KING ARTHUR

THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

 SUPERSTITION
• ARTHUR IS NOT DEAD
• HE AND HIS KNIGHTS ARE INSIDE THE TOR
AT GLASTONBURY
• EVERY CHRISTMAS THEY RIDE OUT TO
PROTECT THE COUNTRY AND MAKE
EVERYTHING SAFE FOR THE BIRTH OF THE
CHRIST CHILD
• OTHERS BELIEVE HE BECOMES A RAVEN,
THE MOST PROPHETIC OF ALL BIRDS AND
THE CELTIC WAR GODDESS (THE
MORRIGAN)
SAINT MICHAEL’S TOWER ON GLASTONBURY TOR
AN ISLAND DURING ARTHUR’S TIME
GLASTONBURY ABBEY
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA’S
THORN BUSH
THE GRAIL WELL
 LEY LINES
THE VORTICE
 DION FORTUNE AND THE
GOLDEN DAWN
the psychic force field used against
Hitler
THE COTTAGE USED BY THE
GOLDEN DAWN DURING
WW II
STANDING
STONES
MARKING
LEY LINES
ARTURUS REX DUX BELLORUM
• HISTORICAL ARTHUR
• SAXON WARS
 ARTHUR
THE ENGLISH HERCULES

• DOUBTFUL BIRTH
• PAINFUL LIFE (12 VICTORIES
AGAINST THE SAXONS)
• VIOLENT AND WOEFUL DEATH
SOURCE OF ENGLISH LEGEND
• MORTE D’ARTHUR
• THOMAS MALORY
• 8 BOOKS
1. THE BIRTH AND CROWNING OF ARTHUR
2. THE INVASION OF FRANCE AND ROME
3. LANCELOT
4. GARETH
5. TRISTAM AND ISOLDE
6. QUEST FOR THE GRAIL
7. ROMANCE OF LANCELOT AND GUINEVERE
8. WAR
 OTHER SOURCES
• MIDDLE ENGLISH PROSE MERLIN
• FRENCH PROSE, LANCELOT
• A LOST ENGLISH POEM
• FRENCH PROSE, TRISTAN
• QUEST DE SAINT GRAAL
• WELSH MABINOGIAN
• HISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIAE
• DE EXCIDIO ET CONQUESTU BRITANNIAE
BROCELIANDE
GOOD FAERIES OF
THE WELL
EVIL FAERIES OF
THE MOUNTAIN
THE PRINCESS
WAS IMPRISONED
IN A TALL TOWER
IN THE CENTER
OF THE FOREST.
NO CARE WAS
TAKEN TO BLESS
THE ONLY
WINDOW WITH
GOOD FAERIE
WATER.
THE EVIL
FAERIES’
CHANCE HAD
FINALLY COME.
THE OLD
WOMAN HEAVED
THE BABY INTO
THE ANCIENT
WELL.
MERLIN, THE FAERIE PRINCE OF BROCELIANDE
 VORTIGERN
PENDRAGON

EVIL KING WHO

DELIVERS THE KINGDOM
TO THE SAXONS IN
HIS ATTEMPT TO GAIN
ALLIES IN HIS BID TO
BECOME HIGH KING
 UTHER

DISPOSSESSED MAN
WHO LEADS AN ARMY
OF MALCONTENTS
 GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS GORLOIS
DUKE OF CORNWALL

AND HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE, IGRAINE

MERLIN COMES TO THE WORLD WHEN MAUGANTIUS THE FALSE
ADVISES VORTIGERN TO SACRIFICE A BOY, AND USE
HIS BLOOD TO MIX WITH THE MORTER; THEN HE MAY RAISE
A GREAT KEEP TO PROTECT HIM FROM BATTLE.
VORTIGERN PENDRAGON IS IMMOLATED IN HIS KEEP
GORLOIS SURRENDERS
MERLIN CONJURES A CHILD
• MERLIN'S SPELL
UTHER AND IGRAINE
MERLIN COLLECTS HIS PRIZE

