[Discuss] Oaths of fealty and their confliction with other orders

[Tessa]

I still don't understand how the orders become contradictory though. A 
region lord's orders will always supercede those of anyone else to his
knights, regardless of who does it, since any authority they do it 
under will be from him, and he can therefore revoke that at any time. 
Telling your knights to do something contrary to an order from someone 
you have given authority to is essentially just like revoking their 
authority, not contradicting their orders, since you have given your 
knights a command straight from you, as opposed to through a medium.
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Well, the orders are contradictory because they say two different 
things. Marshal says march to regionA and start a TO, Lord says march 
to regionB and smite the enemies of thy faith. If the lord wants to 
revoke the authority over his knights from the Marshal (and no one is 
saying he doesn't have the power to do so) he should remove them from 
the army, otherwise, technically, the Marshal still has authority (I'd 
say). Removing the knights from the army (quite literally) removes the 
Marshal's ability to send them orders. Thus ending any possible 
confusion, and it's the all around nice thing to do.