'Round iron armor. Worn by Lionel the Lionhearted. When this chivalrous, dauntless knight met Fia, who had been driven from her home, he declared himself to be her father.' Lionel the Lionhearted is the canon's quietest act of grace: a chivalrous knight who, encountering the exiled Deathbed Companion Fia, took her in as his daughter despite no blood relation. Fia, a Deathbed Companion, a sacred calling in her homeland, was chased from her birthplace when the guidance of grace awakened her; it is the Golden Order's dogma that made her vocation a heresy. He declared himself her father, the armor text says no more, and needs no more.

'Round iron armor with a banner extending from its back. Worn by Lionel the Lionhearted. When this chivalrous, dauntless knight met Fia, who had been driven from her home, he declared himself to be her father.' Lionel's adoption of Fia is the canon's quiet inversion of every other lineage-story in the Lands Between. Godwyn, slain by the black-knife plot, was left to rot in the very Death his mother had outlawed; Radagon left Rennala for Marika; Godfrey was banished by the woman who married him. The canon's institutional family relationships are all betrayals. Lionel is the only counterexample: a man who chose a daughter who needed one, and held her against the Order's verdict. By the time the Tarnished arrives, only his armor remains, laid on a bed in Leyndell's Fortified Manor, the mirror of the Roundtable Hold, in the very room Fia keeps at the Hold. Whether the old knight lives, the canon never says.