Post by Tarq on Feb 27, 2007 23:07:27 GMT -5
For Threnn, and anyone else who feels like working their way through this nightmare.
Numbers before the slash denote Arthur's age; numbers after the slash denote the year from the beginning of the books.
The Early Years
-3: Ambrose Aurelius dies; Kay is born.
-2: Uther Pendragon is crowned King of Britain, ruling from Carlion. Gorles of Cornwall is the first to revolt.
-1: Uther takes Tintagel and kills Gorles, and claims his wife Igraine as his Queen.
0: Arthur Pendragon is born.
2: Arthur, his birth doubtful, is fostered to Ector and raised as his ward, Kay's foster-brother.
7: Uther's advisor Merlin goes to tutor Arthur and Kay. Lot MacLuth becomes King of Lothian and weds Morgause of Cornwall, then fifteen.
8: Gawaine is born.
9: Lancelot, Agravaine, and Guinevere are born.
10: Gaheris is born; Cedric of Saxony becomes a clan chieftain.
11: Kay becomes squire to Prince Geldan Pellinore of Lincoln; Edris de Liones weds Elaine of Cornwall.
12: Tristan is born. Geldan Pellinore becomes King of Lincoln.
14: Uther is badly wounded fighting Saxons. Elaine of Corbin is born.
15: Uther dies of his wounds; his sword (the sword of Maximus of Rome) is placed in a churchstone. Kay is knighted in London, and while there Arthur draws the sword and Merlin tells him of his birth. The wars of succession begin after the sword disappears. Ector de Maris is born.
16: Gareth is born, as is Lyonel.
17: Urwens of Wales marries Morgaine, and Edris de Liones claims Cornwall. Bors is born.
18: Arthur declares as the rightful heir. Bedwyr of Rheged, King Pellinore, and many of Uther's old followers rally to him. Uwaine is born to Morgaine and Urwens.
19: Arthur takes Carlion and Londin. The warring kings begin to take him seriously.
20: Lot makes a pact with five kings, and they take the field against Arthur and are defeated. King Pellinore goes to Brittany to speak with King Ban de Benuic, and then on to Flanders, where he weds King Bors's sister-in-law.
21: Arthur travels to Brittany, leaving his holdings in the hands of Bedwyr and Kay, to aid Ban and Bors against the Gallic tribes. Cedric begins uniting the Saxons.
22: The Gauls are defeated, and Arthur returns to England, where he smashes the largest indepdenent Saxon tribe. Griflet, only sixteen, earns his knighthood.
23: Lot forms the alliance of the Eleven Kings, a time-consuming process. Arthur marshals his forces, while Kay begins building a great stronghold on a hill called Camelot. Lamorak is born.
24: The Battle of Bedegraine. Arthur triumphs.
Book One
24/0: The submission at Camelot. The three older MacLuth boys join Arthur's court. Lancelot, Tristan, and many of the future knights meet for the first time.
25/1: Mordred is born, and passed off as a son of Lot's old age. Cedric of Saxony is murdered by his followers, and his son Cerdig begins putting together what hold he can over the remaining tribes.
26/2: The Saxon tribes try again, taking Carlion and killing Sir Alfias. Merlin goes to Surloise and negotiates an alliance with King Leo de Grance.
27/3: The Battle of Mount Badon. The Saxons are decisively shattered, and Cerdig bends the knee and becomes Christian. King Pellinore kills King Lot in a duel. Several of Uther's old followers die. Arthur weds Guinevere de Grance and establishes the Round Table; Gawaine is the first man knighted by Arthur's own hand.
28/4: Lancelot comes to court, and helps Gawaine's brothers earn their knighthoods by bringing the Duke of Cambenet to justice - and earns his own as well, overshadowing them and earning Agravaine's emnity.
29/5: The beginning of the famous quests – as well as the affair between Lancelot and Guinevere. They are both twenty. Lancelot kills Carados and Turquine. Bors, Lionel and Ector come to court.
30/6: Merlin dies, and Morgaine comes to court with Urwens as his replacement, bringing their son Uwaine and the sword Excalibur as a token of the fealty of the northern pagans. She soon arranges the marriage of Elaine and Lancelot. The quests and the pacification of Britian continue.
31/7: Galahad is born. Gawaine visits Orkney, and at Morgause's urging kills King Pellinore in revenge for his father's death.
Book Two
33/9: Gareth comes to court in disguise, as a humble kitchen page. Old Ector dies. Tristan is knighted and proclaimed Arthur's heir until he should get a son on Guinevere. A Tuscan lord named Lucius claims the old standards of Rome and sets himself up as a dictator. England gets steadily more and more civilized; Arthur's armies take on the daunting task of civilizing Ireland. Lyonel, Bors, and Ector de Maris all earn their knighthoods in the next four years.
