Knight

Paladin Highlord of Swordhaven

 Biography

Born to an aristocrat family in Swordhaven, he was destined to be a nobleman once. Nobles in Swordhaven would usually fulfill some high position on King Alteon's court. But this boy insisted in being an knight from early age. Hence his family; and eventually everyone else called him Knight.

His parents got him on knight training with Rolith of the Pactagonal Knights and sir Romero of the Royal Guard. The young knight was talented indeed and was the king's youngest knight at the time that Sepulchure invaded Swordhaven.

Knight survived the assault and had been backing up Artix Krieger in the city slaying undead and keeping the civilian buildings clear until the Hero arrived. The might and cheerful manners of the paladin fulfilled the young knight with awe and dreams of becoming a paladin himself one day.

#### After the Undead Assault

When peace came back to Swordhaven, at the cost of Alteon's health, young knight did his best even more to become a valliant knight of Swordhaven.

The king was impressed and send him as the courts official competitor to the yearly tournament in Swordhaven City. Battling 24 competitors; Knight won the torunament gloriously. Gjappy, who happened to be there congratulated the new champion and predicted he would be the champion for quite a while. But that he would also have to leave the city to fulfill his dreams and destiny.

As the king grew more and more sick, the nobles, knights and paladins on the court grew uneasy and intrigue was brewing. Platinum Lady noticed that the young knight was very susceptible to this and introduced him to Artix Krieger once more and arranged a paladin training for him in Lightguard. Hence securing his loyalty to Swordhaven and nullifying Knights hesitation to leave the city.

#### Becoming a Paladin

Paladin training went well for the young knight, although he was not really having any magic skills or talents for it. Which hindered his grades in the light magic schooling quite a lot. A paladin loremaster that came around to check on this lack of magic abilities could not find anything out of normal however.

At the assault on Lightguard and the arrival of Zee the Legend, Knight was outside the keep actually training in Doomwood. He got lost there alone and was swiftly surrounded by a lot of undead. Knight fought bravely but the masses of undead just overran him at some point, leaving him bleeding out under a bush that gave him at least some cover.

#### Nephilim

When the Hero had stepped into Doomwood to look for Artix the undead got distracted and some angels ventured through to pick up survivors or souls of the dead. Bido in his task as angel of dead was actually tasked to collect the souls for the Archangel of Death before anyone could capture them.

But it was him that found the dying Knight; and had to decide if he'd either let the young knight live or collect his soul in some minutes. Knight looked at Bido with a glance that struck the angel and he decided to save the knight. But he did not entirely know how, angels of death aren't really thought to save lives after all. Not knowing some other remedy, Bido summoned a small cup and made a small cut in his arm. He let his angelic blood pour in the cup and gave it to Knight to drink believing in it's celestial powers. Then he healed himself.

Knight drank what was inside the cup without even knowing too much, he was barely by conscience. But it healed him instantly, yet it felt like it set his insides on fire. He yelled and twitched much to the fear of Bido. But eventually he sank to the floor again and went uncosnicious. Bido then picked him up secretly brought Knight to Gjappy in the City of the Dawn.

Being the best healer known, Gjappy would certainly be able to save Knight. Which he did, but not without consequences for both Knight and Bido.

When brought in at Gjappy, he examined Knight fully before covering him again and got some other angelic healers. They discussed with eachother and Gjappy concluded that with the angelic blood in his veins, Knight had become a superhuman being, close to what the angels knew as being Nephilim. When that word was uttered however, the angelic healers backed off from Knight. The rumor spread in the City of the Dawn that there was a Nephilim in the city; within two days a crowd had gathered in front of the house Knight was recovering in. They demanded the Nephilim to be handed to them because they should not exist as they were fallen spawn.

When they seized the house and forced their way in they actually knocked out Bido. To defend himself, Knight quickly grabbed Bido's blade and fended off the masses until Gjappy teleported him away from there.

#### Paladin Highlord

The next moment Knight found himself back in Doomwood again, holding Ragnarok Blade. A bit confused but not knowing better Knight headed back for Lightguard.

Coming there he found that the keep had been under siege and almost was taken over by the undead. They were still repairing the damage, but seeing an actually surviving paladin cheered everyone up. The paladins were even amazed by Knights new sword and the new strenght he displayed in helping the order.

After some weeks of helping; the Highlord of Lightguard keep summoned Knight and told him of the passing of the Paladin Highlord that was assigned to Swordhaven. In an incident revolving an red paladin he had been killed; the commander offered Knight to take over the position. They really needed a new Paladin Highlord at Swordhaven since the king had died and things really had gone into disarray.

So Knight traveled to Swordhaven and have been on active duty there ever since, being the Paladin Highlord of the local paladins in Swordhaven; but also trainer and lord commander of new knight recruits. When Swordhaven fell to the Infernals, Knight evacuated the city with his trainees rather than risking their lives to a foe stronger than them.

This sadly meant he did lose contact with the Royal family of Swordhaven and also with his co-paladins like Platinum Lady. Knight stationed his trainees at the keep of the Paladin Order and then went on a search to find out what happened to Swordhaven and where the Royal Family went; a quest he is currently on.

## Fun Facts

* Likes Knights in real life too.
* Is not really aware of the true extend of his angelic powers.
* His 'Nephilim' title implies his character is fallen angel spawn, but he is actually super-human.
* Is the only person that can wield the Ragnarok blade Bido was guarding.

## Real life story

Knight is a player from Germany that has played AQWorlds since 2012.