(10-07-2014, 03:02 PM)Melkire Wrote: The historical sipahis were comparable to medieval European knights in status only; the similarities ended there.Maybe in Persian use... in Ottoman use it is virtually synonymous with "knight" in the European sense
 They were men provided with land holdings in exchange for their service as heavy cavalry in time of war (in addition to providing feudal levies from their lands). They even used armor, barding, and equipment similar to Western knights long after that had fallen out of favor in Western Europe.
Sad that it sounds like there is no lore in FF to help piece together what its intended meaning is (if it was even intended to have any meaning beyond providing a particular style of armor).
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