Early the next morning, in his tower, Arthur wakes up to find a soothsayer in his bedroom. “Who are you and how did you get in here?” Arthur not unreasonably wants to know. Merlin says not to worry, he’s Merlin, … Continue reading →
So at the end of the last chapter Malory explains to us that Arthur ends up ruling all of Great Britain, Wales and Scotland and all, but it turns out that was just a spoiler for future events, because the … Continue reading →
As the chapter (Chapter 7 of Book I) opens it’s been months, months of Arthur pulling the sword from the stone and the barons and the landed gentry and the knights all refusing to accept him. He keeps trying, though. … Continue reading →
Yesterday’s post was extra-long and a twofer, so today all you get are some images of Uther Pendragon as I envision him:
Continue reading →Special double post! It’s only because chapters 5 and 6 of Book I run together without a good breakpoint, mid-conversation. There are several bits like this scattered about later in the text; I’ll deal with them on a case-by-case basis. … Continue reading →
Uther’s death! As promised! It’s actually pretty sad. Time goes by, a year or two, and before things have really gotten properly settled Uther gets some kind of unnamed lingering disease, which could be anything from tuberculosis to stomach cancer … Continue reading →
This is a short one. Just as Merlin predicted, Igraine — now Uther’s wife and the queen of England — is pregnant. By the time she enters her third trimester, her new husband starts to suspect something, so he asks … Continue reading →
Right, Sir Ulfius and Merlin. Ulfius runs back to Uther, tells him how Merlin was there, and Uther’s like, what? you liar, I don’t see Merlin. Merlin is waiting outside, in fact; apparently he’s like a vampire in that he … Continue reading →
“It is like reading jousting fanfic by the world’s worst jousting fanfic writer.” — Brant Casavant “Have fun. I’d sooner listen to an audiobook of the worst parts of the Silmarillion read by Ben Stein.” — Chris Vaughn “Le Morte … Continue reading →
For about a year, until yesterday, I was running in this space a microfiction series I wrote around 2006 or so, the “Splendid Little Lexicon.” It started out a sort-of gazetteer of an imagined fantasy setting and drifted into something … Continue reading →
