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The pale, blue-veined fingers plucked at the red wool blanket. “I wish I had something to leave to you, my boy.”

Arthur’s reply was measured, but the feeling he was holding in check was still visible. “You leave me a kingdom,” he said, “and the skills with which to lead it. You leave me a dream. I only hope, Grandfather, that I can bring it to fruition for you.”

Merlin’s eyes searched the carefully disciplined face of his grandson. At last he said in his slow, slurred speech, “I never expected you to forgive me.”

Arthur bowed his head. “It was not your fault,” he answered with difficulty. Merlin said nothing, just looked at the top of that ink-black head. This was a subject that had not been raised between them for ten long years.

“All my life, for almost as long as I remember, you have been there behind me,” Arthur finally said in a muffled voice. He raised his head and the emotion he had been so carefully guarding was naked in his brilliant eyes. “What am I going to do without you?” he asked. And Merlin, holding out his arms to receive the slim, hard-muscled body of his grandson, was suddenly, fiercely, happy.

Joan Wolf, The Road to Avalon

(via anincantationofstories)

siobhansadlers:

The Ladies Have Landed: an endless list of beautifully complex women
↳ Morgaine from The Mists of Avalon

Your motives may be nobler than hers, but you still move us around like pieces on a game board. What has my mother given up for your Avalon? My father died at Uther’s hands because of you. My poor innocent brother Arthur, who was a baby on my lap, and loved me as no other! And I loved him! Look what you’ve done to us. You’ve twisted our love, and turned it into shame, all for the sake of Avalon! No! I will not kill the child within me, but I will not let you take him to Avalon! I will not let you twist and bend him to your will! (…) He will never set foot in Avalon, Viviane! He will not be one of your pawns, and nor will I!

katiemcgrath:

Then King Arthur let send for all the children born on May-day, begotten of lords and born of ladies; for Merlin told King Arthur that he that should destroy him should be born on May-day, wherefore he sent for them all, upon pain of death; and so there were found many lords’ sons, and all were sent unto the king, and so was Mordred sent by King Lot’s wife, and all were put in a ship to the sea, and some were four weeks old, and some less. And so by fortune the ship drave unto a castle, and was all to-riven, and destroyed the most part, save that Mordred was cast up, and a good man found him, and nourished him till he was fourteen year old, and then he brought him to the court, as it rehearseth afterward, toward the end of the Death of Arthur.

— Le Morte d’Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory
Aneurin Barnard as Mordred

palespring:

♛ Morgan le Fay +  books  {7/ ∞}

le fay series  (realm lovejoy)    

“In the main room, a painting of Prince Arthur is on the wall. His vacant eyes look back at me, his red lips fixed into a smile he must have held for hours for the painter. What is he like in real life? What would it be like to be his Maven? I trust that, as a holy Pendragon, he will be a great king. After all, Pendragon the First was the most powerful magic user that ever lived; he defeated an entire army by himself. Having such lineage, Prince Arthur has the potential to become just as powerful. Out of respect, I bow before his painting”. Henge (Le Fay Series Book 1). 

Modern-day Camelot. Where knights no longer carry swords. Magic is dangerous. And those who seek control are not to be trusted. Sixteen-year-old Morgan le Fay is a fire user. An ordinary girl with an extraordinary skill, she has the ability to create and command fire at will. Her dream is to become the Maven—the right hand of the future King Arthur. In the chance of a lifetime, Morgan is selected to join Arthur’s Round, an elite group of young magic users from which the new Maven will be chosen. Along with the other fire, water, and wind users in Arthur’s Round, Morgan is rigorously trained and tested. The handsome Merlin, a brilliant water user, takes a particular interest in her. Is his friendship to be trusted, or is Merlin simply trying to win the position of Maven for himself? Among the many rivals Morgan faces is the current Maven, Mordred, who seems determined to see her fail. But Morgan has a secret—years ago, her mother was executed for using fire magic, and Morgan’s desire for justice makes her more than ready to take on the challenge before her. Can she prevail in Camelot’s tests of survival and magic? Only time—and Morgan’s powerful fire—will tell  (x).

palespring:

♛ Morgan le Fay + quotes {4/ ∞}

As I fell asleep, I wondered what Morgawse would make of the things that I had done. I doubt she would believe it. I would always be to her the quiet, bookish sister, who was half-nun, half-witch, but nothing of the world of real men and women. Still, I loved Morgawse as much as I hated her, and I would have given anything to have been able to protect her, from our stepfather, or from Lot.

The Witches of Avalon (Morgan: A Gripping Arthurian Fantasy Trilogy) – Lavinia Collins

Mordred: I hate you.
Gawain: It’s not my fault.
Mordred: You should have declared the conflict of interest at the beginning.
Gawain: There was no conflict in the beginning. I wasn’t involved in the queen’s plot at all until it was time to collect her winnings.
Mordred: Likely.
Gawain: Why are you mad at me? Gareth, Gaheris and Agravaine were involved, too.
Mordred: Their wives asked them to help carry the bottles. You were sworn to help the women and DIDN’T TELL ME.
Gawain: It’s common knowledge!
Mordred: MAYBE TEN YEARS AGO!
Gawain: How was I supposed to know they’d cover up Anna’s death? It’s my greatest shame.
Mordred: Feeling guilty will not prevent me from being angry with you.
Gawain: Why should it?

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