The Guardian Knights
- The Guardian Knights are a Transformer organization from The Last Knight portion of the live-action film series continuity family.
The Guardian Knights, also called Knights of Iacon, are twelve elite warriors who oppose the deceiver sorceress Quintessa. They can combine to form Dragonstorm, a mighty fire-breathing dragon.
The Knights include:
Seglass Ni Tonday—The Knights' motto, The Last Knight
Fiction
The Last Knight film
Some time in the past, the twelve Knights rebelled against Quintessa, whom they considered the "deceiver". Stealing her control staff, they set out aboard a Guardian Knight ship into space in hopes of finding worthy allies on another world.
By the fifth century C.E., the Knights had landed their ship on Earth, the planet of Unicron, inhabited by the humans. In Dark Ages England, they made contact with a native, Merlin, who promised to keep their existence a secret. However in 484 Age, Merlin beseeched them to help his people against the the imminent threat of destruction by invading Saxons. Judging that Camelot was proof of the worthiness of humankind, the Knights decided to render assistance to King Arthur's forces. The red-armored leader of the Knights granted the staff of Quintessa to Merlin and combined into Dragonstorm. As a mighty gestalt dragon, the Knights easily wrought devastation against the enemies of Camelot. Afterwards, knights both human and Cybertronian celebrated their alliance.
An unspecified time later, the Knights moved their ship to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, wherein they slumbered in stasis along with Merlin's corpse and the staff. By the 21st century, both the Knights of the Round Table and the Knights of Iacon had fallen into legend. Thanks to the efforts of the Order of the Witwiccans, Dragonstorm was misbelieved to merely be the exaggerated story of a catapult. In the meantime, another knight came to Earth in search of the Last Knight, prophecied to be crucial against Quintessa, who was moving Cybertron towards Earth. Though this knight was shot down by the TRF, he succeeded in giving a Talisman to Cade Yeager. Yeager and Merlin's descendant Viviane Wembly were able to board the HMS Alliance and travel to the Knights' undersea ship. Cade inadvertently woke Skullitron, who immediately began attacking the apparent intruders, only to be gunned down by the TRF. Two more Knights arrived minutes later and wreaked havoc among the TRF, but they were themselves cut down by a newly-arrived Optimus Prime, now under the thrall of Quintessa. In short order, Optimus seized the staff, escaped, was knocked back to his senses, and then lost the staff to Megatron and Quintessa's new Decepticon allies.
The Knights soon recovered themselves and came outside. Outraged that Optimus had been in Quintessa's service (and not seeming to care that it was not willful), the Knights beat down Optimus, one preparing to execute him. As Yeager attempted to stop this, his talisman transformed into the fabled Excalibur, which he used to stop a Knight's blade. Recognizing Yeager as the Last Knight, the other Knights stopped attacking and joined the Autobot-TRF plan against Quintessa. The Knights boarded the Autobot ship to travel to Quintessa's base on a hanging section of the newly-arrived Cybertron. From the ship's hull, the Knights combined into Dragonstorm and took flight against Quintessa's forces. Dragonstorm also dropped Optimus into battle against Infernocus. The allied humans, Autobots, and Knights emerged victorious, stopping Cybertron from consuming Earth's energy and forcing Quintessa and the Decepticons to flee. Soon afterwards, the Knights once again formed Dragonstorm to fly alongside the Autobot ship towards their nearby homeworld.
Notes
- None of the Knights are named in the movie, nor are they ever shown to have individual alt-modes.
- The Talisman Knight's relationship to the Guardian Knights is unclear. Both Quintessa and Sir Edmund Burton state that there were twelve Guardian Knights, which, as Burton explained, matched the twelve Knights of the Round Table. On Cybertron, there is also seen an altar adorned with twelve small knight statues. But later, twelve Guardian Knights are seen on the deck of their ship at a point well after the Talisman Knight has died, so how he fits into all this remains a mystery.
- When Dragonstorm is formed for the first time in the movie, Stormreign is not needed to become part of him. Later, when he forms in the present day, Skullitron and at least two other Knights have already died. Apparently it doesn't require all twelve knights to make Dragonstorm at any given time.
- It is unclear if the Guardian Knights are the knights mentioned by Lockdown in Age of Extinction as Lockdown claimed Optimus and the Dinobots to be knights, something that goes unaddressed in The Last Knight.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Iacon no Kishi-tachi (アイアコンの騎士達, "Knights of Iacon")
- Korean: Suho Gisa (수호 기사, "Guardian Knights")
- Spanish: Caballeros Guardianes ("Guardian Knights"), Caballeros Iacon ("Iacon Knights")
