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At the end of the game, having thanked your friend for his patience as you begin to pack up the pieces, you notice Brother Marcel Rousseau staring at you silently. You pause, a quizzical look on your own face at you return the look. Eventually, the holy knight seems to come to a decision. He makes the sign of the One True Faith, one hand clench in a fist with another gripping the wrist. Holding your gaze, the man slowly pulls down his sleeve to reveal the inside of his forearm. There, small enough you might have missed it if you weren’t paying attention, is a sigil of a broken chain link etched in ink on the man’s flesh.
You had long known that Brother Rousseau was highly regarded among the Knights Comitas, and that the Cathagi Chapter Master Callahan holds him in particularly high esteem. Very little regarding the significance of that tattoo, or the degree of trust Rousseau has confided in you is made clear to you now. It is only later, introduced in a secluded room back at the Church of the Holy Juvenescence, that two other senior members of the Knights Comitas communicate the full significance of what Rousseau just revealed to you.
For now, the silent exposure of the tattoo is an oddity that you let pass without pressing your quiet friend on the point. But later at his behest Chapter Master Callahan and Brother Jesaul, another senior member you know from your term of service in Romaine, explain to you that they and Brother Rousseau have more than ordinary duties in their Cathagi charter.
The official mandate of the Knights Comitas is to protect the pilgrim routes and lend aid to those making the perilous journey from Canton to Cathagi. This has been the case since long before the Crusades Adamant and they are one of the few holy orders to maintain a permanent stronghold outside of the Kingdom of Heaven, other lesser examples being the Order of the Trident in Langland and the Order of Names in realms unknown. Certainly their chapter based in the Church of Holy Juvenescence in Cathagi is the largest and most public of foreign knightly charters. They also have a significant presence in your home Duchy of Romaine, subsidising the border forts along the malleable Romaine/Ardenne border to curb the encroachment of the everpresent threat emanating from there.
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