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Daring Rooster
 
PostPosted: Tue, May 15 2012, 0:12 AM 

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I did a search and it does not seem like anyone has asked this yet:

Is there any additional information, anywhere, on what sort of philosophy the old order follows? I know Panthalo says a few lines about it, but those few lines seem to get repeated across the internet as the only real description of the order. If not, I'll continue to RP my monk as a sort of martial arts generalist, but if there is additional info it would be nice to have. Thanks!

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PostPosted: Tue, May 15 2012, 0:39 AM 

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The Old Order is about as generic and vanilla as it's possible for a lore-defined organization to be. They're basically just monks who are devoted to monkishness; the lore info on it was intentionally left too vague to be useful.

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Monks of the Old Order do not worship any specific deity, but are devoted to the philosophy espoused by a deity who is either now dead or has never existed on the plane of Toril. The monks contradict themselves on this point, but the deity's identity isn't important to them, it's the message they care about. The Old Order never has huge monasteries, but has spread widely throughout Faerun. Monks of the Old Order can multiclass freely as rogues, sorcerers, and shadowdancers, but must maintain more monk levels than their combined levels of other classes.

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PostPosted: Tue, May 15 2012, 17:42 PM 

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There's also this:

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[Rand's Travelogue]Waterdeep Plinth: Located in Trades Ward, this set of sacred rocks is kept as a place of worship and meditation for all faiths. Many long-dead deities hear from their worshipers only at the feet of the Plinth. For the record, the Monks of the Old Order eschew worship at the Plinth, preferring to leave their departed god alone, if in fact they ever had a god.


And the robes themselves say:

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Robes of the Old Order: Whatever the motives of the Monks of the Old Order might be, no one doubts that they are keenly, defensively minded. Rumor has it that the masters of the order attain ranks by being able to survive a beating by an Ogre, without ever raising a hand in defense. True or not, these robes, produced by the order to fund monasteries, are the trade mark of any monk who would survive in the frontlines of combat, against an enemy clad in armor.

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Daring Rooster
 
PostPosted: Wed, May 16 2012, 5:34 AM 

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Thanks to both of you for the responses - I appreciate it. Perhaps my Monk will start calling his teachings 'philostophy'... :D

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