I don't know if this has been brought up before. Google didn't seem to return any immediate results to indicate that, that would be the case so I apologize before hand if this beating a dead horse.
But something I've noticed in regards to Hellknights, in particular this one minor order, Order of the Pike, is that their lore describes them having a lot in common with the Order of the Nail, additionally it seems Nail sponsored their way back in as a minor order. Despite this, the listed analogous order for the Order of the Pike is in fact the Order of the Scourge.
Less a question and more of a statement I suppose, but it feels like this might have been accidental. The obedience's of Nail also seem to be a better fit than Scourges such as getting a favored enemy type, getting to use status as a spell-like, mage's dis-junction as an exception for the third level boon, admittedly that doesn't seem to fit super well for a naturalistic flavored order but 2/3 ain't bad.
Also, admittedly Scourge's aren't completely out of place in Pike, but Nail's seem to be the obvious fit, at least to me.
Am I missing something here, what is the connection between Pike and Scourge?
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I remember wrestling with the Orders years ago. Ultimately, I came up with the following, based as much as I could interpret from canon. Of course, I assume more canon could well have been published since I extrapolated the following, but since I was happy with mine, I haven't gone back to check up on the newest developments:
Order of the Scourge .... Egorian
Root out corruption and lawless individuals in society, publically
punish criminals
Order of the Nail .... Korvosa
Bring Law and Order to savages, barbarians, uncivilized peoples
Order of the Pike .... Senara
Kill chaotic monsters and threats to society
(I can copy/paste the others too if you're interested.)