False Knees

"Your colleague is crazed!" the red knight shouted to Bagglyn. "This daemon is too powerful for us! Its destructive desires are insatiable!" "Insatiable... that's it!" cried Bagglyn, flying to a nearby branch of the great oak. She sung a sweet melody and soon a fat grub wiggled out from the wood. "Grell!" she yelled, "Over here! Get it over here!"

The great beast is staring at Bagglyn, who is holding a wriggling worm in her beak. Grell is still on the beast's back. An inferno burns on in the background.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 24

"Throw me my sword!” urged the yellow knight, emerging heroically through the smoke. She cut the bunting above, entangling the beast. Meanwhile, the red knight lobbed a fire stick directly into its horrid beak! But this only served to enrage the beast further. “This is a stable boy’s time to shine,” Grell thought to himself. He jumped on the beast’s back!

A violent blaze in the backdrop to this haunting scene! The white beast has purple bunting ensnaring it and smoke coming out of its beak. Grell rides its back and is using the bunting as reins. The red and blue knights are in the foreground, looking frantic.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 23

The gull is attacking the castle! Turrets are on fire. The knight group have arrived. The Queen is staring at the gull in shock from a nearby window. Her guard are using long weapons to keep the gull back.

The heroes returned to the warbler realm to witness a scene of chaos. The slithering servant of evil was wreaking havoc at Oakcliffe Castle!

Kneesvember 2025 Day 22

But just as the red knight hurled his fire stick at the Dragon, a familiar bolt pierced it and deviated its course. "Cease the queste at once!" cried the blue knight. "We have new orders! The Queendom is under attack!"

There is an explosion in the top left corner, and in the top right corner is the Dragon (cormorant) flying away. The red knight is looking surprised, the blue knight has returned! Bagglyn and Grell are also there.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 21

The great beast (a double-crested cormorant), wings out-stretched, is a small distance from the warblers. It is purple and blue with a green eye and white crests emerging from just over its eyes. There is an orange, pink, purple, and blue explosion of colour coming out from the centre of the drawing. The warblers are behind a bush and are very small in comparison.

The giant beast stretched out before them–magnificent, horrible, and reeking of fish. Without hesitation, the red knight jumped out and faced it. "For the Queen!" he boomed.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 20

Our three warblers are hiding in a bush and are in monochrome blue-purple, with shadows covering most of the faces. They peer out expectantly.

Suddenly, a guttural rumble erupted from overhead, like the sound of a stick dragged over a rib cage. The brave warblers ducked under a shrub and watched in fear as a winged terror landed no more than four hops away. "A veritable Dragon," whispered the red knight, his eyes shining in anticipation of the Queen's praise.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 19

We see Bagglyn and Grell following the red knight along the water's edge with greenery in the background. Bagglyn still has the arrow through her cap, and has now attached the yellow knight's sword to a rope around her belt and it is being dragged behind her. She is also now sporting the blue knight's discarded eye patch.

The solemn trio continued their queste upstream. "What cowardice on display from the Queen's supposed finest!" said the red knight. "How is it that two historians are braver than knighted warriors?" "This beats manual labour," said Grell. "–ah what my colleague means is that the strenuous transcribing of historical manuscripts is not for the faint of heart," Bagglyn was quick to add. "Quite," said the red knight, narrowing his eyes.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 18

Bagglyn and Grell are somewhat blurry in the foreground, looking at each other. The red knight is further on sort of soapboxing on his own.

"Blossoming bladderwort!" exclaimed Grell. "Dragons are dangerous!" "Pff! That was no Dragon, but a simple slithering, servant of evil," mumbled the red knight. "Forget that turquoise turncoat and his cursed bow. Onward! Our objective is near." But the red knight was clearly in low spirits. Bagglyn and Grell exchanged a look in silence.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 17

The blue knight and his steed, the dragonfly, are flying in front of a blurred green, blue, and yellow background. The gull is close behind.

