Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Avalon – Sir Agravaine

Sir Agravaine – Sir Agravain
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Sir_Agravaine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agravain

Wizards must defeat Sir Agravaine in the Lonely Tower to regain Friar Nolan’s Spell Deck as part of the Level 72 Spell Quest, No Pain, No Agravaine.

“Who trespasses? A meddling Wizard? No matter, I’ll box your ears and send you whimpering back to Caliburn.” – Sir Agravaine

Sir Agravain is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, whose first known appearance is in the works of Chrétien de Troyes. He is the second eldest son of King Lot of Orkney with one of King Arthur’s sisters known as Anna or Morgause, thus nephew of King Arthur, and brother to Sir Gawain, Gaheris, and Gareth, as well as half-brother to Mordred.

The earliest known appearance of Agravain, as Engrevain the Proud, is found in Chrétien de Troyes’ 12th-century romance poem Perceval, the Story of the Grail in which he is one of Gawain’s brothers and is also known as the one “with the hard hands” (aus dures mains). The poem’s anonymous First Continuation describes him as very quarrelsome. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where he is called Agravain of the Hard Hand, he is named in a list of respectable knights. This, combined with his unobjectionable depiction in Chrétien’s original Perceval, suggests his reputation might not have been very negative prior to his characterization in the prose cycles.

The current list of all the (known) Avalon references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references, I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages.

Sir Agravaine image is from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

Walter Crane’s illustration for Henry Gilbert’s King Arthur’s Knights (1911) is in borrowed from the King Arthur and his Knights website and is in the public domain.

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