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<\/a><\/div>\nTasked with finding the two-days-overdue Sir Gawain<\/b>, Galahad discovers him being set upon by ruffians in the employ of the Knight of the Griffin, a dastardly character who hates King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Galahad proceeds to confront the Knight himself, where we find that he is based on Sir Turquine<\/b>, a villainous knight who had both the knight-summoning bell and tree full of defeated knights’ shields as seen above, but who critically hated Lancelot, Galahads father<\/i>, and battled knights as part of a long-term plan to kill him, whereas the Knight of the Griffin is more of an anti-Knights of the Round Table guy.<\/p>\n Thanks to an exposure to a Choose Your Own Adventure version of this story in my youth, I think I have an inflated sense of how iconic the tree of shields is, but I love it. It’s very ominous! <\/p>\n The Knight of the Griffin is also aided and abetted by his wife, Morgana le Fay, who hoodwinks knights into getting her a drink of water and then swaps their good swords for ones that will shatter during the cut and thrust of knightly combat. This is not a part of Sir Turquine’s story – though Morgan le Fay has plenty of evil knights in her roster of exes, she and Turquine don’t seem to have been an item.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n