37/13: Gareth defeats the Persian knight calling himself the Lord of the Red Lands, earning his knighthood and revealing his identity. His knighting is interrupted by emissaries of "Emperor" Lucius, demanding tribute of Arthur.
38/14: Lucius invades Brittany, and the Roman campaign begins. Arthur's armies sail to France while Kay, Guinevere and Morgaine rule. In the ensuing wars, the usual suspects distinguish themselves, and Lamorak Pellinore earns his knighthood at fifteen. Griflet, Grumore, Lucan the Butler and King Bors are among the slain. King Pelles puts down a few Saxons in England, with the unlikely aid of Cerdig himself.
42/18: The Roman campaign ends with the death of Lucius, and most of mainland Europe pays tribute to Arthur. The conquering heroes return to an England at peace.
44/20: Morgause tells Mordred that she is his foster-mother, and he is a bastard of Arthur's, and sends him to Camelot to seek his knighthood. Morgaine warns Arthur not to trust him or Morgause, and they quarrel badly over religion and other things; he banishes her from court.
45/21: Urged on and sorcerously aided by a vengeful Morgaine, Accolon ap Urwens seeks to unseat Arthur and end decades of Christian rule. Mordred's counsel helps Arthur overcome the treachery, and he knights Mordred.
47/23: Galahad comes to court and earns his knighthood in record time. Morgaine and Morgause work together to instill a vision of the Holy Grail that draws the knights on quest and splinters the power of Camelot. Lamorak and Mordred are the only two whole knights to remain behind; Bedwyr finally announces his retirement, crippled by gout. Many knights die on the quest, and Lancelot goes mad.
48/24: The knights return one by one, reporting failure. Fantastic tales are told of Galahad and Lancelot, but also Bors de Galles and the simple-minded Percival Pellinore. Cerdig of Saxony, seeing a chance for power, takes Dornar Pellinore captive under spurious accusations. Galahad achieves the Grail and the peace of death.
Book Three
48/24: Lancelot and Bors return two weeks before Pentecost with the body of Galahad. Lancelot and Gawaine aid Lamorak in retrieving his brother and killing Cerdig, and Gawaine takes Lamorak on a visit to Lothian, where he is seduced by Morgause. She comes to Camelot, leaving Agravaine to rule in Lothian.
49/25: Melwas, a bastard of King Leo, abducts Guinevere, and is killed by Lancelot as he and Lamorak rescue her. They resume their affair, and Elaine kills herself (out of grief for Galahad, presumably.)
50/26: Agravaine returns to Camelot for Pentecost, discovers his mother with Lamorak, and butchers her; he blames the murder on Lamorak, who becomes a fugitive. In a posthumous letter from his mother, Mordred learns of his true parentage and dedicates himself to bringing Arthur down.
51/27: Gawaine finally hunts down and kills Lamorak. Pinel begins the Poisoned Apple Scandal. Mordred manipulates King Mark to kill Tristan, leaving Arthur without a clear heir.
53/29: Morgaine visits in secret and is cajoled into helping Mordred. She goes to win him the allegiance of the pagans of the North and Ireland, while Mordred himself makes a pact with Vornagor, Cerdig's heir and the greatest chief in Saxony. Agravaine and Mordred begin plotting to bring down Lancelot.
54/30: Arthur declares Mordred his heir.
55/31: Agravaine confesses his murder of Morgause, and Gawaine disowns him. Gawaine, Gareth and Gaheris warn the Frenchmen of Agravaine's plot, but he goes through with it at Mordred's urging. Lancelot and Guinevere are caught, but Lancelot kills Agravaine and flees with Guinevere. Open battle breaks out in Camelot, and Lancelot kills Gareth in his escape, while Bors cuts down Gaheris. He and Guinevere flee to Surloise, while Lyonel, Bors and Ector prepare their own lands for war. Arthur and Gawaine muster their remaining forces to do justice.
56/32: Guinevere negotiates a peace to break the siege of Surloise and returns to Camelot with Arthut, but Gawaine will not give up the blood feud. He takes the other Frnench castles and besieges Lancelot and his family and supporters in Benuic.
58/34-59/35: CRAZY SHIT HAPPENS. No spoilers cause while we all know how it ends, I tell it a little differently.
My issue is balancing the ages of Galahad and Lamorak, specifically, with the Roman campaign and Grail quest and shit like that. Specifically, Lamorak is 25 when he begins his affair with Morgause, and I would have liked to make him younger – but I also want him to have fought in the Roman wars. Galahad, meanwhile, has to be old enough to take part in the Grail quest and kick people's asses, but Lancelot can't marry Elaine too early. It's tricky.
