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1-The Knights of the Round Table are the legendary warriors of Arthurian mythology who form the basis of the spectral knight system in Tides of Annihilation. Rather than featuring Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere as central figures, the game intentionally spotlights lesser-known members of the Round Table.
1+The Knights of the Round Table are the legendary warriors of Arthurian myth who form the basis of the Spectral Knights system in Tides of Annihilation. Gwendolyn summons them through the gray fog that followed the invasion, and official material says the finished game lets the player command a band of over ten legendary knights. Five of them were playable in the build shown in August 2026.
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3-The Game's Approach
3+The Playtest Roster
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5-Over 10 spectral knights are unlockable throughout the game, each based on a figure from Arthurian tradition. The developers have described a deliberate strategy of foregrounding obscure knights rather than the famous ones. This gives the game room to reinterpret these characters without contradicting widely known stories.
5+The August 2026 build fielded five knights. The producer walked through the pool himself and assigned each one a role, so this is the most solid roster information released to date. It is a slice of the finished roster rather than the whole of it.
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7-Confirmed Knights
7+KnightSlotConfirmed roleBediverePrimaryScythe and fire. Ground offence, with long grounded combo strings and wide area attacks. A meter fills as he fights and powers a finisher that punishes enemies whose poise has been broken.GaherisPrimaryWind. Feather stacks that cash out on the fifth hit, cyclones that lift enemies into the air, and a dodge bonus for Gwendolyn. Outside combat his arrows create ziplines and release platforms.GawainSecondaryScatters enemy formations, then stays on the field drawing enemy attention. Also has a blink to a target at mid range that extends combo control.KaySecondarySlows enemy attacks with a clock-like field, lengthening their startup so moves that come out too fast to react to become readable.PalamedesEitherFire. The one knight confirmed to work in both slots, with a different kit in each: charged guard-breaking attacks and a parry as a primary, a thrown weapon plus block and precise parry as a secondary. Outside combat he breaks walls, lifts heavy objects and repositions pillars.
8+Loadout Structure
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9-ItemDescriptionSir Lamorak (lightning/electrical)One of the strongest knights in legend. Rival of Gawain. Killed by treachery.Palamedes (fire)A Saracen knight who converted to Christianity. Well-known jouster. Pursued the Questing Beast.An unnamed knight with ice-based attacks capable of launching enemies airborne for aerial combosIdentity unconfirmed
10+ElementDetailPoolFive knights were selectable in the August 2026 playtest build.EquippedFour at a time, arranged as two primary and two secondary.SwitchingThe player can switch between the pairs at any point during a fight.Move countsA primary knight carries a dozen or more attack moves. A secondary carries two.SummoningKnights can be called in the middle of a combo, so their moves extend a chain the player has already started.Full rosterOfficial material describes commanding a band of over ten legendary knights in the finished game.
10-Team Building
11+Other Confirmed Knights
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12-Players select four knights organized into two pairs and swap between pairs during combat. Building a team means weighing elemental coverage, combat range (melee vs. ranged), and Partnered State synergies. Pairing a lightning melee knight with a fire ranged knight, for example, creates different tactical options than two melee knights of the same element.
13+KnightStatusSir LamorakSpear and red lightning. Official demo copy describes him as a former opponent of Gwendolyn's who fights at her side in the otherworld beyond London. He was not in the August 2026 playtest pool.An unnamed knight with ice attacksEarly footage shows ice attacks that launch enemies into the air for aerial combos. The knight's identity has never been revealed.
14+Knights Outside Combat
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14-Historical Context
16+The knights are not only a combat system. In the playtest build they were also the answer to obstacles: an arrow fired to release a platform or to string a zipline over a gap too wide to jump, a wall broken or a statue lifted so it could be climbed. The museum level's environmental puzzles were built around matching the right knight to the right obstacle, which gives the roster a second axis beyond damage and support.
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16-The Round Table as a concept appears across centuries of literature, from Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century histories to Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) to Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1859). Different sources list different members. The total number of knights varies wildly, from a dozen to over 150 depending on the source. Common members include Lancelot, Gawain, Percival, Galahad, Tristan, Kay, Bedivere, and Bors.
18+Grail Shards
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18-The game draws from deeper cuts in this tradition. Sir Lamorak, for instance, is prominent in the Prose Tristan and the Post-Vulgate Cycle but barely known outside Arthurian scholarship. Palamedes appears in Italian and French romances but has almost no presence in modern Arthurian pop culture. By selecting these lesser-known figures, the developers can tell original stories rather than retread familiar ground.
20+The in-game lore glossary states that all of the Knights of the Round Table hold Grail Shards, and that collecting those shards is what lets Gwendolyn manipulate the fog. That ties the roster directly to the main objective rather than leaving the knights as a combat feature standing apart from the story.
