Your majesty, I become your vassal from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you. By the Lord Auros before whom this sanctuary is holy, I will to King Manus be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns, according to the laws of Auros and the order of the world. Nor will I ever with will or action, through word or deed, do anything which is unpleasing to his ideals, on condition that he will hold to me as I shall deserve it, and that he will perform everything as it was in our agreement when I submitted myself to him and chose his ideals."
I, Bandit Lord Cian Stonearms the rightful Baron de Deephold. Be it known to all, present and future, that I have voluntarily sworn to my lord, Manus, king of Hyperion, to keep the agreements contained in this charter.
Know that I come to you the Baron de Deephold, and now declare all my former fealties and obligations defied, and that as I do homage to your Crown, I shall tender that land of Deephold to you, that you being its king shall grant it back to me in fee even as I become your liege vassal.
Therefore, let all present and to come know that I the said Baron de Deephold, acknowledge verily to thee my lord Manus, by the grace of God, king of Hyperion, that I hold and ought to hold as a fief from thee the shire of Deephold for which I make homage and fealty with hands and with mouth to thee my said lord, king Manus, and from the abundance of which I shall grant to thee the 1/4 the future production of the mines of Deephold in the form of rare ores and cannon as well as the immediate service of our soldiers in the campaigns to eradicate barbarian peoples by and bring them under the grace of his majesty the King. And I swear that I will always be a faithful vassal to thee in all things in which a vassal is required to be faithful to his lord, and I will defend thee, my lord, and the subjects of Hyperion present and to come and the castles and manors and all your men and their possessions against all malefactors and invaders, at my request and that of my successors at my own cost; and I will give to thee power over all the castles and manors above described, in peace and in war, whenever they shall be claimed by thee.
I shall answer in military service to thee, my king Manus, whenever thou shalt call upon me, with 4 out of every 5 knights in my domain, but neither limited to only four, but to all knights I may muster according to the amount of possible knights fees in the land I claim as my shire, and with at least ten men for every knight who with me attends your Majesty's muster, and I shall be sure that they are liveried as properly as befits all the men and knights of a Baron of Hyperion. And if my land shall border with seaways or navigable rivers, that I shall answer feudal muster with one adequate warship for every knight's fee upon said waterfronts in my lands in place of infantry muster. Further, when thou hast convened the Parliament for the purpose of a levy, I shall pass this levy to all of my unenlisted men and bring all whosoever are able.
Moreover do I recognize that I, on being created as a peer to the Crown of Hyperion under King Manus, shall, according to the Carta Solis penned by King Manus, be entitled to a seat in the House of Lords of Hyperion, wherefore do I give my oath to protect, uphold, and obey the Carta Solis and the Common Law of Hyperion and all of its tenets, precepts, and rulings, whether they be decreed by His Majesty or by my peer lords, and I also shall require the same of all of my subjects, vassals, and liege men; that they swear to protect the King, the Carta Solis, the Common Law and Hyperion as I have, and that they do so when they shall make their liege homage to me.
In addition, should I fail in my duties, I will turn over to King Manus the fortresses of Deephold, and give him control of all the men who dwell there and all the knights who hold fiefs of the castles, so that if I break my promise to keep these agreements, all the aforesaid men shall hold directly of my lord, Manus, king of Hyperion; and they shall swear to aid him even against men and against every other man or woman or creature.
My debts are my own and on this day forth if I fail to pay I swear that I shall be stripped of all title and position and forever banned forthwith on pain of death from the lands of Hyperion and the king.
On this day I swear, Baron of Deephold, Bandit Lord of The Homeless Cian Stonearms