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Name of the Story: The Knights of the King

Place of Origin: Vale

Summary: There once was a small kingdom, before the founding of Vale and the others. The king ruling this kingdom had 4 main factions under him, which served him for different purposes. There was the King's guard, the GrimmSlayers, the King's Blades, and the Holy knights.

The leaders of his factions were the Four Knights, Ornstein, the leader of the guard, Hawkeye Gough, the leader of the GrimmSlayers, Ciaran, the leader of the Blades, and Artorias the Abysswalker.

These four mighty knights protected the lands surrounding the kingdom. Artorias was said to have walked among the Grimm without being attacked, and walking in the alleged Abyss, a place of emence darkness, with an unbendable will of steel, and was munmatched with a greatsword. Hawkeye was said to be able to down huge Grimm with a single arrow of his greatbow. Ornstein guarded the king's daughter, and has been seen multiple times slicing boulders in half with his lugged spear. Finally, Ciaran, master assassin and leader of the King's Blades, laid waste to the king's human and faunus enemies with her Gold and Dark Silver Tracers.

Unfortunantly, Artorias was corrupted while traversing the Abyss, and sacrificed his life to save his companion, Sif the Great Grey Wolf. Hawkeye Gough was forced into a tower and abandoned, Ciaran was lost in dispair for the loss of Artorias, and Ornstein was abandoned, tricked into protecting an illusion, amd eventually was slain by his friend and partner.

Variation(s) in different cultures: it is said that each of them had silver eyes, and that Artorias was slain by a man after being corrupted to the point of insanity, and that Ciaran was murdered by the same man, to ease her passing.

Impact on Remnant: may have started the story of the Silver Eyed Heroes, or may have been one of the first cases of them.

Notes: heavily, heavily based on Dark Souls