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20-Arthur's Absence
22+Summoning in Practice
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22-King Arthur himself has not been shown as a spectral knight or a character in the game. Whether he appears in some other capacity, or whether his absence is a deliberate narrative choice, is not yet clear.
24+Knights do not appear from a menu. Gwendolyn channels them through the mysterious gray fog that followed the invasion, pulling each one's spectral form onto the battlefield for a stretch of combat before dismissing them. Each knight has a distinct fighting style, elemental affinity, and Partnered State merge effect that changes how Gwendolyn moves and attacks while the merge is active.
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24-Roster Framing
26+Team Building
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26-The official store description states that the knightly combat system lets the player command a band of over ten legendary knights, each bringing its own skills and abilities. It does not say how or when each knight joins, so treat the exact unlock structure as unconfirmed. The full roster has not been disclosed, and no official statement has set out a schedule for revealing the remaining names. As a result, the wiki tracks only the knights who have appeared in a trailer, a press demo, or an on-camera dev statement.
28+Loadouts are organised around the Dual Frontline Battle System. Two pairs of knights, four in total, are taken into a fight, and the choice of pairing is one of the few persistent decisions in a system that otherwise prizes mid-fight flexibility. Elemental coverage, melee against ranged balance, and which Partnered State you want available are the main axes.
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28-Summoning In Practice
30+The August build produced concrete examples of that logic. Palamedes is deliberately sluggish as a primary, so pairing him with Kay to slow the enemy is what lets his charges land. Bedivere adds heavy damage against an enemy whose poise is broken, so sending Palamedes in first to strip poise turns two knights into one combination. The producer has said that on the higher difficulty the fight turns on understanding and exploiting each knight's particular characteristic rather than on raw combo pressure, which is where this kind of pairing starts to matter.
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30-Knights do not appear from a menu. Gwendolyn channels them through the mysterious gray fog that followed the invasion, pulling each one's spectral form onto the battlefield for a stretch of combat before dismissing them. Each knight has a distinct fighting style, elemental affinity, and Partnered State merge effect that changes how Gwendolyn moves and attacks while the merge is active.
32+The Game's Approach to the Legend
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32-Team Building
34+The studio has said its earliest roster picks deliberately avoided Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere in favour of figures without a fixed pop-culture version. Lamorak and Palamedes are both deep cuts: Lamorak is prominent in the Prose Tristan and the Post-Vulgate material and barely known outside Arthurian scholarship, and Palamedes appears in Italian and French romances with almost no presence in modern Arthurian pop culture. The playtest pool then put Gawain, Kay and Bedivere alongside them, three of the most familiar names in the tradition, so the roster mixes household names with obscure ones rather than avoiding the famous ones outright.
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34-Loadouts are organized around the Dual Frontline Battle System. Two pairs of knights, four total, are taken into a fight. The choice of pairing is one of the few persistent decisions in a system that otherwise prizes mid-fight flexibility. Elemental coverage, melee versus ranged balance, and which Partnered State you want available are the main axes. Examples surfaced in developer commentary include pairing a lightning melee knight with a fire ranged knight for a dual-element burst loadout, or pairing two melee knights of the same element for sustained imbuing.
36+What has not changed is the relationship to the source. The game director has said the team is not copying the legend one to one and will have its own interpretation and narrative, and the producer has said the action system was designed first, with the knights, the world and the art built afterwards to fit it. Legend material on this wiki is background for a name, never in-game backstory. The wider treatment is covered on Arthurian Legend in Tides of Annihilation.
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36-Adaptation Choices
38+Historical Context
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38-Rather than centering Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere, the studio has deliberately spotlighted less-famous figures from the Round Table tradition. Sir Lamorak and Palamedes are both deep cuts from the Arthurian canon, and the game treats them as fully realized combat companions rather than background references. This gives the writers room to reinterpret the characters without colliding with widely known versions of the more famous knights.
40+The Round Table as a concept appears across centuries of literature, from Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century histories to Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in 1485 to Tennyson's Idylls of the King in 1859. Different sources list different members, and the total number of knights varies wildly, from a dozen to over 150 depending on the source. Common members include Lancelot, Gawain, Percival, Galahad, Tristan, Kay and Bedivere. That variance is part of why the tradition suits a game roster: there has never been a single canonical list to contradict.
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42+Arthur's Absence
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44+King Arthur himself has not been shown as a summonable knight or as a character in the game. Whether he appears in some other capacity, or whether his absence is a deliberate narrative choice, is not yet clear.
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46+Roster Framing
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48+The official store description states that the knightly combat system lets the player command a band of over ten legendary knights, each bringing its own skills and abilities. It does not say how or when each knight joins, so the unlock structure remains unconfirmed. The full roster has not been disclosed and no official statement has set out a schedule for revealing the remaining names. This wiki tracks only the knights who have appeared in a trailer, a playable build, or an on-camera developer statement. See Spectral Knights for how the summoning works in combat and Colossal Knights for the oversized variants used in set-piece encounters.