(Found in The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend, by Elizabeth Archibald)
Courtly Love in Action, for Arthur this time...
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Ms. McCracken asking the real questions here
Made a design for the Lady of the Lake cuz she was a minor character in my fanfic but then got attached to her so here’s a bunch of doodles.
Yeah, the first thing i do when i open a custom character game it's do my favorite characters/new obsession, what so?
@lancedoncrimsonwings @dinogod
Also, I'm bored, so use this post to tag someone to share something about their favourite characters.
Don't know If this works but, It's worth the shot.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
How extra am I?
Well I got bored at work so I decided to use a UK map to plot out locations from Cursed based off what little of their maps we do see so I could do reasonable travel distances and scenery etc...
(I then found a whole host of continuity errors in terms of distance and their maps are wildly inaccurate as per the time period BUT what I've done at least works for the most part)
Here Dewdenn is likely at the base of the River Severn, so a touch North of where I placed it, because I decided Yvoire Abbey needed to be right by the river (since Nimue boated out) and Hawksbridge should be at a port, yet the journey needs to be feasible in a day, whilst Gramaire and the Encampments needed a forest, open plains, and to be near enough to Hawksbridge and Dewdenn as travel between would take no more than 1-2 days)
(Red line at the bottom of that pic = 20 miles)
Sooo Dewdenn is now a little further South 20 miles from Gramaire and Yvoire Abbey, and Hawksbridge is 15 miles or so from Yvoire Abbey (wanted it to be closer but alas)
The Minotaur Mountains are now the Pennines, as it's the only ridge of mountains across the center that really works, and Nemos is in the base of the Pennines in Sherwood Forest, whilst Moycraig- the last farm supplying Nemos- is 5ish miles outside Sherwood Forest.
Beggar's Coast was definitely filmed on the south coast, and makes sense for a nickname for the English Channel, so I chose the closest viable point for the battlesite at the end of Cursed/King Uther's ships. It would have taken at least 2 days to get there from Gramaire, but both the book and series are loose on how long it actually took, soooo this will have to do.
Since the Paladins were "from the south", needed easy access to the English Channel to be able to travel to Rome (Likely via France), and Dorset was featured so heavily on their map, I've chosen that as their "main" base, though I plan to add Red Paladin Encampments, Human towns and cities and Fey Villages throughout.
Now to add their journey by Chapter because I am a fucking ass who can't visualise and needs to be able to see it to make sense of it!
If you read all this, you're a legend- or very bored. Or both. (Probably both after this)
(Chapter 1) (Masterlist)
Listen i know i haven't posted anything about Lancelot in a good while but HEAR ME OUT. Lancelot, the weeping monk, as an Ares/Mars devotee.
First of all, some posts ago i wrote about maybe giving Lancelot greek-roman hellenism as his born religion. AND ARES IS JUST THE PERFECT CHOICE. And yes, this is his new religion cause, first, i am hellenistic, so this is a religion i can talk with a bit of property without commiting big mistakes and making shit, and second because France was submessive to Rome for a very long time.
Ok, now listen to the parallels.
Ares is the god of war and bloodshed, and very are scared of him cause he doesn't hide his bloody nature. Guess what happen' to Lancelot?
Yes, Ares is the god of bloodshed and a scary man at first, but he could love and protect you like no else if letted him. We can say the same about Lancelot.
He's a great father and protector of women, just like our monk boy.
I wasn't even going to do this joke, but he was a lover, guess who else was one?- ok, sorry.
Ares is saw as a scary man, addicted to war and considered and weapon for those who don't know him (saying this based on a real expirience) , and so is Lancelot, saw as a scary weapon.
His sacred animal is a dog. A fucking dog. Excuse me, but the "Daniel Sharman is a doberman" post says everything.
He's also a great lover and the best warrior.
Ares is red, therefore, having Ares as a new red reference would help him with his discomfort with the color red because of the red paladins.
Ares loving his devotee for never denying who he is and overcoming his traumas. Giving him his bless in battles and Lancelot all happy for having agod who matches him and love and accept him as the weird litte problematic thing he is.
I'll make a longer post later but for now it's decided, Lancelot is now an Ares/Mars and Hestia/Vesta devotee.
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HE IS MY HEADBOARD!! OMFGS I NEVER THOUGHT I'D FIND THE ORIGINAL POST HERE!
I was drawing.
I tried to make the face of Gawain, the green knight from Cursed.
I remember that I don't know how to draw faces and I fail miserably at making his face.
I want to kill myself and burn the drawing for this.
I remember he wears a helmet.
I put the helmet on him instead of having to draw his face and continue drawing as if I wasn't pulling my hair in pure rage just a moment ago.
I'm become happy till happend another incident. (Which hasn't happened yet)
we’re so back w more arthuriana shitposts!!
lancelot
gawain
kay
morgan
galahad
dinadan
agravaine
mordred
arthur
guinevere
Me reading: Helient, Ilene, Lady of the lake- LADY OF THE LAKE?! GAWAIN SLEPT WITH LANCELOT'S MOM?!?
is there a list of all the women gawain had been with?
Aislyn (see Ragnelle)
Aleta (Prince Valiant (1954))
Amie (Beaudous by Robert de Blois)
Amurfina (The Crown by Heinrich von dem Türlin)
Antikonie (Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Arcade/Ettarde (Post-Vulgate/Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory)
Beauté (Gilglois)
Bertilak, Lady (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger)
Blanchadine (Floriant et Florete)
Blanchemal the Fay (Le Bel Inconnu)
Bloiesine (4th Perceval Continuation)
Carlisle, Daughter of (The Carle of Carlisle)
Carlisle, Lady (The Carle of Carlisle)
Elaine of Astolat (The Legend of King Arthur (1979))
Elidan (Hawk of May by Gillian Bradshaw)
Emma (see Ragnelle)
Enid the Faultless (Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven)
Essel (The Green Knight (2021))
Florée (Le Livre d'Artus)
Florie of Syria (Wigalois by Wirnt von Grafenberg)
Gay Maiden (Pulzella Gaia)
Guilorete of Lis (1st Perceval Continuation, Perceval (1978))
Gwendolen (The Masque of Gwendolen by Reginald Heber)
Halaés (Le Livre d'Artus)
Helient of North Wales (Vulgate)
Ilene (Prince Valiant (1954))
Lady of the Lake (Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger)
Linet (Gawain and the Green Knight (1973), Sword of the Valiant (1984))
Lorie of Roche Florie (The Marvels of Rigomer)
Luned/Lunette (The Lady of the Well, Yvain, Ywain, Iwein, Íven)
Marjorie (Gawain and Marjorie)
Morgana (Excalibur (1981))
Olwen (Arthur the Bear of Britain by Edward Frankland)
Orgeluse the Haughty (Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Ragnelle (Loathly Lady Master Post)
Raquel (see Ragnelle)
Risa (see Ragnelle)
Risa (Guinevere by Sharan Newman)
Rosalie (The Mantel)
Schartine of China (Gabein)
Tanrée (2nd Perceval Continuation)
Venelas (Le Mantel Mautaillié)
Ydain (The Lancelot Compilation)
Ysabele (Roman Van Walewein)
Sources supplemented by The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce, The Arthurian Handbook by Norris J. Lacy and Geoffrey Ashe, and my own knowledge. If there's a lady I missed, don't hesitate to say so, and I'll add her!
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