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Green Knight Bretonnia

The Green Knight

The Green Knight is a well-known figure of Bretonnian folklore, and stories and poems about him are amongst the most popular in Bretonnia. A common character in puppet shows and plays performed for peasants and kings alike, he is bedecked in strange ivy-covered armour and intones his famous line: "None shall pass!" The traditional nemesis of the valiant Questing Knights of these tales, the Green Knight challenges them to duels so that they might prove their worth to the Lady herself, and thus sip from the blessed Grail.[1a]

Little do most realise that these stories arc bound in fact. The Green Knight is the sacred protector of Bretonnia, and his spirit-essence is intertwined with the land and the Lady of the Lake herself. He has appeared to many Questing Knights. They speak of the sky clouding over to create the darkness of twilight, and a green mist seeping from the earth, slowly taking the shape of a figure riding a snorting steed. The warrior brandishes a glowing blade, his eyes ablaze with fey light.[1a]

During The End Times, the Green Knight removed his helmet at last to reveal himself as Gilles le Breton himself, before slaying Mallobaude, and was quickly coronated once more.[2a]

Source

  • 1 Warhammer Armies: Bretonnia (6th Edition)
    • 1a Page 74
  • 2 Warhammer: Nagash
    • 2a Page 30
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