"What a nightmare!" screamed the blue knight. "What a monster! What a ghoul! Gaze upon its unyielding plumage! We haven't a hope to defeat this beast! Come, Sapphire!" Throwing his eyepatch to the ground and renouncing his allegiance to the Queen, the blue knight and his steed disappeared into the wood. And the creature pursued them!

Kneesvember 2025 Day 16

The four warblers are facing against a large gull. The blue knight is shooting bolts at the gulls head to no effect. The frame surrounding the image has various health bars which makes the scene appear as if out of a video game. Or that's what I was going for, anyway.

Frantically, the blue knight shot bolt upon bolt at the interloper. "Aim at its weak spots!" urged the red knight. Alas, the horrible creature had none.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 15

Thanks so much!

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The image is drawn duochromatically, with red and green. There is a gull taking up the majority of the frame and it is eating the snail. A red spiral is drawn emanating from the snail.

Before the blue knight could yell "Dragon!", the creature descended from the sky and in one flick of its beak, devoured the snail whole. "Mine steed!" cried the red knight. "Mine sweet, slimy steed!"

Kneesvember 2025 Day 14

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We see our four heroes standing on a rock. The red knight sees his steed, the snail a little ways off. Bagglyn is still dragging the yellow knight's sword. The blue knight sees something in the reflection of the water, which is a spooky silhouette in front of the sun.

"Ah, we've caught up with my faithful steed," remarked the red knight. "It looks like it has found something... perhaps the scent of a Dragon!" A reflection in the water caught the eye of the blue knight.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 13

The four warblers are walking along the water's edge on large rocks. There is a tree with yellow leaves centred in the image.

On went the newfangled quartet, with the red knight leading the way along the water's edge. "It'd be speedier if we were to fly," suggested Bagglyn. The blue knight rolled his eye. "Where is thine sense of adventure?" he said, before doing a backflip from one rock to another. "So cool..." breathed Bagglyn in awe. "I quite enjoy strolling upon the earth," panted Grell, "as if we were a fellowship of adorable little bugs!"

Kneesvember 2025 Day 12

Thanks so much!

The red knight is in the foreground, speaking to a distracted group. Grell is wistfully watched the snipe wading away. The blue knight is releasing the yellow knight's steed, the great bumblebee. The blue knight's dragonfly steed is hovering overhead. And finally, Bagglyn has her cap back–with arrow still lodged through it–and is tentatively picking up the yellow knight's discarded sword.

"Hah! That was no Dragon, but a mere malevolent minion of darkness!" scoffed the red knight. "Forget that yellow-bellied knight and her leaden greaves. Onward! I have a strong notion we shall find what we seek." So onward they went–toward certain disaster!

Kneesvember 2025 Day 11

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"What a horror!" cried the yellow knight, "What a brute! What an ogre! Gaze upon its great lance! We haven't a hope to defeat this beast!" Unbuckling her sword's sheath and renouncing her knighthood, the yellow brid vanished into the wood. "I think it looks quite kindly for a Dragon" said Grell.

We see a snipe wading near the shore. Grell and the blue knight look on.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 10

"So," began the red knight, "when capturing my likeness in tapestrye, ordinary red thread simply wouldn't do my plume justice–" but was interrupted by the yellow knight frantically pushing him from behind. "Shhh! Hide!" she hissed, "Dragon!"

A dreary scene in monochromatic pencil. The warbler crew are moving behind a rock in the foreground to stay out of sight of a scary beast at the water's edge.

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Not a silly question! I am using pencil crayons. This one is different from the rest in that I was time-forced to use a digital paint bucket to colour the background green. To this point I’ve only been using traditional tools like pencils, ink, and some watercolour.

Bagglyn is shown inventing a story with yellow and red stars in a green speech bubble. Grell is next to her looking nervous. Along the bottom of the panel, we have the blue, red, and yellow knights, all in a row. The red knight is laughing and the plumes of his helmet are touching the yellow knight's head. The snail is also there!

