It’s my birthday today! But that’s neither here nor there. Balin and Susie ride through the woods. Susie knows where they’re going, but she’s not giving Balin any more information than she needs to, on the grounds that he’s as … Continue reading →
As I said yesterday, Lot and the eleven kings on his side in the battle against Arthur, which group of kings overlaps with but is not identical to the kings in Team Lot & Mister 100 from Book I, they … Continue reading →
Arthur gets all his knights together, forewarned as he is about Nero’s attack, and he sallies forth in hopes of getting the drop on Nero. But Nero is ready and champing at the bit and he has more men than … Continue reading →
We skip ahead a few hours, and Arthur and Merlin are riding up the road and come to a familiar-looking pavilion. “I recognize this tent,” says Arthur. “It’s the tent of that villain Pelli–” “It’s the tent of King Pellinore, … Continue reading →
A few minutes later, Arthur comes to, with no permanent brain damage from having been knocked unconscious, so that’s how far back it goes, this genre convention of bashing someone on the head and they collapse but wake up fresh … Continue reading →
The mystery knight feels a little bad about beating on Sir Griflet, who might grow up to be a great knight eventually, so he gets down off his horse and helps Griflet up, and Griflet’s bleeding pretty badly but the … Continue reading →
So Morgan le Fay and Igraine are at Arthur’s court, and before anyone says two words of greeting Sir Ulfius stands up and starts hurling invective. He’s been sitting on this hurt for a long time, and he gets all … Continue reading →
Margawse comes back into the picture at this point. You may have forgotten her: she’s Arthur’s older half-sister, child of Igraine and Igraine’s first husband Gorlas. Uther married her off to Lot before he died. Now Margqwse is the Queen … Continue reading →
