Lore:Rune Knights of the Purgatory Disquisition

The Rune Knights of the Purgatory Disquisition (or the rune knights of old) were a small and extremely secretive knightly order founded early on during the Second Era. They were established by an obscure patron and traveled from Apocrypha to wage battles across Nirn. It was speculated by some that this founder could've been a Daedra or powerful arcanist. The order seemingly didn't last long but managed to leave a footprint on arcanist spellcasting, perfecting runic warding techniques which remained unchanged in the modern arcanist's skill-set. Azandar al-Cybiades was known to research the rune knights of old, but he referred to the result of his studies as a "little more than curious, open ended ephemera".

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• A rune knight is someone who is both an arcanist and a knight, that uses the warding techniques developed by the Rune Knights of the Purgatory Disquisition to conjure protective runes to survive attacks. Tales of rune knights being unharmed by hundreds of arrows is debated.