Totaly cheesy, but i'm sure everyone has his/her favorite. I like Gawaine. he is boistrous, strong and a great fighter. He is funny to me because he is very Brazen in his wenching and Loves the ladies. HHAHAH Not very religious I'm sure. But a lot of fun.
also... I really Admired Palomydes. he was Tristram's traditional enemy, but was a foreigner making his reputation a good one( hard to do), and was a brilliant fighter( Maybe in the ireland tournament he was inspired though because of Isoulde), and because He was also a great Lover. And Pure. He never consumated with Isoulde that we know of( unless he forced her while he had her kidnapped), but from meeting him until Camlann, he never seems to give up crying for her and cursing his life. very true lover. ( sad life though).

My favorite when i was young was Tristram. he was A brilliant fighter. As good AS Lancelot on foot( not at jousting though!). Plus he was a great romantic like lancelot that would give up anything, even honor, for his love. Romantic, huh? ;) But I always justified his adultery because Mark was a crafty Punk that tricked Tristaram, and Isoulde and Tristram were already in love when mark demanded her. Which leads me to my next favorite charectaristic of Tristram's that I admire( even though it sounds wierd) Loyalty to lORD. Yes he diddled the Kings wife but in every other way obeyed him perfectly. he even naively fetched Isoulde for Mark to Marry thinking he could master his Passions and do his duty.What a fool. Hasn't he read a tragedy before. Everything about Love ends in tears. Thats why my Knights are gonna start marrying for cash. 8). But I decided that I had been too hard on poor Lancelot. i used to despise him but guess what? Now that I am an Old man myself and seen a bit more of life ten when I first picked up Arthurian literature, I truly can say... there is no such thing as black and white! Yes it's all gray.

these are my three favorites. But In looking at them I would have to say that out of them all... Palomydes win's. Theres just something about him I like. not to mention in every fight he seems to be on the right side, meaning Arthurs side. Until the breaking of the table where he follows Lancelot. I think that is understandable though given his own feelings on forbidden love. anyway.... any one else have a thought?

My favourite knight is Percivale, as shown in John Boorman's Excalibur, and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parsifal.

The innocent idiotic knight who often does very un-knightly things (which I used to comic effect many times in my first campaign), and yet is pure enough to reach the Grail.

Sir Gareth of Orkney!

I always got the impression that Gareth wasn't just the extremely moral knight, he seemed like a really nice bloke. I also find it easy to relate to him - he gets angry like anyone else, but he channels it positively; he gets lustful towards his wife-to-be but acts appropriately. He seems to me like the knight one would be most able to go to the pub with and have a drink.

I've always like Gareth too, for similar reasons.

Another favourite knight (not THE favourite, but one I really enjoy): Agravaine. I love playing him as GM. He can really get up the player's noses :)

Ok, confession time, I've yet to read the second volume of Morte D'Arthur  :-[

But from the first volume, I think I enjoyed the story of Tristram most. Its a real tragedy, doomed from the start, with many twists and turns on the way. When I get around to finishing the second volume, I'll come back and update here!

From the GPC, the knight I've enjoyed running as a GM so far has to be Sir Brastias. A real rivalry between him and our players developed after they assisted Merlin once, ending up with them accusing each other of being liars in court. It will not be a good day the next time they meet...

Gareth nearly made my list as well. I always thought... Hey... Why was he not pure enough or noble enough to go on the Grail quest? I certainly deem him as worthy as Sir BORS. Though I guess the books portray Bors as very religious all the Time( pious I mean).

Sir Gareth. He beat Lancelot out in the nobility department, and was a young hero with such great potential who told Gawain where to stick the vendetta against Sir Lamorak. Lancelot accidentally killing him was a major tear-jerker.

My favourite knight is Percivale, as shown in John Boorman's Excalibur.


This Percival is definately my favorite as well as he shows that being a great knight is about doing the right things and having the heart in the right place and not about being nobleborn or the best fighter or anything.

After reading Le Morte D'Arthur I really like Lamorak more than the other "great knights" as he's the most sane! Gawain is a hothead, Lancelot has too many principles and Tristram feels like he belongs in his own story.

And maybe more unusually I've always had Merlin as one of my favorites as he's one of the biggest most tragic heroes of the Arthur legends.

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Who loves Boormans Excalibur movie.

I love Excalibur. What I am expecting in the next few years is for someone to remake it. for some reason it seems like remakes are hot. We will see I guess. Maybe Liam neeson will reprise his role as gawaine? :)

Sir Dinadan ;D
The only knight who didn't always just rush into battle and had a sense of humor.

Followed by Sir Owain

Then Sir Gareth and Sir Gawain

Sir Gawain, the more chivalrous and solar knight is my preferred by far, followed by Kay.

Call me various names, but Sir Kay is one of my favorites. Especially when you realize that he becomes less and less important as you read the various renditions. At first, he was the god, then Gawaine, then Lancelot, then Percival. Just depend upon which version you like best.

I love Kay too. His personality as presented in Pendragon is fun to play. Plus, you get to be scathing with the player-knights, and watch them squirm.

I think my favourite was Lamorak. That guy had cojones!