Numbers before the slash denote Arthur's age; numbers after the slash denote the year from the beginning of the books.
The Early Years
-3: Ambrose Aurelius dies; Kay is born.
-2: Uther Pendragon is crowned King of Britain, ruling from Carlion. Gorles of Cornwall is the first to revolt.
-1: Uther takes Tintagel and kills Gorles, and claims his wife Igraine as his Queen.
0: Arthur Pendragon is born.
2: Arthur, his birth doubtful, is fostered to Ector and raised as his ward, Kay's foster-brother.
7: Uther's advisor Merlin goes to tutor Arthur and Kay. Lot MacLuth becomes King of Lothian and weds Morgause of Cornwall, then fifteen.
8: Gawaine is born.
9: Lancelot, Agravaine, and Guinevere are born.
10: Gaheris is born; Cedric of Saxony becomes a clan chieftain.
11: Kay becomes squire to Prince Geldan Pellinore of Lincoln; Edris de Liones weds Elaine of Cornwall.
12: Tristan is born. Geldan Pellinore becomes King of Lincoln.
14: Uther is badly wounded fighting Saxons. Elaine of Corbin is born.
15: Uther dies of his wounds; his sword (the sword of Maximus of Rome) is placed in a churchstone. Kay is knighted in London, and while there Arthur draws the sword and Merlin tells him of his birth. The wars of succession begin after the sword disappears. Ector de Maris is born.
16: Gareth is born, as is Lyonel.
17: Urwens of Wales marries Morgaine, and Edris de Liones claims Cornwall. Bors is born.
18: Arthur declares as the rightful heir. Bedwyr of Rheged, King Pellinore, and many of Uther's old followers rally to him. Uwaine is born to Morgaine and Urwens.
19: Arthur takes Carlion and Londin. The warring kings begin to take him seriously.
20: Lot makes a pact with five kings, and they take the field against Arthur and are defeated. King Pellinore goes to Brittany to speak with King Ban de Benuic, and then on to Flanders, where he weds King Bors's sister-in-law.
21: Arthur travels to Brittany, leaving his holdings in the hands of Bedwyr and Kay, to aid Ban and Bors against the Gallic tribes. Cedric begins uniting the Saxons.
22: The Gauls are defeated, and Arthur returns to England, where he smashes the largest indepdenent Saxon tribe. Griflet, only sixteen, earns his knighthood.
23: Lot forms the alliance of the Eleven Kings, a time-consuming process. Arthur marshals his forces, while Kay begins building a great stronghold on a hill called Camelot. Lamorak is born.
24: The Battle of Bedegraine. Arthur triumphs.
Book One
24/0: The submission at Camelot. The three older MacLuth boys join Arthur's court. Lancelot, Tristan, and many of the future knights meet for the first time.
25/1: Mordred is born, and passed off as a son of Lot's old age. Cedric of Saxony is murdered by his followers, and his son Cerdig begins putting together what hold he can over the remaining tribes.
26/2: The Saxon tribes try again, taking Carlion and killing Sir Alfias. Merlin goes to Surloise and negotiates an alliance with King Leo de Grance.
27/3: The Battle of Mount Badon. The Saxons are decisively shattered, and Cerdig bends the knee and becomes Christian. King Pellinore kills King Lot in a duel. Several of Uther's old followers die. Arthur weds Guinevere de Grance and establishes the Round Table; Gawaine is the first man knighted by Arthur's own hand.
28/4: Lancelot comes to court, and helps Gawaine's brothers earn their knighthoods by bringing the Duke of Cambenet to justice - and earns his own as well, overshadowing them and earning Agravaine's emnity.
29/5: The beginning of the famous quests – as well as the affair between Lancelot and Guinevere. They are both twenty. Lancelot kills Carados and Turquine. Bors, Lionel and Ector come to court.
30/6: Merlin dies, and Morgaine comes to court with Urwens as his replacement, bringing their son Uwaine and the sword Excalibur as a token of the fealty of the northern pagans. She soon arranges the marriage of Elaine and Lancelot. The quests and the pacification of Britian continue.
31/7: Galahad is born. Gawaine visits Orkney, and at Morgause's urging kills King Pellinore in revenge for his father's death.
Book Two
33/9: Gareth comes to court in disguise, as a humble kitchen page. Old Ector dies. Tristan is knighted and proclaimed Arthur's heir until he should get a son on Guinevere. A Tuscan lord named Lucius claims the old standards of Rome and sets himself up as a dictator. England gets steadily more and more civilized; Arthur's armies take on the daunting task of civilizing Ireland. Lyonel, Bors, and Ector de Maris all earn their knighthoods in the next four years.
