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The Remnant Knights
"Protect the innocent, Survive the Trials, Serve Remnant." — Creed of the Remnant Knights
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A separate clandestine yet powerful Order forged from the most trustworthy and formidable warriors around Remnant who have been secretly gathered by The King of Vale and The Wizard with the intention to fight a shadow war against the forces of the Dark Queen, her Inner Circle and the Grimm. Alongside the other Guardians of Remnant under the leadership of Ozpin, they counter the forces of darkness at every turn while keeping certain dangerous secrets away from Remnant's populace at large, such as the existence of the Grimm Queen and the Relics.
In General
- Badass Creed: Protect the innocent, Survive the Trials, Serve Remnant.
- Big Fancy Castle: Tintagel, the massive fortress headquarters of the Knight Order. Its true location was so secretive (and classified) that only a handful of trusted individuals around Remnant knows where it actually is. Because of its extreme importance, all Remnant Knights are also required to enact Eclipse Protocol to ensure that no one outside of their Order accidentally discovers Tintagel's location.
- Cool Sword: Most of the Remnant Knights possess these as their primary weapon of choice. The Knight Castellans each possess a legendary blade as their weapon and sword of office.
- Demon Slaying: Make that Grimm-slaying.
- Due to the Dead: Every Remnant Knight that has fallen in performing their duty had their name (both Knight and real name) inscribed on the Wall of Valor within Tintagel.
- Godzilla Threshold: When the situation on Remnant ever reaches this trope, the Knight Order still has one last card to play: The Vault of Avalon.
- Meaningful Name: Each Remnant Knight would be given a new name upon their knighthood, which can include certain traits like their skills, abilities, or even their appearance. For example, Sharp Strike is given that aforementioned name due to his impressive dual-wielding sword skills.
- Noodle Incident: Two instances known so far.
- How one of the four Relics was very nearly stolen by Salem's Sin Commanders and the Guardians of Remnant work together with the Remnant Knights to get it back successfully.
- How exactly a battle between Salem's agents and the Guardians of Remnant resulted in one of the Relics' mountain temples being completely destroyed is left ambiguous.
- Powered Armor: The Aegis armor suits worn by the Remnant Knights are crafted from both advanced and mystical technologies long lost to Remnant. No two suits were the same, and each was tailored specifically to the Knight himself or herself.
- Real After All: To the people of Remnant, the Remnant Knights are commonly seen as the figures of legends and myths. To the highest levels of the Kingdoms' Councils and the Guardians of Remnant, only they are entrusted with the information that the Knight Order exists.
- Seers: The Prognosticators, a specialist unit of the Knight Order operate this way, assisting the Remnant Knights in battle as well as using their abilities to predict the location and severity of Grimm incursions.
- Silver Bullet: Certain Remnant Knights have a special bullet that was intricately engraved with tiny runes and script that are anathema to any creatures of Grimm. Each specially-crafted round was believed to contain a tiny fragment of Silver Eye energy that was said to be derived from the eyes of the honorable Grand Knight Master Lord Emmanuel himself.
- Secret-Keeper: The Knight Order has a lot of secrets, and many of them could have catastrophic consequences if known to the world of Remnant at large. For example, after a Noodle Incident in which involves one of the four Relics (later revealed to the Lamp of Knowledge) was very nearly stolen by Salem's Sin Commanders; Ozpin entrusted the said Relic to the Remnant Knights who brought it back to Tintagel for it to be properly protected since the Relic's mountain temple was sadly destroyed in a previous battle.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: The Remnant Knights have fought a silent shadow war against the Grimm Mistress and her associates ever since their founding alongside the other Guardians of Remnant, and their greatest victories (or defeats, if any) will never be known to the world of Remnant at large.
The Round Table — Knight Order High Command
Seraph Pendragon (Knight of Angels)
Seraph Pendragon
Chosen Voice Actor: Peter Cullen
Debut: Chapter 50: The Beacon Lights Again Part I: Meetings
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The current Grand Knight Master of the Remnant Knights.
- Ancestral Weapon: Excalibrus was the legendary sword given to the first Grand Knight Master of the Remnant Knights by the King of Vale at the founding of their knightly order.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: You have to be one in order to lead the Remnant Knights.
- BFS: Wields a huge one named Excalibrus, which is both his sword of office and personal weapon.
- The Leader: Of an entire secret Order of powerful warrior Knights.
- Meaningful Name: Seraphs are considered the highest order of Angels in the Bible, and Pendragon is the second name of King Arthur.
Argentius (Knight of Silver)
Argentius
Chosen Voice Actor: Ewan McGregor
Debut: Chapter 49: Love in the Air
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A dual scythe-wielding Remnant Knight with Silver Eyes within the Knight Order, in addition to being both Sharp Strike's master and most recently, Ruby's mentor. He is also Soul Seer's elder brother.
- Big Brother Instinct: Being Soul Seer's elder brother by birth and blood, Argentius is this to his younger sister.
