This chapter reveals how the poet of William of Palerne amplifies and repoliticizes themes present in his source, paying particular attention to desire, gender, agency, and violence. Through alliterative patterns, the poet amplifies William’s affective relationship with flora, embedding green spaces into his protagonists’ identities. He foregrounds the wolf’s agency and bond with William, highlighting the queer potential of their interspecies and interspatial network. The poet also rewrites gendered spaces and blurs the boundaries between inside/outside or domestic/nondomestic environments. Further, William’s connections to the natural world heighten his erotic qualities and queer potential, linking him to the Roman princess, Melior, and her cousin, Alisaundrine. The English poet’s Alisaundrine is considerably more developed than her French counterpart, playing an important part of the extended network binding prince and princess together. Additionally, William’s expansive identity network informs his response to war’s devastation, its impact upon people and the terrain. Ultimately, the English poet constructs a protagonist who reflects new contexts and concerns. Through its reduction of the violence associated with the werewolf-knight’s assemblage, William presents an anti-war position that reflects contexts specific to localized, internal politics of fourteenth-century England, especially conflict between the crown and the Welsh Marcher barons.