Let's clear up the mamaluke hating that's going on, and maybe you'll all understand why it is they are not knights in shining armour.

When the RP was first created, the original author, Primal Conundrum, wanted the users to create the various city states that made up her patchwork world of broken nations. 

I originally wanted to play an oversized hamster, because I've never done it before and they are awesome so shut up. She turned me down as a sexy furry, despite my many attempts to persuade her that I wasn't a sexual deviant. I was ultimately unsuccessful, so I went down another road. 

Everyone was creating these really crazy races, of all kinds of monsters and ROFLbeings. I wanted to bring the RP back down to earth though, so I made a humble human. 

Middle Eastern culture never gets a shout out in RPs, so I decided that rather than have my guy be some westernised European-type Prince, I'd make him a more Egyptian/Arabesque fellow. 

Eblistan (note the STAN, and that the people are referred to as EbliSTANIS, much like Pakistanis) was then born from this idea. The city state was not supposed to be the main setting of the game, I think it was just as no one else came forwards to create parts of the world, Primal ended up taking my contribution and using it as the RP's starting-off point. 

I then got the RP thrown at me, and decided that a fictional, Muslim based culture sounded like a jolly old thing (again, the Prohpet Ebli vs the Prophet Mohammed ((not any likeness between them to any Muslim observers, just the word 'Prophet' was borrowed!!!))

Mamalukes are real world Middle Eastern warriors, though there is much more to their name than that, I just cba to describe the history of it. 

So in conclusion, rather than a westernised Kingdom with Knights and Kings and other archetypes, I went for a Caliph and a Middle Eastern style setting.

*breathes in*

So y'all stop hating on my mamalukes!

Right, let me get back to this RP and see what's what.