DXXXI a.D. - Camille capture Arthur
General Summary
La Cour de Pentecôte
A Camelot
Invités d'honneur
Sir Hervis de Revel, Duke of Anglia, petitioning for help
Sir Borre, son of Arthur
Sir Loholt, son of Arthur
Absents de la Cour
Sire Lancelot
Nouveaux membres de la Table Ronde
Galegantis of Nohaut, for his rescue of King Arthur in the Castle of Bones
The wars are over. The grand political objectives of the realm have been met. Peace reigns. Now is the time for all questing knights to explore the Kingdom of Adventure.
Conversations
“Well, well. Sir Perfect isn’t perfect after all! Where was Lancelot when the fighting came down in Ireland?”
“Well, he was in Cambria rescuing the Lady of the Butterfly, smiting the Giant Weasel of Appleby, smashing the Skull of Elva, subduing the bandit lord
Gregorius and his sister Gre—”
“Oh, posh. You are just saying that he did all those things. How could you know? He isn’t back yet to report it himself. You just want him to have done all those things.”
“No, what I want is for him to be my lover. And why not? Do you hear his poems to his Lady Mystery? I want to be loved like that!”
“Evil girl, that is just plain sin. You can’t be thinking and wanting that and hope to get a good husband. That kind of talk will be your downfall!”
Griflet: “Anglia is a danger to the realm now. Those rebels have gone too far, and Duke Hervis has not the strength to defeat them. I am going with a band of knights to help him.”
Kay: “Did you see that Sir Borre? Sir Boring if you ask me. His mother kept him in a cupboard a few years too long, and now he has no idea how to handle people. It sure makes me wonder about the notion that one’s blood passes traits to the son. The king is so intelligent and witty, but that boy…”
Gawaine: “The expedition to the Castle of Bones was too dangerous for our King. I won’t ever let him go on another one of those voyages, not if I can help it.”
Le retour de Gauvain
Gawaine returns to tell of a delightful land he has been visiting called the Land Beyond the Mountains. King Joran, who swept him away last year, was a wonderful host, and has a beautiful daughter whom Gawaine has just wed. He plans to stay here in Camelot just a short while, and then return home to his new wife.
Rébellion en Anglie
The Saxons of Anglia are once again rising up in revolt. They are led by Lady Camille, a powerful sorceress and priestess of Freija (the Teutonic goddess of magic, sex, and death). The rebels ambushed some knights and slew them all, and looted from them a chest of silver that they are now using to pay warriors from all over the Saxons lands. Arthur sends a force to quell the rebels.
Le tournoi de Wexford
With Ireland now pacified, King Anguish decides to hold a tournament at Wexford, in Leicester. Many newly made Irish knights come to fight, as well as most of the British knights who just received local land grants.
- Source: Malory VIII, 9–10.
- Sponsor: King Anguish.
- Type: Old style, Regional.
- Teams: Irish knights versus everyone.
- Prize: An ancient gold and silver necklace (£25).
Special Events: The tournament includes some dueling between traditional clan champions, and also some duels between knights and the winners of those exhibitions. These generally prove the value of the newer styles of armor.
Canon: The two champions at the tournament are a dark-skinned foreign gentleman named Sir Palomides and an unknown Cornish knight named Sir Tramtrist.
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The war in Ireland continues. The unruly Irish clan lords cannot agree on a leader among themselves, so they are defeated one by one by the troops of Sir Hugo, who then quickly builds a motte-and-bailey castle there to house one of his trusted men and a garrison.
When his confiscations get too extensive or brutal, then the local Irish assemble to fight him, but his mounted knights are able to crush them easily. Thus Sir Hugo and his companions consistently take more land in Ireland all summer.
Every knight with him is getting a manor, at least!
La rébellion de Camille
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Royal: “Things are going well again! The Angles have been put in their place once more. We are glad for the help of the good Lady Nimue, whose wishes for her people will be honored by me and all the kingdom.”