Enderknights

King Rendor's Enderknights preparing for battle

„*The Enderknights used to protect the land alongside their dragons. That was years ago.*”
— Darlene↑

In the Songs of War series, the **Enderknights** are an independent group of warriors that protect the Overworld against invaders. Enderknights are well known for taming Ender Dragons to ride them in battle.

During and after the Second Great War, the new generation of Enderknights was led by their leader Abbigail, who was the first Enderqueen.

**Notable Enderknights:** King Rendor, Abbigail, Denny, Saxon, Trevor, Allister.

## Lore

Long ago, the Enderknights used to control both the End and the Overworld, with the Enderking's seat of power being in Crown Peak. However, their Overworld territtories were often contended with the Nether, and it is known of at least one occasion in which the Enderknights lost to the Nether, which at the time was led by Pythus' great-grandfather.

### King Rendor's kingdom

#### The rebellion of the people of Ardonia

18 years before the Great War, the people of Ardonia started rebelling to gain independence from the Enderking. After years of rebellion, the Enderking decided to withdraw from Ardonia and to split his former Ardonian territories into six independent kingdoms. Having lost their territories in the Overworld, the Enderknights aim became to protect and aid Ardonia in times of necessity.

#### The Nether Invasion and the Great War

See also: The Great War

When the Nether invaded the Overworld 18 years after the Kingdoms were formed, the Enderknights fought against King Chronos's Nether Army, but they failed to stop it, and an Enderknight fell in battle. When the Voltaris allied with the Nether, they joined an alliance of Humans, Ardoni, Magnorites, Felina and other species to oppose them, but this also couldn't stop the joint forces of the Nether and the Voltaris.

Finally, the Enderknights allied with the partisan group led by Achillean Nestoris and here they started obtaining their first military successes. In Old Voltaria, they won a decisive victory against the Nether forces. This defeat finally forced Chronos to withdraw and the Nether Army fled back into the Nether. The Voltaris would also be definitively defeated in a later battle, in Mt. Velgrin.

### Interregnum

After the Great War, the Enderknights vanished and for about 154 years the throne of the End was left vacant. This would bring about a period of decadence for the End: its population decreased drastically and the few remaining Dragon Eggs were left unhatched.

Some weeks after the first reported Voltaris sighting since the Great War, the future Enderqueen Abbigail found a dragon egg that had been stolen from Etherea by two thieves.

WIP.

## Organization

The Enderknights are led by the **Enderking**, the King of the End, who is chosen by the End. The End expresses its choice through the Endercrown and the Enderblade, which will only glow when the rightful Enderking respectively dons or holds them. An Enderking will not always stay so until their death: if their ability as kings is put into question, they will be deposed and, to gain back the throne, they will need to pass the Ender Trials, a supernatural character test held in a temple on an End Island. According to David R.B., the ender trials were meant to be failed by all who undertook them, and the real way the crown would deem one worthy is the actions they took after failing the trials, whether one gave up or not.

The Enderknights are also chosen by the End, who expresses its choices through an Eye of Ender leading the Enderking towards their knights. Being chosen as Enderknights results in special abilities when interacting with End-related items, such as being able to bear Obsidian Armor and to make Dragon Eggs hatch. Normal Enderknights owe loyalty to their Enderking but, unlike Enderkings, it does not appear that Enderknights can be deposed (rather, it's up to their Enderking to punish them for their misdeeds).

## Trivia

* An Enderknight first appeared in the Black Plasma Studio animation The Book of Enchantment, where he served as the main antagonist. Like several other characters, he was placed into animations as an easter egg for Songs of War.
* Enderknights are humans chosen according to unknown criteria.(But Abbigail usually uses the end eye to choose)
* Enderknights are one of the most skilled fighters in ardoni.