knight of the Round Table
Sir Lionel
Bors's brother, left to be beaten so that a stranger could be saved — and he never forgave it.
Lionel is captured and being flogged with thorns when Bors, riding past, sees at the same moment a woman about to be raped a little further on. Bors can only reach one. He chooses the woman. Lionel survives, and the grievance rots: he later attacks his own brother and kills a knight and a hermit who try to stop him, and Bors will not raise a sword against him. It is the best moral problem in the Grail quest and the cycle refuses to resolve it comfortably.
Where Sir Lionel appears
Sir Lionel appears in a single episode. A short arc is a fact about the figure, not a gap in the record.
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