Ironmound-Arena
"That would be an excellent occasion to have one, yes. I meant to ask your majesty for permission to that end."
But...Luthien has had some good times in the lists.
"I remember watching my first joust as a kid. Armored Knights, each sporting plate shined enough to reflect the sun, no way to tell one knight apart from another but the heraldry on his shield, the favors they wore from the ladies they championed...it was exciting times."
But then he really starts to grin...
"But not half as exciting as when my order put ME on the horse. Watching is nice and all, participating is 20 times better. Astride a mighty steed in the lists, shield in one hand, lance in the other, aiming carefully at the other warrior. The crack of a broken lance. What's really fun is if you manage to unhorse the other knight. It almost never happens to the experienced knights, though anyone can get unlucky. Mostly it happens to the younger knights who don't know how to guard against it yet. Most of the time, jousts are won by the broken lance...it's worth twice as much as merely hitting the other guy."
Lutbien is fairly fired up about the idea of bringing a joust here. It would be a fantastic idea, from his point of view.
"More than all that, jousts have entry fees, audience fees, and so on, and you can delegate a decent chunk of that to a charity of choice. Most of the Holy Knight Orders who host one do that, so they can make sure some good happens out of the event. You do have to allow some time to set one up, particularly since Ironmound has never had one and nobody will be expecting it...and the Knights do need time to arrive and so on. Also need to set up the judges and things like that. I think it'd really get the imaginations of the people going, as it once did me."
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