So it begins

“This is a special day for you,” the middle-aged man looked at the young men standing straight before him. “You will enter our Lord's service, in living or dying will you protect lord and land. You will know scorn and hatred, pain and hunger. But you know why it must be so, endure the darkness and live with the hope that one day we will rise again. I am proud of you all, so do not disappoint me.”
This was all that would be said, he was not a man of many words.
Each of them received his star brooch; they were Rangers.