37/13: Gareth defeats the Persian knight calling himself the Lord of the Red Lands, earning his knighthood and revealing his identity. His knighting is interrupted by emissaries of "Emperor" Lucius, demanding tribute of Arthur.
38/14: Lucius invades Brittany, and the Roman campaign begins. Arthur's armies sail to France while Kay, Guinevere and Morgaine rule. In the ensuing wars, the usual suspects distinguish themselves, and Lamorak Pellinore earns his knighthood at fifteen. Griflet, Grumore, Lucan the Butler and King Bors are among the slain. King Pelles puts down a few Saxons in England, with the unlikely aid of Cerdig himself.
42/18: The Roman campaign ends with the death of Lucius, and most of mainland Europe pays tribute to Arthur. The conquering heroes return to an England at peace.
44/20: Morgause tells Mordred that she is his foster-mother, and he is a bastard of Arthur's, and sends him to Camelot to seek his knighthood. Morgaine warns Arthur not to trust him or Morgause, and they quarrel badly over religion and other things; he banishes her from court.
45/21: Urged on and sorcerously aided by a vengeful Morgaine, Accolon ap Urwens seeks to unseat Arthur and end decades of Christian rule. Mordred's counsel helps Arthur overcome the treachery, and he knights Mordred.
47/23: Galahad comes to court and earns his knighthood in record time. Morgaine and Morgause work together to instill a vision of the Holy Grail that draws the knights on quest and splinters the power of Camelot. Lamorak and Mordred are the only two whole knights to remain behind; Bedwyr finally announces his retirement, crippled by gout. Many knights die on the quest, and Lancelot goes mad.
48/24: The knights return one by one, reporting failure. Fantastic tales are told of Galahad and Lancelot, but also Bors de Galles and the simple-minded Percival Pellinore. Cerdig of Saxony, seeing a chance for power, takes Dornar Pellinore captive under spurious accusations. Galahad achieves the Grail and the peace of death.
Book Three
48/24: Lancelot and Bors return two weeks before Pentecost with the body of Galahad. Lancelot and Gawaine aid Lamorak in retrieving his brother and killing Cerdig, and Gawaine takes Lamorak on a visit to Lothian, where he is seduced by Morgause. She comes to Camelot, leaving Agravaine to rule in Lothian.
49/25: Melwas, a bastard of King Leo, abducts Guinevere, and is killed by Lancelot as he and Lamorak rescue her. They resume their affair, and Elaine kills herself (out of grief for Galahad, presumably.)
50/26: Agravaine returns to Camelot for Pentecost, discovers his mother with Lamorak, and butchers her; he blames the murder on Lamorak, who becomes a fugitive. In a posthumous letter from his mother, Mordred learns of his true parentage and dedicates himself to bringing Arthur down.
51/27: Gawaine finally hunts down and kills Lamorak. Pinel begins the Poisoned Apple Scandal. Mordred manipulates King Mark to kill Tristan, leaving Arthur without a clear heir.
53/29: Morgaine visits in secret and is cajoled into helping Mordred. She goes to win him the allegiance of the pagans of the North and Ireland, while Mordred himself makes a pact with Vornagor, Cerdig's heir and the greatest chief in Saxony. Agravaine and Mordred begin plotting to bring down Lancelot.
54/30: Arthur declares Mordred his heir.
55/31: Agravaine confesses his murder of Morgause, and Gawaine disowns him. Gawaine, Gareth and Gaheris warn the Frenchmen of Agravaine's plot, but he goes through with it at Mordred's urging. Lancelot and Guinevere are caught, but Lancelot kills Agravaine and flees with Guinevere. Open battle breaks out in Camelot, and Lancelot kills Gareth in his escape, while Bors cuts down Gaheris. He and Guinevere flee to Surloise, while Lyonel, Bors and Ector prepare their own lands for war. Arthur and Gawaine muster their remaining forces to do justice.
56/32: Guinevere negotiates a peace to break the siege of Surloise and returns to Camelot with Arthut, but Gawaine will not give up the blood feud. He takes the other Frnench castles and besieges Lancelot and his family and supporters in Benuic.
58/34-59/35: CRAZY SHIT HAPPENS. No spoilers cause while we all know how it ends, I tell it a little differently.
My issue is balancing the ages of Galahad and Lamorak, specifically, with the Roman campaign and Grail quest and shit like that. Specifically, Lamorak is 25 when he begins his affair with Morgause, and I would have liked to make him younger – but I also want him to have fought in the Roman wars. Galahad, meanwhile, has to be old enough to take part in the Grail quest and kick people's asses, but Lancelot can't marry Elaine too early. It's tricky.