- Blow You Away: Argentius's semblance is wind-based, nicknamed Vortex Ascension, and he can literally become the vortex which is also the eye of the storm. In terms of what it does, the wind barrier is an invisible wall of trampoline that pushes back anyone who tries to get close, and he can also unleash a spinning tornado attack with scythe blades, wiping out large masses of opponents at one go.
- Impossibly Cool Weapon: His personal weapon, Iconoclast, essentially is a twin-scythe, longsword, and a high-caliber double-barrelled assault rifle fused into one.
- Mentor Archetype: He is not only Sharp Strike's master but also the teacher to a number of other Remnant Knights.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Argentius was mentioned to be such an individual among those Remnant Knights who sit at The Round Table when making decisions.
- Student–Master Team: He forms one with Grand Knight Master Lord Emmanuel as the student, and as the master to Sharp Strike.
Soul Seer (Knight of Seers)
Soul Seer
Chosen Voice Actor: Renee Faia
Debut: Chapter 49: Love in the Air
Artwork by manu-chann
Chief Prognosticator within the Knight Order. She supervises the training of other mages and prognosticators who assist the Remnant Knights in their battles against the Grimm and other threats during their missions throughout Remnant. She is also Argentius's younger sister.
- Combat Clairvoyance: Her Semblance. However, she can only see a number of possible futures and not the one that actually happens and requires intense concentration to divine the most likely outcomes.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Soul Seer's breathtakingly beautiful, as seen from her image picture. Her brother Argentius had even once mentioned that in the past she was the beauty of their hometown.
- Ms. Fanservice: Another unintentional example. Like other females in the world of RWBY, Soul Seer's beauty and grace are stunning, to say the least. A buxom chest in addition to a curvaceous and exceptional figure, with very long platinum blonde hair and golden eyes, causes most attention to be directed towards her despite the fact she was often seen in conservative outfits.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: In Chapter 86, she vaguely mentions that she can feel something significant is going to happen soon in the war against Salem.
- Sword and Sorcerer: Fulfills the "Sorcerer" part with her older brother Argentius.
Forge Smith (Knight of Iron)
Forge Smith
Chosen Voice Actor: Piotr Michael
Debut: Chapter 50: The Beacon Lights Again Part I: Meetings
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Forgemaster within the Knight Order. He oversees the operations of the main forge within Tintagel which churns out armor and weapons for the Remnant Knights. Wielder of the mighty warhammer named Mjolnira.
- Cool Mask: His knight helmet resembles a Grimm Goliath.
- The Big Guy: He's easily the biggest Remnant Knight seen thus far in the fanfic, wearing heavily-plated armor and wielding a huge warhammer.
- I Call It "Vera": He named his personal weapon Mjolnira.
Merlinus
Senior Advisor to the Knight Order's Round Table.
- The Confidant: He knows a lot of secrets within the Knight Order.
- Meaningful Name: His name is similar to a certain mythical wizard of Arthurian Legend.
- Old Retainer: He functions as an advisor to the previous Grand Masters of the Remnant Knights and the current Lord Seraph Pendragon.
The Knight Errants
Sharp Strike
Sharp Strike (Shen Tian Long)
Chosen Voice Actor: Troy Baker
Debut: Chapter 42: Honor of the White Fang
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A Knight Errant with a mysterious past that was assigned by the Knight Order to join Team Beacon. Being one of the few squires personally trained and mentored by Argentius, he was considered one of the best sword users the Order has ever seen in their long history. His real identity is Shen Tian Long, the biological son of Huo Hong Long and Fei Lan Feng of the Promethean Tribe of Himawari.
- Audience Surrogate: Most of the scenes in Destiny of Remnant involving the Remnant Knights are seen from his perspective.
- Badass Biker: Oh yes. He rides on a personally-customized transformable motorcycle that even Yang would envy.
- Badass Cape: Wears one around his shoulders that's midnight-blue in colour.
- Big Damn Heroes: He had a couple of these moments.
- He saved Ruby and several members of Team Beacon in Chapter 43 from a White Fang recon group tasked with their capture and elimination.
- He stepped in to save the Summer Maiden Heliosia Ainea from having her powers stolen by Thorn in Chapter 76.
- Blue Is Heroic: His personal Aegis armor suit is gunmetal-grey with blue highlights.
- The Cameo: He was previously mentioned in a few scenes long before his eventual appearance, such as a blurry figure in Chapter 33 and mentioned within a secret conversation in Chapter 39.
- Character Tics: A few. When he's deep in thought, Sharp Strike always has one finger resting underneath his chin.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Became very good friends with Heliosia, when they were very young children.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: Heavily implied because he gave Heliosia (who later became the Summer Maiden) a necklace that was part of a paired set.
- Collector of the Strange: Keeps a number of interesting trinkets on his belt, each having its own story to tell such as his previous victories or experiences he wished to remember despite them taking place in the past.
- Cool Sword: Has three of them; Hong Long, Lan Feng, and a mysterious third relic sword.
- Cultured Warrior: His mentors (including Argentius and Soul Seer) within the Knight Order made sure to tutor him on a wide variety of subjects, and he's often found to be either reading or writing down his observations in a personal journal.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Salem had her four disciples butcher the tribe, both as a team building exercise and to avenge herself upon the tribe for perceived wrongs.
