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Of all the female characters in the Arthurian legend, Morgana is the most powerful, even more so than Merlin. Merlin may be a powerful prophet, Morgana is the practitioner. Merlin sees what can go wrong, Morgana accomplishes it. Morgana considers Merlin a somewhat tiresome old man, and it is fitting that it is her derivative character, Nimue, who finally divests Merlin of his power and confines him to his crystal cave.
Morgana must still be smiling through the mists.

Sara Douglass, “The Betrayal of Arthur” (via mythaelogy)

you wanna fight? alright let’s take this outside! the stars are so bright tonight. the moon looks so nice. hold my hand

mordred to galahad probably (via arthurianmisquotes)

Children are never too old to be controlled. It’s just like chess, children are the pawns and you are the queen.

Morgause (via arthurianmisquotes)

I myself beheld the King
Charge at the head of all his Table Round,
And all his legions crying Christ and him,
And break them; and I saw him, after, stand
High on a heap of slain, from spur to plume
Red as the rising sun with heathen blood,
And seeing me, with a great voice he cried,
“They are broken, they are broken!” for the King,
However mild he seems at home, nor cares
For triumph in our mimic wars, the jousts—
For if his own knight cast him down, he laughs
Saying, his knights are better men than he—
Yet in this heathen war the fire of God
Fills him: I never saw his like: there lives
No greater leader.

Alfred Tennyson
(via lesavagedamsel)

Now Sir Launcelot wandered errant for many days, meeting no adventure of any moment, but taking great joy in all that he beheld of the wide world about him, and in that time he found lodging wheresoever he chanced to be (if not in house, then beneath the skies), and he endured all sorts of weather, both wet and dry.

Howard Pyle (via lesavagedamsel)

She smiled back at him – an honest, straight-to-her-core sort of smile that said she was a little embarrassed, and going out on a limb by telling him that. His hand reached forward, almost without him noticing. His fingers touched hers. Her smile waned a bit, but she didn’t look away from him. If anything, her eyes became just a little more intense. Then, light flooded the room as the door opened.
Both Arthur and Guinevere pulled their hands away on reflex.
“There he is,” Kay said.
Arthur pursed his lips together at his brother’s timing.
“Is this a private party, or can any knights join?”
“Wait, wait! Tory said, stopping Kay and Balin, half way through the door. “Were you two having a moment just now?”
“No! the two of them replied.
"Not at all!”
“We were just…”
“Arthur didn’t want anybody downstairs to see that he was up here…”
“So leave the lights off, because…”
“Oh my Grail,” Tory said. “We crashed your moment.

The Sins of the Father (The Pendragon Armada #2)

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Sean Rourke & Bill Murphy

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(via ancelstierre)

Fro the Maryage of Kynge Uther unto Kyng Arthure that Regned Aftir Hym and Ded Many Batayles

Le Morte d’Arthur

I was kinda surprised to learn it’s actual Middle English and not some modern form of Internet slang.

(via volnaib)

The Arthurian Smut Cycle will be three volumes of the Arthurian story in a way you’ve never seen it before. I’m aiming to illustrate the entire saga of King Arthur through Merlin’s perspective… but a really hot, gay Merlin. No more ancient beardy Merlins creeping on Vivaine until she has to trap him under a rock, my friends. No more super-hetero medieval knights who m’lady their way through a Hollywood-medieval fever-dream. I want to show you the beauty of middle ages and the disastrously hot homosociality, homoeroticism and homosexual traditions of medieval chivalric society. I want to make you laugh and cry and, yeah, admittedly turn you on a bit with stories of gay love and sex in a climate where such things are valued and–you could even say–encouraged, and not everyone dies tragically at the end.

Soren Häxan (via professorerudite)

Kay’s brow was trembling from everything he was processing. The sounds of his men, cheering, filled the air.
His brother’s blistered hand was pressing against his heart. And, Arthur was still wearing the same shoddy piece-meal armor with the letters EMP stenciled across the front.
Kay pulled his brother in for a tight hug. More cheers erupted from the steps, and soldiers from the EMP stormed the peak, swarming around the two.
“Still my brother, eh?” Kay said to him.
“No wizard can change that,” Arthur replied.

The Sword of the King (The Pendragon Armada #1) |
Sean Rourke & Bill Murphy

7/∞ Arthurian quotes

(via ancelstierre)

Myrddin, for his part, hung back to the last, coming to a halt in front of King Arthur after everyone else had entered the tent. The two men studied each other for a long moment, and then Arthur stuck out his hand to Myrddin. For the first time in his life, Myrddin clasped forearms with his King, one man to another, before they turned together into the tent.

Cold My Heart (The Lion of Wales #1-3) |
Sarah Woodbury

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(via ancelstierre)