A CHILD FOR A NIGHT OF LUST

IGRAINE WILL NOT LEAVE THE

WINDOW…SHE DOES NOT EAT
OR SLEEP AWAITING THE
RETURN OF THE BABY

MORGANA, HER DAUGHTER

TRIES TO COAX HER BACK TO
THE WORLD AND FAILS

UTHER PROMISES TO FIND

THE BOY

UTHER RIDES OUT

NATURE VERSUS NURTURE
• MERLIN EXPERIMENTS WITH THE
RAISING OF ARTHUR
• WILL THE BOY’S TAINTED
PENDRAGON BLOOD RULE HIS
DESTINY
• CAN HIS NUTURING SAVE HIM?
• THE BOY IS RAISED BY HECTOR, A
COUNTRY KNIGHT
 TOURNAMENT
• HECTOR TAKES HIS SON KAY AND YOUNG
ARTHUR TO THE EASTER TOURNAMENT
• KAY IS ENTERING THE LIST FOR THE FIRST
TIME
• ARTHUR IS HIS SQUIRE AND FAILS TO
SAFEGUARD KAY’S EQUIPMENT
• THE BOY PULLS THE SWORD OF
PENDRAGON FROM THE STONE SO HIS
FOSTER BROTHER WILL NOT LOSE HIS
CHANCE
 A BOY BECOMES KING
BY DRAWING THE SWORD OF
PENDRAGON FROM THE STONE
• THE SWORD IN THE STONE
 FOR EVERY KING, A QUEEN

THE DAUGHTER OF LEODOGRANCE OF CAMELIARD

CARLISLE
CAMELOT
 A ROUND TABLE
NO MAN IS GREATER THAN ANOTHER
 THE ORKNEY FACTION
• CHILDREN OF MORGANA, ARTHUR’S
HALF SISTER
• GAWAIN
• AGGRAVAIN
• GARETH AND GAHERIS
• MORDRED PENDRAGON
• PURPOSE IS TO DESTROY MERLIN
AND ARTHUR FOR THE DESTRUCTION
OF IGRAINE
 THE EMPTY SEATS
• ONE FOR THE ADVISOR
• ONE FOR THE QUEEN’S
CHAMPION
• ONE FOR THE GRAIL
CHAMPION, THE SEAT
PERILOUS
 KING PELLINORE
THE ADVISOR
• PELLINORE LEARNS ABOUT COMMON LAW
• WARRIOR KING
• MADMAN WHO HAS LOST HIS FAMILY AND
KINGDOM
• QUESTING BEAST
• BRILLIANT STRATEGIST
• BELIEVES THE KING SHOULD BE ABOVE
THE LAW
• SOMETIMES THE FATHER OF PERCEVAL
 LANCELOT
QUEEN’S CHAMPION
• KING BORS AND QUEEN ELAINE
• SEIGE AND BIRTH
• THE BOY IS RAISED BY THE QUEEN
OF THE GOOD FAIRIES
• SENT TO FIND A KING STRONG AND
GOOD ENOUGH TO SERVE
• THERE MUST BE A DUEL
LANCELOT DIVIDES THE TABLE
• THE CHALLENGE
 EXCALIBUR
THE SWORD OF THE DRAGON
• DELIVERED TO ARTHUR BY NIMUE,
LADY OF THE LAKE
• SHE IS MERLIN’S GREATEST
WEAKNESS…HIS HUMAN
SIDE LOVES HER
• SHE IS THE HANDMAIDEN
OF THE DRAGON WHO IS
SENT TO TEST ARTHUR AND
HIS RESOLVE
• LATER, SHE WILL BE USED
TO DESTROY MERLIN
 LANCELOT LEAVES CAMELOT

• ELAINE, THE LADY OF SHALOTT

• ELAINE OF PERILOUS
• A BEWITCHED MARRIAGE
• DREAMS AND WASTING
• THE HERO RETURNS TO HIS HEART
• GUINEVERE AND ELAINE FORCE HIM
TO CHOOSE
DIRE DECISION
 ELAINE OF PERILOUS
• ELAINE GIVES BIRTH TO A SON
• GALAHAD, THE PERFECT
• HE IS EXPOSED TO ALL THAT IS GOOD
AND ALL THAT IS EVIL
• HE CHOOSES TO BE GOOD
• GALAHAD IS THE SEAT PERILOUS
• THE GRAIL KNIGHT
 SLANDER AND STRIFE
• AGGRAVAIN AND MORDRED EXPOSE LANCELOT
AND GUINEVERE
• THE QUEEN STANDS TRIAL
• LANCELOT ESCAPES TO JOYOUS GARDE
• GUINEVERE IS SENTENCESD TO BURN
• LANCELOT AND HIS COUSINS ARRIVE TO SAVE
HER
• UNARMED GARETH AND GAHERIS ARE KILLED
• BLOOD FEUD ENSUES BETWEEN LANCELOT AND
GAWAIN
 ARTHUR WITHERS
AND THE TABLE SPLITS
• MORDRED RIDES TO THE NORTH
WITH SOME OF THE KNIGHTS
• THE STORY DIVIDES AT THIS POINT
• SOME VERSIONS SEND ARTHUR TO
WAR IN FRANCE WITH LANCELOT
• OTHERS START THE GRAIL
SEQUENCES THEN MOVE TO WAR IN
FRANCE
 LOSS OF THE ADVISOR
• PELLINORE IS LOST WHILE ON GRAIL
QUEST
• HE SAVES NIMUE FROM THE BLACK KNIGHT
• SHE RETURNS TO CAMELOT AND TESTS
ARTHUR
• WHEN SHE MEETS MORGANA, SHE
BECOMES VIVIAN
• VIVIAN AND MORGANA IMPRISON MERLIN IN
EITHER A CRYSTAL CAVE OR AN OAK TREE
CARBONEK
THE QUEST OF
THE GRAIL
•A SEPARATION OF
MAN FROM THE
GROUP
•THE SACRED
JOURNEY WITHIN
ONESELF
•THE GRAIL IS A
METAPHOR FOR THE
HUMAN BODY
CONTAINING THE
HOLY SPIRIT
THE FOUR HALLOWS

