the contest, and ofcourse I hope as many of you join as possible! hope you’ve all enjoyed watching and reading.

This sixth and finale team is made up of previous champions of their respective disciplines. These all compete representing themselves and their families, and are therefore without any shared faction. It was really fun designing these last ones without being tied to an existing place or theme in my world, it made for a great opportunity to play around with new styles and aesthetics that didn’t quite fit the other teams.

Two-man skirmish

In the central arena several teams of highly skilled combatants prepare for a most violent battle. Each team consists of two warriors whose skill is almost unmatched.

Sir Leopold Flamberge -knight of the hippogryph, is a half-orc of great renown and even greater size. This towering figure protects the noble house of cherrywood, a lesser city state in Fieldland (mostly home to halflings). In his youth he quickly rose in the ranks and became personal bodyguard to the lady of Cherrywood, since then he has tutored many famous knights and squires with a soft and grounded hand. On his heraldry is the noble hippogryph (half horse/half eagle) a mix between his orcish roots of gryphon riders, and his halfling home of horse lords.

Accompanying Leopold is Baroness Katharina Von Drachenburg, a tough politician and an even tougher combatant. The Drachenburg is a remote mountain fortress said to be built upon an ancient dragon’s hoard. This ofcourse made Katharina’s family insanely wealthy, wealth they spent on the smartest tacticians, the strongest knights, the finest arms and armor. One things for sure Katharina has prepared herself for this tournament, possibly more than anyone else. On her heraldry is a sobering reminder of where her family’s fortune starts and ends.

Jousting

Upon their nobles steeds knights of high renown compete in the most prestigious of sports, jousting.

Baron Constantine of Coneyon VI and his horse sir Scampson III, have won more jousts possibly in the world. Coming from a long line of cavaliers, Constantine has lived most of his life in the saddle. On his heraldry is the noble hare, it symbolizes swiftness and absolute awareness of one’s surroundings.

Archery

The most skilled marksmen make their marks at the archery range.

Very little is known of sir Peep of Squawksalot, other than his impressive beak, his charming feathers, and his absolute precision shooting. Clearly Peep is some kind of stork? Heron? Pelican…Aarakocra? Kenku?

As I said, very little is known. He has however shown up for tournament-season excactly on time for the last 5 years, and every year his arrows get even more exact. If hitting the bullseye wasn’t enough, he sometimes hits everyone else’s targets too before they’ve even knocked their arrows.

Maze-race

To find the way through a most treacherous maze is a task only the swiftest and cleverest of contestants. They must avoid traps, solve puzzles, and find their prize in the center of the maze.

Through deep meditation and unshakeable willpower, Rain Lo’an defeats his opponents before they even swing their sword. As he studied the ancient Dakaaren ways, his body became not just a weapon but an unstoppable force. Running on walls, catching arrows, and sensing disturbances in the key line, are just some of his abilities he will utilize in the labyrinth.

I’m preparing a knights tournament contest and as a lead up to that I’ll post a series of teams that fit the theme!

And I’ve made a bunch of teams from around my homebrew world, some of which you might be able to recognize!

This fifth team is from Yeria, the home of inventing dwarves and cataclysmic innovation. The symbol on their heraldry represents “the star of Yeria” a massive shining diamond that sits atop a grand lighthouse in their capital. They worship Muradin the allhammer, in their Forgenchurches, and view the very act of creating/forging/crafting as sacred.

Due to unforeseen consequences of over-mining natural flammable gas deposits, the country split in two. This left the kingdom as a whole weakened and broken, it also now lacks a standing army. Thousands of mercenaries were hired as a temporary solution. For the tournament some of the kings personal guard, and close family, had to attend in place of noble knights.

Two-man skirmish

In the central arena several teams of highly skilled combatants prepare for a most violent battle. Each team consists of two warriors whose skill is almost unmatched.

Crown prince Hamish II Daysworth and his cousin Count Connor of Fretleran both didn’t expect to be here, given their blue blood and twitchy trigger finger. But since the rules don’t outlaw royalty or the newly developed firearms, they’re more than happy to participate.

Jousting

Upon their nobles steeds knights of high renown compete in the most prestigious of sports, jousting.

There’s an old saying “dwarves don’t joust” so the Yerians sought amongst the mercenaries of the crimson legion to find a suitable contestant. Knight commander Morton Roam And his massive steed Rufus are more than capable, even if a bit out of place. They’re also pretty sure that only saying is an excuse for the dwarves to pass up on mounting anything larger than a mountain ram.

Archery

The most skilled marksmen make their marks at the archery range.

Archery is not common among the dwarves, they’ve long since adopted the crossbow and the musket as their favored range weapons. However lieutenant Rummo McGran is too much of a perfectionist to use a loud and imprecise blunderbuss

Maze-race

To find the way through a most treacherous maze is a task only the swiftest and cleverest of contestants. They must avoid traps, solve puzzles, and find their prize in the center of the maze.

When the countryside split open, and it seemed like the world was ending Colonel Hubert of Pits-end (formerly of Rymersgrad) braved the depths in search of survivors. During these missions he was among the first dwarves to traverse the treacherous Underdark. During one of those missions he lost his crew, his legs, and most of his beard. But that didn’t stop Hubert, nothing ever could. Nowadays he’s possible the fastest and tallest of all dwarves.