REVIVAL: Stump the person below you! (game)

[Revoltion]

Yes, yes he did.

Was it because he was hung like a horse?

[archieb]

The knight facing the opposite direction can tell his helmet colour. He may not be able to see the other knights but he will be able to see their coloured feathers over the wall

[sir_shadow]

no he cannot see them

[imnothere]

Here's a riddle I came up with for an assignment in high school:

A knight goes to his king one day and says that his king must choose one of four paths for the knight. One path leads to death by fire, another to the gallows, on one an executioner prepares his axe, and on the last he would be drawn and quartered.
The knight and the king talk for some time, and at the end of it, the king orders him to be hanged.
Why?

*The use of "path" is entirely metaphorical.

all i can think is that taking into account the weight of the armor a hanging would be the fastest way to go.
or the modes of death are tied to the "crime" that caused them, but i cant remember all the reasons-causes ties.
fire for heretics
quartering and beheading for treason
leaving hanging for criminals.

but i could be wrong on both accounts

[Gnerphk]

Aha! A knight wears a gorget - he can survive a hanging, maybe?

I think I'm missing something obscure and historical.

[sir_shadow]

is it becuase he was ordering the king to choose for him?

a king might get pretty angry over that.

[Demonhero]

all i can think is that taking into account the weight of the armor a hanging would be the fastest way to go.
or the modes of death are tied to the "crime" that caused them, but i cant remember all the reasons-causes ties.
fire for heretics
quartering and beheading for treason
leaving hanging for criminals.

but i could be wrong on both accounts

This is pretty close^.

[Gnerphk]

The riddle doesn't explicitly state that the knight would be the one to face all of these, unless I'm mistaken in the intent.

So... (speculating here) the knight advises the king that he should mend his ways, for the king now risks charges of heresy. There will be censure, excommunication, and revolution; the king risks losing his throne, and possibly even risks the stake. (Hence the fire and the axe.) His objections become strenuous and heated, angering the king, who determines that this is treason.

The king sentences the knight to be hanged, drawn and quartered - in keeping with the crime. The sentence is later commuted to a simple execution.

Sounds like we're talking about Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII to me. Of course, Sir Thomas was beheaded... but he was originally sentenced to be hanged, then drawn and quartered; this followed his objection to Anne Boelyn as Henry's second wife (while Catherine of Aragon was still alive) and Henry's subsequent suppression of the Catholic church in England.

Just a guess, though.

[Demonhero]

The riddle doesn't explicitly state that the knight would be the one to face all of these, unless I'm mistaken in the intent.

So... (speculating here) the knight advises the king that he should mend his ways, for the king now risks charges of heresy. There will be censure, excommunication, and revolution; the king risks losing his throne, and possibly even risks the stake. (Hence the fire and the axe.) His objections become strenuous and heated, angering the king, who determines that this is treason.

The king sentences the knight to be hanged, drawn and quartered - in keeping with the crime. The sentence is later commuted to a simple execution.

Sounds like we're talking about Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII to me. Of course, Sir Thomas was beheaded... but he was originally sentenced to be hanged, then drawn and quartered; this followed his objection to Anne Boelyn as Henry's second wife (while Catherine of Aragon was still alive) and Henry's subsequent suppression of the Catholic church in England.

Just a guess, though.

You're close, but I think you're overthinking it.

The knight confessed to four different crimes to his king, the penalties for which were four different death sentences.

[Gnerphk]

Ah! Treason, murder, lese majeste, heresy - that sort of thing.