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QM, about the Holy Knights, are their squires tagging along with their own griffins too?
Squires are historically given their own horses; griffins take a long time to fully grow, and need a lifelong bond with their rider from birth to be used effectively, and the Holy Knights definitely trains squires to maintain their numbers throughout the centuries and would bring them along in this campaign to give them combat experience.
Because I am imagining right now that all 10 ordained knights are being purely used for combat roles, and the squires are being used for recon, messaging, and as lightly armed escorts during combat. This would explain the surprisingly large amount of damage they inflicted this battle. Then they have younger pages and attendants as groundcrew preparing ordnance to quickly rearm all the griffins.