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11 Sir Lancelot is one of the Spectral Knights that Gwendolyn can summon in Tides of Annihilation. He was introduced in the first story trailer on 25 August 2026, which the studio described as his debut, summoned by Gwendolyn to dispatch enemies in spectacular style.
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33 Introduction
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55 The trailer, "Beneath the Veil", was shown during gamescom Opening Night Live. Its story runs from Gwendolyn at her lowest, amid the ash of a ruined London, through Guinevere urging her to harness the power of the fog, to Gwendolyn taking up the sword and learning to fight alongside the spectral knights. Lancelot is the knight the trailer uses to show that last step.
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7+The studio's announcement describes the appearance in a single sentence: the trailer introduces Sir Lancelot, who can be summoned into battle to help dispatch enemies in suitably flashy fashion. That is the whole of the first-party description of him, and it is a description of the summoning system as much as of the character.
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79 That places him in the same system as the rest of the roster. Knights are summoned into a fight through the fog, can be dismissed and swapped mid-combat, and are built into loadouts of four drawn from a larger pool. Official store copy describes that pool as over a dozen Knights of the Round Table, of which only a handful have been named.
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11+What that system looks like in play is much better attested than he is, because the demo that ran at the Chengdu Playtest and at gamescom 2026 is built on it. Knights are called in with the shoulder buttons and their attacks are mixed into Gwendolyn's own strings rather than fired off between them. They do not follow her around as companions; each one appears beside her for the length of an ability and then goes. Four are equipped at once in two pairs, and a pair can be swapped at any point in a combo. Ary Chen has said the shipping game keeps that shape, with two groups of knights, each holding a main knight and a secondary one, and that the point is to let players combine fighting styles rather than settle on a favourite. See Dual Frontline Battle System.
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13+None of the published hands-on sessions names Lancelot among the knights they used, so where he sits in that rotation is unknown. The studio has said it is not ready to share the roster's names or its total count, and store copy still puts the pool at over ten legendary knights.
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915 What Has Not Been Confirmed
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1117 He was introduced very recently and the detail around him is minimal. The studio has not described:
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1319 his weapon, or the element he is associated with, both of which are known for other knights such as Sir Lamorak and Palamedeswhether he is a primary or a secondary knight, or what he contributes in the Partnered Stateany traversal ability, of the kind the playtest knights were used forwhere he sits in the story, or his relationship to Guinevere
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1521 He was not part of the pool available in the Chengdu Playtest of August 2026, which offered Bedivere, Gaheris, Gawain, Kay and Palamedes. Nothing has been said about whether he is playable in the gamescom build.
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1723 The Game and the Legend
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1925 Lancelot is among the best-known knights in the Arthurian cycle, and the studio had previously described its roster as deliberately built around figures who rarely get the spotlight, naming him as one of the defaults it was reaching past. His introduction shows that preference is not absolute. The wider roster still leans toward deeper cuts: Sir Lamorak and Palamedes are both obscure by comparison.
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2127 The name carries a great deal of baggage elsewhere, and none of it has been confirmed here. Tides of Annihilation reinterprets the mythos rather than retelling it, and the studio has said plainly that it is not copying the source one to one. Treat the legend as background the game is free to ignore, not as a guide to what he will do. See Arthurian Legend in Tides of Annihilation.