Helake
Role: knight · First appears: Book X, Chapter LXIII
Life events
- Helius and Helake killed King Hermance through felony and treason.(Book X, Chapter LXIII)
- With: Helius King Hermance
- “we are the same knights that slew King Hermance”
- Sir Palomides declared that he came to avenge King Hermance’s death by fighting Helius and Helake.(Book X, Chapter LXIII · 📍 Red City)
- With: Sir Palomides King Hermance Helius
- “Be ye the two brethren, Helius and Helake, that slew your king and lord, Sir Hermance, by felony and treason, for whom that I am come hither to revenge his death?”
- Helius and Helake accepted Sir Palomides’s challenge and appointed to meet him in the city.(Book X, Chapter LXIII · 📍 Red City)
- With: Helius Sir Palomides
- “So they appointed to be at the city within two days.”
- Sir Palomides strikes Helake through the breast, leaving him unable to help himself.(Book X, Chapter LXIV)
- With: Sir Palomides
- “by fortune Sir Palomides smote Helake through his shield and through the breast more than a fathom.”
Book X, Chapter LXIII
- siblings with Helius “So within the third day there came to the city these two brethren, the one hight Helius, the other hight Helake, the which were men of great prowess;”
- enemies with Sir Palomides “Be ye the two brethren, Helius and Helake, that slew your king and lord, Sir Hermance, by felony and treason, for whom that I am come hither to revenge his death?”
- enemies with King Hermance “Wit thou well, said Sir Helius and Sir Helake, that we are the same knights that slew King Hermance;”
- with King Hermance (Helake participated in the treasonous killing of King Hermance.) “Be ye the two brethren, Helius and Helake, that slew your king and lord, Sir Hermance, by felony and treason”
Book X, Chapter LXIV
- rivals with Sir Palomides “Then they departed, and the two brethren came against Sir Palomides, and he against them, as fast as their horses might run. And by fortune Sir Palomides smote Helake through his shield and through the breast more than a fathom.”
- with Sir Palomides (Sir Palomides mortally wounded Helake in battle.) “Sir Palomides smote Helake through his shield and through the breast more than a fathom”
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