Artus

The first of the Saber-Knights and a key figure for Amadea.

Legend Title: The Saber-Knight, The First Artusian Knight, The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived.

Primary Instrument: Refined Oak Cello, Dance Armament: Wide Saber Soul Leitmotif: Crystal Ornaments: Resonance

Motif Awakening Wish: "I wish for the power to protect you until my very story ends. Not as a promise made to a Ballad. As a promise made to the only thing that has ever made me certain of anything."

Legend Traits:

• Resilient -> Broken Optimist (Crystal)
• Selfless -> Savior Complex (Resonance)
• Charismatic -> Auspicious Zephyr (Cindergale)

Legend Opus:

• Sir Artus Marshal of Iridia, "The Greatest Knight" (Magnum Opus)
• Prodigy Slayer of The Seven Hands Ascendant Anxithor (Slayer Magnum Opus)
• Keeper of the Violet Dream (Legend Opus)
• Father of the Artusian Knights (Legend Opus)
• Bane of the Undefeated Lionheart (Legend Opus)
• First Saber-Knight and Master Duelist (Legend Opus)
• The Certain Vanquisher of Signaths (Legend Opus)

Character Arc

• The Ballad Artus hears is a confusion of his own mind, he was confusing the Legend of Medea, the Silver Blood, during Ages 0, with the name "Amadea" that's why the tree he remembers is a Glimmerfern grove with concentrated pooled Lunehymn. The confusion is a fabricated story mixing a good ending vastly different from what actually happened, it's the phenomenon of Mythic Drift in the canon story.

• Motif Awakening to Crystal during the coronation of the first Saber-Knight of Iridia by a young Amadea on a watch tower armory Outpost.

• First Ornament to Resonance after spending the night with Amadea during the waltz of the Resonance Box.

• Dies before he fully develops his secondary Ornament to Cindergale or Strand. His death in battle against an Ascendant is the Motif Awakening to Void of Amadea.

• He is one of the youngest Legends to have slain an Ascendant Atonalis without a squad of Spellweavers. He was a prodigy with the sword that would've likely became a saber master virtuoso if he would have lived for longer. He was already a master duelist at a very young age.

• Through his Selfless sacrifice, he is the knight that all honorable knights strive to be. He served Amadea long before former knighthood was even developed.

• Artus saber becomes the mythical parallel to Excalibur for Arcanoria, Amadea states on the Artusian Knight ceremonies: "Not because the blade was special, but because the man who wielded it was."