The Pooka was a threat in Knightmare from Series 4 through to Series 7.

Although Treguard described them as dangerous, in mythology Pookas were mischeivous rather than harmful. Pookas can align themselves with different creatures to appear in the human world. They can also become invisible.

All pookas featured in Knightmare were plant pookas, and were probably brainwashed by Lord Fear as they often appeared to be under his control.

Mostly they appeared in Level 2.

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Some Knightmare purists will tell you that Knightmare featured not one type of pooka, but two: the familiar green plant pooka from Series 6 and 7, and the bearded woodland haunting from Series 4 and Series 5. Similarly, it is worth noting that Knightmare's pookas have inspired the screen names not more than one KM community member.

Pooka is already described on IKM, once within an autobiographical Lexicon definition (see below), and was once described elsewhere as follows: 'Will often be found discussing how he was one of the first and how that makes him oh so much better so we had all better bend over and kiss his ass. When not commanding respect for doing very little Pooka will be piecing together the horrors of yet another Knightmare song filk thing.' The two descriptions are succinct, so there is, perhaps, more to say, though I do not aim to be exhaustive in doing so.
Pooka was indeed one of the earliest members of the internet's Knightmare fan community, forming acquaintanceships with Johnny Burkhart, Paul McIntosh, and the webmaster of knightmare.clara.net, among others. He also produced a fanzine, Pooka Times. After joining the Knightmare RPG group, Pooka acted in RPG Season 4, Season 6 and Season 7, playing Robin, Prince Isárion, Banshee, Meksis and others.

Pooka's involvement in the KM community also covers fanfiction (including The Re-Admission and Clash Of Two Teams, which were published on NKTP), the Bring Back Knightmare campaign, the Lexicon, online roleplaying (he brought the character of Robin to the Knightmare Roleplay Forum), Alan Boyd's KMV, filks (he has been part of Wall Aid 11 and Sing Back Knightmare) and Knightmare Chat. In spite of speaking out against Tim Child's 'moving on' in 2006, and in spite of the peaks and troughs that KM fans experience from time to time, Pooka remains passionate about Knightmare, and about the creature that inspired his name. He is then, to use his words, 'still in full time Knightmare slavery!'

But let us not overlook 123Pooka, who has been a member of the Knightmare Discussion Forum since August 2003. He made no posts between June 2005 and February 2008. 123Pooka's posts - of which there are now over 123 - cover the Chalice, a quest object which no team succeeded in winning ('So, is the cup that heals actually the cup that kills, or is is it just mere chance that so many dungeoneers couldn't claim it?'), his three best KM series (3, 7 and 2), his worst KM series (5), and dreaming ('I remember once having a nightmare as a child where a green face wearing a black hat was looking through my window at me. He had a booming voice. I always wondered who this person was and whether or not I had just made it up. When I went on [knightmare.com], I rediscovered this nightmarish person- it was Mogdred! I couldn't believe it'). He even turned his hand to filk writing. Like many fans, 123Pooka once recreated Knightmare in the home: 'the kitchen table had the clue objects on and people were used as obstacles ;D'

In November 2008, Nathan_Co joined the Discussion Forum and adopted the display name Pookas Rule. His posts have expressed a liking for the Series 6-7 pookas, Merlin's comedy value, and wall monster Igneous.

[Earlier version: 2007-12-12 00:32:19]

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Pooka is the assumed name of Benjamin Maydon (no prizes for guessing where he got the name from). He ran a website called Pooka Times which was based on fantasy and had a section on Knightmare.

When knightmare.clara.net came into being, he was one of the first people to visit the site, and got Illusion - known as Nicholas at that time - in touch with Paul McIntosh as well as spreading the word of the site.

Pooka now acts in the Knightmare RPG and has played Robin as well as Isárion, Meksis, Banshee and a few other miscellaneous characters.

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