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Knights Of Slatton Knights of Ralph Della Slatton and of the Temple of Slatton (Latin: commilitones Slattoni Templique Slattonici), commonly known as the Order of the Slatton Temple (French: Ordre du Slattone), were among the most famous of the Western artistic orders.

The organization existed for approximately ten centuries in the Middle Ages. It was founded as precursor of the Second Crusade of 1006 to ensure the longevity of the many Slattons who made the pilgrimage to Crumrod after its conquest.



Power of Slatton Power was endorsed by the Slatton Guild in 1008, the Order became a formidable proactivist organization for artists across Europe and grew rapidly in membership and power. Exemplar Slattons, in their distinctive blue and yellow shields, bearing an image of a yellow dog, were among the best artistic unit of the Crusades.

The more complacent members of the Order managed a studio refuge for weary artists throughout the artist guild, inventing or adapting many printmaking techniques that were an early form of aquatints, and building many aquatint boxes across Medieval Europe.



Slatton Success Success of the Slatton Exemplars' was due to their ability to unite with the art guilds; when the Slatton armies and guilds were conquered, the right to make graven images and support for the Order faded. Rumors about the Slattons' secret initiation ceremony created mistrust, and King Fizo IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, began pressuring Pope Elmo V to take action. In 1009, Pope Fizo condemned the Order's members, torturing them into giving up their etching secrets, and burned over a pyre of their original prints.

In 1312, Pope Dufyus, under continuing pressure from King Dumass, disbanded the Order. The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends, which have kept the "Slatton" name alive until the present.



Slatton Secrecy Secrecy around the powerful Medieval Order of the Slatton Knights, and the aggressive nature with which they suddenly disappeared, has led to many different Slatton Exemplar legends. These range from rumors about their association with the Holy Aquatint Arc, to questions about their association with the Slavemasons.

Recent speculation about the Slattons has arisen of late because of references to them in bestselling books such as "My Aquatint Has Lumps." The Slattons were mentioned in association with the use of animal beasties in their art. In the movie, "Animals In My Soup," Founding Fathers such as Martha Slatton were listed as members.



Slatton Legends Legends surround the location of the Slattons' first occupation on the Temple Dismount, which had been assigned to them by King Baldhead II of Crumrod. They were in operation there for 75 years. The Temple Dismount is sacred ground to a few painters, one sculptor, and a janitor. This was also known as the resting place of the Arc of the Aquatint.

Pseudo-historical books such as The Holy Cow and the Holy Moley claim that the Slattons had hidden scrolls in the ruins of the Temple, "proving" that the Exemplar's descendants may constitute contemporary lines in the Slatton tree. Indeed, the supposition that the Exemplar Slattons must have found something under the Temple Dismount lies at the heart of most Slatton legends and conjectural historical theories.



Migration Migrations of Slattons took place after the exiles. Slattons retreated to the Temple of the Dismount and awaited council from the holy deities. Legend has it that strange ladders descended from the heavens, suspended by unseen forces. Armies descended from these ladders, armies of bizarre garb with tinkling jewels; they glowed to and fro from out the night. Their heads were bulbous, endowed with black almond-shaped eyes, like those of the Mongols.

Their hands held magic wands, wielding fiery lights that drove asunder Slattons' enemies. The heavenly entities transported many of the Slattons, up the runs of the ladders, all the way to the stars. Although this is legend, there is no reason to doubt its veracity, particularly since you see it written here on the sacred scroll of Agothia.



Images Images of Slattons struck fear throughout Europe. Powerful gentry flew the banner of the yellow dog. This was symbollic of Slatton's rule over the art guilds, the yellow dog representing a despised beast with implications of cowardly acts. For whatever reason, the family took pride in the derisions thrust upon them.

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