Type: Enhancer
Blended: yes
Ambient Adaptive: no

Sir Percevale ~ Prowess
Sir Percivale was raised by his mother in ignorance of arms and courtesy. Percivale's natural prowess, however, led him to King Arthur's court where he immediately set off in pursuit of a knight who had offended Guinevere. Percivale is one of the Grail knights in numerous medieval and modern stories of the Grail Quest. Percivale first appears in Chrétien de Troyes's unfinished Percivale or Conte del Graal. Chrétien's story was also the inspiration for Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. As in Chrétien's story, Wolfram's Parzival is initially naive and foolish, having been sheltered from the dangers of the chivalric world by his mother. Other medieval versions of the story of Percivale can be found in the French texts known as the Didot-Percivale and Perlesvaus. Percivale is the central character in the fourteenth-century Middle English romance Sir Percivale of Galles, which is apparently based on Chrétien's tale but which omits the Grail motif entirely. Percivale is one of three Grail knights in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, the others being Galahad and Bors. Percivale functions as the narrator of the dramatic monologue which comprises most of Tennyson's Idyll "The Holy Grail."