Lamorack! He and Tristram were probably the second best fighters behind Lancelot. Lamorack is certainly Very chivalrous and Rarely loses his cool. Good choice! :)

I will totally go against the flow here and say Lancelot. What I really like about him is that he is really good and really bad at the same time. He is seen as the best of the best and yet, he ends up in an impossible situation that can only go wrong and for all the great things he did (or could have done), he really is instrumental to the downfall of Camelot. The dilemna he lives his whole life (loyalty to Arthur or love to Guenever) and his inability to clearly choose screw him up real good in the end.

Honestly, if Lancelot didn't have his flaws and was only a paragon, he would be boring as a character. When both facets are put together, he really shine and makes him either loved or hated by people.

I think my favorite is Mordred or King Mark... both have potential to go either way, it's obvious, and both are good men gone bad...

Hmmmm... Tough question. ;)

Others that do receive consideration are: Lamorak de Gales, Dynadan, Palomides and Ector de Maris. :)

Well, I've always liked Sirs Tristram and Dinadan...two guys always sticking it to The Man. And I always thought Ywain was an interesting character: weird home life (Morgan AND Uriens? Ugh) but ends up with this way-cool sidekick, the Lion. Also, Sir Dagonet, funnyman or jester, depending on your point of view...so you can see why 2004's movie, King Arthur (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349683/), was such a crushing disappointment. Among other reasons.

Suzanne

Sir Huon - he was touched my something & remained true to his Pagan roots.

Thought I'd have a common response, but Tristram. Malory's Mort d'Arthur's Book of Tristram made the book for me.
Hi is ever victorious! Even against Lancealot, knowing Lancealot is his superior, he chooses to admit defeat instead of face the adversary he loves and respect. Victory in defeat!

I am going to have to go with Gawaine, here, too.

A man's man, a knight who wins on the battlefield and with the ladies. Not perfect, but riven with some faults, which he acknowledges and tries to amend. Utterly loyal to his Kin and King. Pity about the Pellinore affair, though. *Goes and rewrites the scene so that Pellinore dies in a honorable duel against Gawaine, with the other brothers just as non-participating witnesses.* There! Now I can be a happy Gawain fanboy again! :)

Of course, Gawain benefits from the fact that my introduction to Arthuriana was Prince Valiant comics, where Gawain was simply just awesome. Funny, charming, witty and deadly. Did I mention handsome? Alright. Enough gushing about Gawaine.

I am pretty sure I'd enjoy Sir Dinadan, too, based on what I have heard of him. Alas, I have not read enough to really tell.

My favourite is Sir Balin. Why? In a way he's a very tragic and contradictory character.

He killed a relative of King Arthur's, he is poor and yet manages to convince people at the court that he is a virtuous knight. After the "moment of glory" where he proofs that he is a man of good qualities (Malory, 2. book, I think), his life is going downhill. He is banned from the court after killing the (or a) Lady of the Lake right in front of King Arthur (!) (for she killed his mother) and eventually he and his brother kill each other unknowingly. Especially the last part, the death of the two brothers Balin and Balan by the hands of the other is to me a very sad and tragic end.

I probably would not like to meet him personally as he is a man of rash decisions but I like the concept of his story.

I would have to break my answer down for clarity. My favourite knight in literature is Sir Gawaine, particularly in Arthur Rex (I love that book!). I agree with the Lady of the Lake's take on Gawain; "To be more than you is to be tragic, to be less is farcical." On film my favourite of Arthur's knights is Robert Taylor's Lancelot, though I DETEST almost every other version of the French import. For gaming Agravaine is far and away my favourite. I LOVE running him as an NPC. I also love Kay. My take on Kay as an NPC is lifted, with grateful thanks, from Karr's wonderful Idyls of the Queen.

I'm very surprise... I think Perceval more popular !

My favorite knight is Sir Bohort de Gaunes and I very like Sir Perceval le Gallois. Bohort because he finish the Grail Quest with difficulty, he must make sacrifice and his path is dolorous. He's not perfect like Galaad or innocent like Perceval, he must "fight" and make abnegation to achieve the Grail Quest... and he's the witness of the quest (the historian)
On Perceval, I like him because he's like a child, innocent, "loving" nature...

I think I would be Perceval but I know I couldn't... My only hope is to be like Bohort !

Sorry for my english, I'm always French

Caball

PS Happy new year !

Okay, so I'm going to go with a very minor Knight and say Sagramor le Desirous. I'll let ya'll try and figure out why.

King Pellinore, Heroic, noble and idiotic! "My kingdom? My sons! Damn them, I want my Beast!" Read TH White for a wonderfull Pellinore.

But Sagremore is a good on too.

Okay, so I'm going to go with a very minor Knight and say Sagramor le Desirous. I'll let ya'll try and figure out why.


Sagramore is excellent. A greek knight ( Byzantium?) that is royalty (?) and leaves to show up at arthurs court because he heard its where all the best knights are and he wants to show that he is also a very great knight. He is probably the most ENERGETIC knight around next to Lancelot. He is always on some quest, and can always be found on the road. Good choice. ;)

Okay, so I'm going to go with a very minor Knight and say Sagramor le Desirous. I'll let ya'll try and figure out why.


Sagramore is excellent. A greek knight ( Byzantium?) that is royalty (?) and leaves to show up at arthurs court because he heard its where all the best knights are and he wants to show that he is also a very great knight. He is probably the most ENERGETIC knight around next to Lancelot. He is always on some quest, and can always be found on the road. Good choice. ;)


You, good Sir Knight, get a check for awareness and intrigue!

hahah. well thank you!!