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The Knights of the Round are the most powerful members of the Britannian military, their order is made up of the twelve best fighters of Britannia and they answer to the Emperor and the emperor alone. The knights are each known to have a specially, one of a kind Knightmare frame which is named after one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round. They gain special privileges, such as the ability to defy any members of the royal family except for the emperor without punishment and to decide how to punish anyone who commits a crime against them. Gino has a very unique philosophy about the rounds and himself. These feelings are explored in the Knights of the Round novel.
"Nothing more than rhetoric. At the end of the day, a knight's purpose was to kill. The better the knight the more people he killed, both on and off the battlefield. A knight was a murderer who climbed to victory atop a mountain of bloody corpses. Whatever rhetoric he may adhere to did not change the fundamental facts of his actions.
Gino thought that "strong" people were not fit to be killers. A "strong" person could not fail to realize the absolute evil in his actions, and, coming to that realization, must fight against it. Whereas a "weak" man might realize the evil in his actions, but choose instead to ignore it. A "weak" man would fabricate excuses and justifications to escape from his responsibility. It was the mission, it was chivalry, it was the command of his liege lord, it was war - anything to justify himself in his own mind. And so...
It was ironic, thought Gino, that the Rounds, known as the strongest knights of the Empire, were on one level a collection of the "weakest" people in Britannian. Their only recourse for escaping the weight of the tens of thousands of lives that they took, had taken, and would take in the future was to make excuses for themselves. None of them voiced these excuses, of course, but they made them nevertheless - if only to themselves, even on a subconscious level. A person was able to kill not because they were "strong", but because they were "weak". Weak enough to make a path to escape within their own mind, as the "strong" could not do." - The Knights of the Round Novel.
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