Dragon Warrior monsters cross stitch 25: Knight

I’m repeatedly amazed when it comes time to write these little posts about the most recent monster I’ve completed just how much of Dragon Warrior I remember. Were I instead doing this project on the creatures of Final Fantasy I’d have conspicuously less to talk about here. In fact, despite the fact that I have since played through Final Fantasy on one of its many remakes, I only have lasting memories of a good half-dozen monsters and/or events. This is not to say that I find one game series to be necessarily better than the other, only that Dragon Warrior made a much more substantial mark on my childhood memories.

I bring this up because in looking at this completed Knight I recall very distinctly that I always had the impression that this was not a person in armor but an animated suit of armor — an empty shell brought to a simulacrum of life by the Dragonlord in effort to further his dark desires. Later games in the series — particularly after the move to 3D graphics — would prove this to be be 100% true. The Armors of Dragon Quest VIII collapse into a heap of plate on their demise. I’m fairly certain this fact was never discussed in any manual and I know the game itself has nothing in the way of descriptive monster text. Somehow I could just tell from the sprite.

The Knight turned out rather well. The darker blue is not right, but this is the fault of the program I used to discover the colors and once started I decided to keep this particular set consistent even if not true to the game. These guys — like most monsters there are a few more of him — remind me very much of Mega Man villains.

Colors used (DMC)

• 310 – Black
• 321 – Christmas Red
• 947 – Burnt Orange
• 995 – Dark Electric Blue
• 3846 – Light Bright Turquoise