29 November, 2015 - 19:45 valdar

The Entity of Neutrality and the Story of the

Black Knights
Around the year 800, Black Knights began to appear in history and, since the 13th century, a
series of legends mentioning the mysterious Black Knights, then known as the Sith, emerged.
Although the Black Knights were said to have carried out good deeds and fought to protect cities
from unjust rulers and other threats, texts referring to these legends were censored and banned by
the Church during the medieval period. Nevertheless, the story of the legendary knight Ashor
endured over the centuries.

The origin of Black Knights is closely linked to the legend of Ashor, a knight who had remained
skilled and strong, despite his advanced age, and who specialized in the killing of kings and other
nobles. Some time around the 13th or 14th century, there was a king with a powerful enemy a
king of another land who oppressed his people. Desperate to defeat his opponent, the good king
sent a message calling Ashor to his court. One night, the king woke up to find Ashor near his
bed. The assassin had entered his castle without detection, thus having proven his skill.
Ashor asked the king who he needed to kill and the king gave his order. Ashor accepted the task,
but said that he would first check the kings claims that his enemy was an evil oppressor. Ashor
entered the fortress city of the kings enemy, and witnessed for himself the cruelty of the ruler;
his task to assassinate the king would proceed as planned.
Ashor discovered that an old priest, who had once risen up against the cruelty of the evil king,
was being held prisoner in the dungeon. Thus, after fulfilling his order to kill the king, Ashor,
moved by the priests story, decided to free him from the prison. He entered the dungeon and
found the man in bad condition. He was very weak and could barely stand. Unfortunately, the
priest proved to be a burden, making it difficult for Ashor to escape. While carrying the old man
out of the dungeon, the knight was injured. Nevertheless, the two got up on a horse, escaped the
city and made for the woods.

Priest in a dungeon (public domain)

The black knight had freed the city from its evil king and he had escaped. However, with people
in pursuit, Ashor understood that he could not tend to his wounds on time and he descended from
the horse telling the priest that he would not slow him down and he must continue. The priest
thanked him, gave him his blessing and left as instructed.
Ashor waited for his end near a tree. Soon, as blood left the knights body, a demon appeared
before him telling the knight that his soul belonged to him and he had come to claim him. Before
the demon could take Ashors soul, an angel also appeared, saying that the knights soul

belonged to him and that he had come to take it with him to Heaven. Apparently, the knights
good deeds had been just a little more numerous than his bad ones and he had been forgiven.
As the two entities were getting ready to clash in order to fight for the humans soul, a third
entity appeared. At this time, the angel and the demon had stopped fighting as if they had been
frozen. The third entity had no form. In order to be visible, it had appeared as a figure in a black
cloak. However, nothing could be seen coming out of the cloak: no hands, no feet, no face. This
third entity was Il Separatio, the Anonymous one, the keeper of universal balance, the one who
cannot be named.
Anonymus is the personification of perfect neutrality. He is neither good, nor evil, he is beyond
all divisions. Il Separatio spoke and said that the knight had done just as much good as he had
done evil. Therefore, none of the two sides could claim his soul. He belonged to Il Separatio. At
that moment, both the angel and the demon disappeared and Anonymus turned to the knight.

A statue of the Anonymous One, Il Separatio, Budapest, Hungary (Vajdahunyad Castle)

Ashors wounds had been healed. He got up and talked to Il Separatio. The entity told Ashor that
he had become free and no longer belonged to the system. He was outside it, beyond it. Il
Separatio told the knight that he could do whatever he wanted, that he could live for as long as he
wanted, that he could travel anywhere (including other planets). When he was to become bored
of all of this, then he was to call upon Il Separatio to stand before him once again and tell him
about the true purpose of their existence. Ashor was told that, as now he was no longer part of

the system, his actions no longer mattered for the world. Should he do good deeds, other would
do bad deeds and the universal balance would remain unchanged. Should he do bad deeds, others
would do good deeds and, again, the balance of the universe would remain the same.
According to legend, Il Separatio disappeared once he finished his explanation, while the knight
Ashor still lives among humans today. It is said that he had chosen to do good deeds as a black
knight even though his actions no longer mattered for the world. Ashor, the Immortal, remains
the prototype for the image of the black knight.
Featured image: The Black Knight by theflickerees / deviantart
By Valda Roric

Source:
Valda Roric Loki The Trickster Unleashed
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