“ | Quintessa is the great deceiver! | „ |
~ Knight to Optimus Prime for being a pawn |
The Knights of Iacon are the Transformers Knights that appears in Transformers: The Last Knight.
History
A.D. 484
The Knights rebelled against Quintessa and stole the staff from her to prevent her of destroying earth (which she believed earth is Unicron), even they branded her as a The Great Deceiver.
The Knights' ship was buried in a hill in England where King Arthur his Knights of the Round Table were battling against Saxons and were counting on the alcoholic wizard Merlin to retrieve the staff to guarantee their victory. A red armored knight, gave Merlin the staff.
The Staff
The Knights had been in stasis guarding Merlin's tomb deep in the waters near Britain.
One of the Knights of Iacon, Steelbane, was in a crashed ship in the half of the ruined area of Chicago.