Answer:
The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foe's attack. What are we?
So cold damp and dark I am. To stay you would refrain yet those who occupy me do never complain.
I am in the past, never in the future. I don't exist, but have existed. I saw what you saw, and this is what I will ever see. What am I?
What word sounds the same even after you take away four of its five letters?
I am pronounced as one letter written with three. I come in blue black brown or grey. Reverse me and I read the same either way.
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.