Not to be confused the Knights of the Stag.
"Tamed only by the righteous, the sight of a charging Great Stag is a terrifying glimpse into the raging heart of the forest."
- —The Wild Rider elite.[1]
A troop of Great Stag Knights.
The Great Stag Knights are an elite class of Wild Riders that ride Great Stags to battle rather than the Steeds of Kurnous their brethren use as mounts.[1]
Overview[]
Amongst a lower class of Bretonnia, there are many ribald tales of carousing. As one famous story goes, an entire village turned out for a feast for the wine god, but alas their merriment was ruined by a stampede of sylvan knights, each mounted atop a Great Stag. Everything was smashed and the whole party was beset with a magical sleep until the next day, when they awoke sore of head and beffuddled. Since then, all have come to fear the coming of the Stag Knights.[2a]
Notable Great Stag Knights[]
- Lost Sylvan Knights - All dread the coming of the stampeding Sylvan Knights, whose ghostly forms terrorise the forest's fringes.[1]
Trivia[]
Before being introduced in Total War: Warhammer II as a DLC unit for the Wood Elves, Great Stag Knights were likely only meant as a joke from GW's part. Their name is a possibly pun on Stag Nights, a UK bachelor's party tradition where the groom and his friends get drunk in a bar. Their only mention in-lore makes it seem possible that the Bretonnians simply got drunk and trashed their own party before passing out, with the mythical Stag Knights taking the blame.
The Lost Sylvan Knights take their name from the Age of Sigmar universe, where the Wood Elves were renamed Sylvaneth.
Sources[]
- 1: Total War: Warhammer II (PC Game)
- 1: Warhammer: Storm of Magic (Expasion)
- 1a: pg. 98
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