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Why are they called "Spiral" Knights exactly? They're not from the Wiz/Pirate 101 games and their world isn't called Spiral, so why are they called that?
Can someone give me some pre-crash lore about the Spiral Knights and their world? Thanks!
The name "spiral" arose pretty late in the game's development; see item #2 here. Spirals appear in the game artwork in a variety of places. In particular, the chess knight icon used in various places (such as the 45,000-prestige badge) has a spiral in its jaw line. Perhaps this image is what inspired the name. I don't know.
All of the lore is explained in the missions, by the non-player characters in the Rescue Camp and Haven, by the Echo Stones in the Sanctuary, etc. The short version is that we don't know much. The developers have not bothered to flesh out the story a whole lot.