SPEAR
SWORD
PATEN
GRAIL
 THE GRAIL PROCESSION
OBSERVED BY PERCEVAL AT CARBONEK
• A SQUIRE WITH A BLEEDING LANCE
• TWO SQUIRES WITH TEN-BRANCHED
CANDELABRAS
• A MAIDEN WITH A BLOODY PLATE,
SOMETIMES WITH A HEAD FLOATING IN
THE BLOOD
• THE MAIDEN WITH THE GRAIL
 THE GRAIL SWORD
• TREBUCHET
• SHATTERED WHEN IT STRUCK GOON
DESERT
• TIP WEDGED IN FISHER KING’S GROIN
• MAKING IT WHOLE AND HEALING THE
KING IS PART OF THE QUEST
• THE KNIGHT MUST SUCCESSFULLY
FACE DOUBT
 GAWAIN

•THE HAWK OF THE

MAY
•THE MARION
KNIGHT
•WORTHY OF THE
GRAIL, BUT FLAWED
•DEVOTION TO
WOMEN IS HIS
MAJOR FLAW
•HE IS IMPETUOUS
PERCEVAL, THE
GRAIL KING
•POSSIBLY THE SON OF
PELLINORE…HE TOO IS
OFTEN LOST
•RAISED BY MOTHER IN THE
WOODS…HE IS THE
INNOCENT FOOL
•FIGHTS UNTRAINED FOR
ARTHUR AND IS KNIGHTED
•MEETS THE FISHER KING AND
FAILS TO ASK, “WHAT IS THE
GRAIL, AND WHOM DOES IT
SERVE
•WANDERS 5 YEARS, SUFFERS
MANY TRIALS
•FINALLY ASKS THE QUESTION
AND HEALS THE FISHER KING
 GALAHAD
THE
PERFECT
KNIGHT
*** ACCORDING
HE IS THE TO THE
ONLY ONE QUESTE, HE
WORTHY TO CARRIES THE
CARRY THE GRAIL TO
GRAIL CAMELOT,
TAKES HIS
*** SEAT AT THE
THE GRAIL IS TABLE, AND
CARRIED TO HEALS THE
HEAVEN BY A KING
HAND AFTER
THE DEATH
OF GALAHAD
 MALORY
• THE USUAL CHOICE CHANGES
• THE GRAIL KNIGHTS WHO ARE
SUCCESSFUL ARE GALAHAD,
PERCEVAL, AND BORS
• BORS RETURNS TO CAMELOT
ALONE, WITH THE HOLY GRAIL
 FINAL BATTLE
• FINAL BATTLE
• MORDRED ATTACKS CAMELOT WHILE ARTHUR IS
LAYING SEIGE TO LANCELOT’S CASTLE
• MORTALLY WOUNDED GAWAIN DIES ON THE
JOURNEY BACK TO ENGLAND
• A TRUCE IS CALLED BETWEEN ARTHUR AND
MORDRED
• SNAKE BITES A KNIGHT WHO RAISES HIS
SWORD…ITS FLASH CALLS THE SIDES TO BATTLE
• ARCHETYPAL BATTLE BETWEEN FATHER AND
SON
 DEATH OF ARTHUR
• ARTHUR'S LAST MOMENTS
• BEDEVERE IS THE LAST MAN STANDING
• ARTHUR ASKS THAT HE RETURN EXCALIBUR
TO THE WATER
• WHEN HE FINALLY DOES AS THE KING ASKS, A
HAND RISES AND SNATCHES THE SWORD FROM
THE AIR
• MYSTICAL QUEENS ARRIVE IN A BARGE AND
TAKE ARTHUR AWAY TO THE ISLE OF AVALON…
WHERE HE WAITS FOR ENGLAND TO NEED HIM
AGAIN….HE IS THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING!