![]() ![]() The young knight was so scarred and filthy from his battles that at first the King's Men-at-Arms mistook him for a fellow peasant. Louen would not return to Couronne until five years after his quest had begun. Prince Louen prepares to battle the Necromancer. Today, though, I'll like as not be up to my armpits in corpses by lunchtime. And on that day I'll eat rabbit stew, stuffed swan, roast boar and more besides. One day I'll sleep in a bed again, perhaps with a woman or two to warm it. " Five years of this, and it never gets easier. Without proof of his victories, and having not yet seen the Grail, they were likely to dismiss such claims. ĭespite these achievements, however, Louen knew that the Grand Court of Couronne cared not for hollow boasts. He had even fought alongside the Green Knight at one point, and received the Fay Enchantress's blessing after slaying a herd of Beastmen on the banks of a Sacred Lake. He had met with prophets and ghosts alike on his travels, survived battles against Dragons and Daemons in his attempts to win the Lady's favour, and rid Bretonnia of many a rampaging monster. ![]() He travelled for years across the realm of Bretonnia and into lands beyond, expelling evil from wherever it could be found. īorn into the illustrious Royal Household of Couronne, Louen took the Questing Vow when he was still a young prince. Andreas Halldenstadt, Head Scribe at the Great Library of Altdorf. " And King Louen did wield the Sword of Couronne, and he did slay the herds of beasts and the tide of green death that threatened the fair land of Bretonnia! It is written, oh yes - it's all here in the finest scribe's hand!" It is certain that the power of the Grail flows through his veins, for where Leoncoeur is cut, light streams out from the wound until it is healed over once more. Many believe it is the Lady's favour, her eternal blessing - or even her ethereal kiss - that enables Louen to hold back the advancing years and continue to lead his kingdom to glory. Somehow, the King has halted the ageing process, appearing to be much younger than his birth records belie. Wearing the blessed Crown of Bretonnia, and wielding the legendary Sword of Couronne - forged from exquisite Bretonnian silverine - the fearsome Royarch comes to smite evil from his lands. ![]() Vampires, Greenskins and Beastmen alike are right to run from the field when King Louen Leoncoeur - the "Lionhearted" - charges into the fray atop his noble Hippogryph Beaquis, for their doom is surely at hand. On the battlefield, Louen is a deadly adversary, a natural general and a holy champion of the Lady of the Lake. Whenever the King gets involved, justice is done. He has issued a decree that none are to suffer for what they say during such an audience. Fairness in all matters is his watchword, never allowing the law as written to compromise its noble intent, never refusing anyone a hearing in his presence to air grievances of which must be judged. He is renowned as a noble and just ruler. Louen Leoncoeur, the Lionhearted, also known as the Lion-Heart, Louen the Bold, the Lion of Bretonnia, the Beloved Son of Bretonnia, the Lord of the Lance, the Golden Paladin and Roi Breton, is the Duke of Couronne, High Paladin of the Breton Court, one of the almighty Grail Knights and the penultimate warrior- King of Bretonnia.
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