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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.

The Game's Approach

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.

Confirmed Knights

Team Building

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.

Historical Context

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.

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.

Arthur's Absence

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.

Roster Framing

Eclipse Glow Games has confirmed that more than ten spectral knights are unlockable across the campaign. The exact roster has not been disclosed in full. Producer Kun Fu has said publicly that further names and numbers will be revealed over time, and that the studio is intentionally pacing those announcements so each knight gets a proper reveal rather than appearing in a credits-style list. As a result, the wiki tracks only the knights who have appeared in a trailer, a press demo, or an on-camera dev statement.

Summoning In Practice

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.

Team Building

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.

Adaptation Choices

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.