"Errr... we are the Queen's historians, sent to record your heroic feats to relay to Her Highness" fabricated Bagglyn. "Your peasant garb is an uncanny disguise" laughed the red knight, "though I wouldn't have used so much dirt!" "Ha" said Bagglyn, "Ha ha ha ha." "I weave them historical tapestryes!" blurted Grell, "all them pretty pictures with nothin' but wee threads!" he continued, winking at Bagglyn.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 8

Without warning, the knights erupted from the bushes and immediately subdued Bagglyn and Grell. "Who are you and why are you following us?" spat the red knight. Author note: there is an image of the blue knight shooting his crossbow in a very cool fashion

The red knight marches aggressively through bushes to our peasant warblers. Bagglyn has had her red hat shot off and stuck to the trunk of a tree by the blue knight. Grell is lying prone on the ground with a blank look on his face. The yellow knight has her boot on Grell with her sword pointed directly at him.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 7

Bagglyn and Grell are in the woods sitting on stones in front of what they believe constitutes a campfire. Grell is eating berries and Bagglyn is looking to the right.

After flying for several hours, the knights stopped for lunch. Bagglyn and Grell did the same just out of sight. "I didn't know the realm were so immense!" remarked Grell, gawking at the unfamiliar landscape. "I b'lieve we passed b'yond the realm and entered the Wylds" replied Bagglyn. "The wuh?" enquired Grell at great volume, spitting out a beak-full of queasyberries.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 6

Tiny silhouettes of birds, one in front with 5 (including flying steeds) and one behind with 2, fly in an early morning sky. There is the slightest hint of warm colours on the horizon. Oh also in the sky there's a cloud in the shape of a bird skull.

The knights set off before dawn, and Bagglyn and Grell were not far behind. Ominous clouds hung over the realm, but warblers are a notoriously unsuperstitious folk, and took no notice.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 5

The three knights are beside their respective steeds on the ground layered in yellow oak leaves. The yellow knight has a bumblebee, who is eating from a plate of flowers; the blue knight, who has a crossbow and an eyepatch, has a dragonfly who is eating from a bucket of pink slop; the red knight, speaking expressively with wings spread wide, has a snail.

Later that evening, the knights packed for their queste. "I have ne'er afore encountered a Dragon" admitted the yellow knight, who fought for honour and glory, "are they large beasts?" "And where shall we seek one?" added the blue knight, who was very cool. "Friends! Worry not, for I am an expert in such matters! said the red knight, who was a great liar. Note: there is a small drawing of Grell and Bagglyn watching the knights very obviously from behind a fence.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 4

Two peasant warblers are speaking to each other in the crowd. The first is yellow and gray-blue and is wearing a red hat, medieval-style. The second is dark gray and orange-yellow and is wearing a sort of brown tunic, medieval-style? The crowd around them are all drawn in uniform purple to make them blend in.

"I wish t' see a Dragon!" exclaimed Bagglyn, a lowly worm-whistler from Mudhole, straining to see over the crowd. "I know wherein them noble knights keep their noble steeds!" replied her friend, Grell, the stable boy, "We could follow 'em in secret on their noble queste!"

Kneesvember 2025 Day 3

A large crowd of birds is gathered in front of the Queen, who is an ovenbird wearing a crown and a purple cape with white furry trim. There are three knights standing at the end of the royal rug: a redstart wearing a helmet with a red plume, a yellow warbler with a belted sword and metal boots, and a cerulean warbler who has some straps but we see nothing else. There are yellow and purple bunting flags and some banners showing the Queen's image.

Growing increasingly eccentric in Her old age, the Queen ordered Her three finest knights on a most dangerous queste: to retrieve the head of a Dragon!

Kneesvember 2025 Day 2

Birds are flying toward a castle with several red-roofed towers built at the top of an enormous oak tree. The sky is blue and there are wispy clouds. The tree is full of orange leaves and there are red and yellow trees in the distance. The image is bordered by a red, yellow, and blue, uh... border, with little stars and patterns.

On the Queen's seventh birthday, brids from across the warbler realm were flocking to Oakcliffe Castle to take part in the festivities. (The first letter is illustrated in its own cute little box, technically termed an historiated initial, like in medieval manuscripts)

Kneesvember 2025 Day 1