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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
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Limited to three flights of arrows...

By orders of His Highness Prince John, the champions (Best archers?)

of Sir Guy and the knights (the knights have their own group of archers?)
will be limited to three flights of arrows Can shoot only 3 times - each one of them?
for the eliminations.
  

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Madhulk By orders of His Highness Prince John, the champions ( Best archers? ) Champion in this context is a person who is fighting on their behalf. The upper classes didn't lower themselves to actually compete - they had someone do it for them of Sir Guy and the knights ( the knights have their own group of archers?

  • Madhulk By orders of His Highness Prince John, the champions ( Best archers?
  • ) Champion in this context is a person who is fighting on their behalf.
  • The upper classes didn't lower themselves to actually compete - they had someone do it for them of Sir Guy and the knights ( the knights have their own group of archers?
  • ) no -just their own champion will be limited to three flights of arrows Can shoot only 3 times - each one of them?
  • Kind of - a flight of arrows is a group of arrows in flight*.
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MadhulkBy orders of His Highness Prince John, the champions (Best archers?) Champion in this context is a person who is fighting on their behalf. The upper classes didn't lower themselves to actually compete - they had someone do it for them

of Sir Guy and the knights (the knights have their own group of archers?) no -just their own c
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Thanks for clearing my doubts, KateJS!
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Hi,

By orders of His Highness Prince John, the champions (Best archers?) Yes. The underlying idea of 'a champion' here is someone who fights for/represents someone else.

of Sir Guy and the knights (the knights have their own group of archers?) apparently

will be limited to three flights of arrows Can shoot only 3 times - each one of
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CliveIt's like 'three rounds of shooting'.
That makes more sense. Thanks, Clive!

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