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King Uther led his army to confront the renegade Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall. Thanks to the presence of Excalibur and Merlin, the two were able to reconcile. Sirs William, Blewydd, Lavender and Robert were present and witnessed firsthand the power of Excalibur. Uther then led his armies north to fight a new wave of Saxons, led by the treacherous Octa and Eosa. The fighting was inconclusive and both armies withdrew to their own lands.

After the meeting of King Uther and Duke Gorlois, Sirs William, Robert and Lavender were sent north to resolve peasant unrest. As the knights reached their destination, they found that the town was attacked every 80 years by a fierce fire-breathing dragon! With the help of the knights, a local boy managed to slay the dragon, but paid the ultimate price. Sir Lavender was the only knight to wound the monster, prying loose a bright blue scale and drawing blood, earning her the nickname Dragonbane. After the beast was laid low and the peasant hero buried, the scale pried loose proved to be one of the six fae shields!

Late autumn, on the cusp of winter, the knights were summoned to Sarum by royal decree. Prince Madoc, having come to respect the bravery and skill in battle following their mighty deeds at Bayeaux, assigned them as the bodyguards to his father's envoy, Sir Guilleard de Taureau on his journey to the northern kingdom of Malahaut and its powerful ruler, Heraut de Apres, the Centurion King. The journey to the capital city of Eburacum was uneventful, but once there the knights soon came embroiled in a murder investigation as the prime subjects (no doubt caused by Sir William the Giantslayer having slapping the victim in broad daylight). Though able to defend their innocence, if not prove it beyond a doubt, the talks with the Centurion King were inconclusive, and the knights had to return to Salisbury as the first snowfall began.

In joyous news, many children were born in Salisbury, not the least being the sons of Sir Robert, Sir William, and Sir Hilfbert!