Royal Knights

The Royal Knights (ロイヤルナイツ Roiyaru Naitsu) are an alliance of powerful knight Digimon founded by Imperialdramon Paladin Mode in ancient times. They are the highest security of the Net, also known as "Guardian Deities". They may serve their Lord blindly, regardless if their Lord is good or evil. Some say that the Royal Knights are the ones who are closest to God.

=Founder= Imperialdramon Paladin Mode is not a member of the Royal Knights but is the founder.

=Members= These are the known members of the Royal Knights. There are 13 members in total, but only this many are known. They are all Holy Knight type Digimon (Rapidmon (Gold) is also a Holy Knight, but there is no mention of him being a member of the Royal Knights). (Note: The X Digimon still count as the same Royal Knights).

=Appearances= =Anime=

Digimon Adventure Our War Game
Yagami Taichi’s War Greymon and Ishida Yamato's Metal Garurumon fusion evolve into Omegamon to stop the virus Digimon Diablomon.

Digimon Adventure 02
When Chimeramon came close to defeating the Chosen Children, Daisuke harnessed the power of the Digimental of Miracles to armor evolve V-mon to Magnamon. Magnamon battled Chimeramon and at first seemed to lose, but when the last dying power of Wormmon was granted to him it unlocked his Extreme Jihad attack which he used to incinerate the beast.

Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals
When Cherubimon was on the verge of defeating the Chosen Children's Digimon Seraphimon and Holydramon recreated the Digimental of Miracles and Digimental of Fate to armor evolve V-mon and Terriermon to Magnamon and Rapidmon. They tried to battle Cherubimon but were swallowed by him. Inside they saw his adult form of Wendimon who on his instruction they destroyed which in turn destroyed Cherubimon shortly after he returned to his purified state. However he was revived as a digiegg which was shown to have hatched in the final moments of the movie.

Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
Diablomon returns and Taichi and Yamato's Omegamon try to stop the Virus Digimon again. Omegamon kills the Virus Digimon but then has to fight Armagemon, a mass culmination of Kuramon that all evolved as one. Armagemon defeats Omegamon so as a last act he gives his power to Motomiya Daisuke's and Ichijouji Ken’s Imperialdramon Fighter Mode which allows the Ultimate Digimon to Mode Change into Imperialdramon Paladin Mode. Imperialdramon Paladin Mode slays Armagemon and the threat is ended.

Digimon Tamers
Matsuda Takato and his Guilmon matrix evolve into Dukemon to stop Beelzebumon from killing the Tamers. Later on Dukemon and his comrades fight the D-Reaper once the Tamers make it back to the Human World. Dukemon fuses with the life form known as Grani to Mode Change into Dukemon Crimson Mode. With this and the aid of Dukemon’s comrades the D-Reaper is defeated.

Digimon Tamers: The Adventurers' Battle
Omegamon was chasing Apocalymon and seemingly destroyed him but his DigiCore remained and reformed into Mephismon. He chased him through the dimension between the digital world and the real world and managed to corner him. When he realised he couldn't win Mephismon escaped to the real world laughing. Omegamon, fearful that he had gone there to begin his plan of total annihilation of all life on the planet as was Apocalymon's goal, summoned Jianling, Ruki, Galgomon and Kyuubimon to his location where he informed him of the threat of Memphismon. He guided them to where they could emerge at Takato and Growmon's location in Mephismon's lair, he himself could not either due to the fact that laws were created which meant that digimon were not meant to go to the real world (in normal circumstances, these laws were probably made by the sovereigns and there could be exceptions such as an apocalyptic threat e.g. the D-Reaper)or that there was a preventative barrier that Mephismon had defied.

Digimon Frontier
Dynasmon and Rhodo Knightmon serve the Fallen Angel Digimon Lucemon in destroying and recreating the Digital World. After several skirmishes with the Frontier Chosen the two Royal Knights finally destroy the Digital World and revive their Master, only to be betrayed when Lucemon kills them and absorbs all the data they have collected.

Digimon Savers
The Royal Knights as a whole were originally viewed upon as being antagonists, due to being ordered to destroy the Human World under the command of Yggdrasil when the Digital World is set to collide with the Real World. However, it is more likely that Yggdrasil ordered the attack because he viewed the humans as threats after the action of Kurata Akihiro, especially after his massacre of Digimon years before using his own created Digimon, Gizmon, and using the collected life energy to revive Belphemon to rule both humans and Digimon.

=Manga=

V-Tamer
Zeromaru evolves into Alforce V-Dramon to battle Arkadimon and Demon

D Cyber
Omegamon X, Medieval Dukemon/Dukemon X and Magnamon X appear as the remainder of the Royal knights who fought Dexmon 10,000 years ago. They make appearances as the allies of the story's choosen children. At the end Dorumon is revealed to be their lost leader Alphamon. He merges with Ou Ryuumon to form Alphamon Ultimate War Blade King Dragon Sword who destroys Dexmon.

Chronicle
The knights appear here as the servants of Yggdrasil helping enact project Ark. However Alphamon and Ou Ryuumon are fighting against Yggdrasil but make a a compromise with him after they merge together to defeat Dexmon.

=Video Games= =V-Pets=