DXXI Pentecosta - la Cour de Camelot

Elle se tient à Camelot, en presence notamment du roi Uriens, de la reine Morgane la Fée, et de sire Yvain New Round Table Members Gaheris de Orkney Gossip

Ooh, Camelot is quite a palace isn't it? I never thought that men could build so fast. It is almost enough to make me think that Merlin's demons are working on it at night, though they could never have raised a church so quickly! Have you seen the "little church" yet? It is the size of Saint Paul's! What will the cathedral be like? And that keep and wall… don't you wish every lord in need could put one up so fast! The royal city already has more grand halls in it than all of London. And I cannot believe the measurements for that Round Table Room; are they going to hold tournaments inside it too?

It can't be Merlin, though. He is gone again, sleeping they say now. Everyone said dead before, but now they say sleeping. Those big spells really wear him out. Why do all the women who work magic appear so young and beautiful, and all the men get old and ugly?

News Gawaine Something happened over in the court of France, I have heard. It seems that two royal dependents, probably hostages if you ask me, got into a quarrel with the king's son, and in the fight killed him! The king was going to execute them, but they escaped. A druid told me they were turned into dogs to get away, if you can believe that. Royal Conversation The normal practice of warfare must not be followed within the realm of Britain. I know that it is necessary for knights to have war, but from this point onward it is necessary to wage only a chivalrous battle against other vassals of mine. In a chivalric siege, plunder of the commoners is forbidden. Soldiers must be paid wages and that is all. In fact, if the leaders can just fight it out against each other, or perhaps appoint champions, that it is so much the better for us all. I plan to create a vast collective brotherhood of all knights who wish to follow the ways of chivalry. Members will swear to me, as their liege lord, yet in every other way be their own lord's man. Intrigue Arthur's plan to obtain the liege oath of all knights is brilliant. It bypasses all the noblemen who might be troublesome and ties the knights directly to the king.