- Dual Wielding: Fights with his twin gunswords Hong Long and Lan Feng this way.
- Elemental Weapon: Thanks to Dust, his pair of longswords Hong Long and Lan Feng can coat themselves in flames and ice respectively.
- Flaming Sword: Hong Long, one of his longswords can light itself up in flames during battle with Red Dust.
- Fish out of Water: When Sharp Strike was assigned by the Knight Order to join Team Beacon, he certainly feels that way at first. However, he soon began to gradually fit in with the various members within the Super Team.
- Genocide Survivor: Sharp Strike, who is actually Shen Tian Long, is the last known survivor of the Promethean Tribe of Himawari.
- Heroic Build: He's most definitely possessed a rather muscular build, as noticed by a number of Team Beacon members and even the Maidens themselves.
- I Call It "Vera": Sharp Strike's weapons are named the following;
- His master-crafted longswords are named Hong Long (Red) and Land Feng (Blue)
- His custom revolver is named Vanquisher.
- The name of his third relic sword, which was of clear Promethean forging, hasn't been revealed yet however.
- Master Swordsman: He had the honor of being one of the best, if not the best, swordsmen within the Knight Order.
- Meaningful Name: Sharp Strike earned his knight name for his incredibly swift and powerful blade blows in battle.
- Mix-and-Match Weapon: Hong Long and Lan Feng are actually master-crafted longswords with multi-chamber revolvers built into their hilts.
- Mysterious Past: Sharp Strike has a past so obscured that only the highest levels of the Knight Order possibly even knew the truth about him. From the few clues scattered throughout the fanfic Chapters, it’s certainly building towards a dangerous revelation. See The Reveal below.
- Super-Speed: His personal Semblance allows him to fight at abnormally high speeds, which makes him a deadly opponent with his twin longswords.
- Sword and Gun: He fights this way sometimes in a few of the Chapters using a blade and his custom revolver Vanquisher.
- The Reveal: In Chapter 87 the readers were given a major one; Sharp Strike is actually the last known survivor of the renowned Promethean Tribe of Mistral, whose name is actually Shen Tian Long. When the Promethean tribe defied Salem and were completely massacred, Tian Long escaped thanks to the sacrifice of both his parents and was eventually rescued by the Remnant Knights as per the sworn sacred oaths between the Knight Order and the tribe itself. He was later recruited into the secret order, and later rising through its ranks under the careful tutelage of Argentius until he was eventually officially knighted as Sharp Strike.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: Sharp Strike, when he had his helmet visor removed in Chapter 48, was revealed to have navy blue eyes with a hint of vermilion red around the irises.
Shadow Reaper
Shadow Reaper
Debut: Chapter 39: Nightmares Part II: Dreams
- Cool Mask: His knight helmet resembles an alpha Grimm Beowolf.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite having dark colours to his Aegis armor, he's a veteran warrior of the Remnant Knights.
- Guns Akimbo: He dual-wields a pair of gunblades.
- Gun Kata: Shadow Reaper was mentioned to fight his battles using such firearm-based martial arts.
- In the Hood: Part of his outfit consists of a black executioner-type hood, which suits his "Grim Reaper" namesake quite well.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He mentioned killing over a hundred Geists during his first mission.
Tranquility
Tranquility
Debut: Chapter 51: The Beacon Lights Again Part II: Roses
A female knight errant who handles most diplomatic matters between the Knight Order and the Kingdoms, as well as Huntsmen Academies when the situation calls for it.
- Ambadassador: She handles manners of diplomacy between the Knight Order and the Kingdoms, and is also an incredibly skilled fighter.
- Instant Runes: She's capable of summoning magical glyphs to aid her in battle, not unlike Weiss and Winter Schnee.
Iron Fist
Iron Fist
Debut: Chapter 51: The Beacon Lights Again Part II: Roses
- Enhanced Punch: The punches from his gauntlets can be further enhanced with a variety of shells containing different types of Dust.
Eagle Eye
Eagle Eye
Debut: Chapter 51: The Beacon Lights Again Part II: Roses
- Badass Boast: She claims that she has never, ever missed a target once she set her sights on it.
- Cool Mask: Her knight helmet was fashioned in the form of a Grimm Nevermore.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Being a hardened veteran knight, she certainly possess such skills.
The Twelve
The original founding members who were first sired by the Vale King and then go on to form the Knight Order of Remnant.
Vorlois Bornstellar
Vorlois Bornstellar
Chosen Voice Actor: TBD
Debut: Chapter 50: The Beacon Lights Again Part I: Meetings (mentioned)
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The first Grand Knight Master of the Remnant Knights and the original custodian of Excalibrus.
- Long-Dead Badass: He's long gone by the time of Destiny of Remnant, and had a statue of him placed at the Hall of the Twelve within Tintagel.
- Magical Eye: He's rumored to be Silver Eye Warrior as well.
- One-Man Army: Vorlois is described to be a large and incredibly powerful warrior, in addition to being an intelligent strategist. Legend had it that he served as the King of Vale's personal bodyguard before forming the Knight Order.
