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[grail-lifesupport]

March to Camelot: Burial

Remember when Loholt was killed and his corpse bled when touched by the hand of his killer?

[gawrkin]

The people who are with Arthur in Avalon or are in a Cave alongside him:

(Disclaimer: Not including Morgan, the other fairies and/or Merlin)

La Bataille Loquifer [LINK]: Gawain, Ywain, Percival and Guinevere (Guest Starring: Roland from the Charlemagne series)

Lanzelet, by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven: Lout (Loholt)

Craig-y-Ddinas folklore: Ywain, Kay, Bedivere, Gawain, Percival, Geraint/Erec, Tristan, Culhwch, Yder and Calogrenant (Source: The Welsh Fairy Book, by Willaim Jenkyn Thomas)

Sewingshields Folklore [LINK]: Guinevere

Tally:

Queen Guinevere: 2

Sir Gawain: 2

Sir Ywain: 2

Sir Percival: 2

Sir Loholt: 1

Sir Kay: 1

Sir Bedivere: 1

Sir Geraint/Erec: 1

Sir Yder/Edern ap Nudd: 1

Sir Tristan: 1

Sir Culhwch: 1

Sir Calogrenant: 1

In the end, Arthur won't be alone...

(Of course, none of the later (mostly French-created) characters - Lancelot, Bors, Galahad, Palamedes, Dinadan, etc. - made it to Avalon or the Enchanted Cave. It's the older tradition characters who have a chance.

[pgwodewose]

Mordred: The Brother

The infant Mordred is found adrift by a fisherman and his wife, who raise the babe as their own [1]. When Mordred is fourteen, he kills a sea-serpent, a deed which catches the attention of King Arthur who takes the boy back with him to Camelot. There the Queen Morgause recognises the boy as her long long-lost son by the scar on his forehead, and Mordred is taken in by her and he comes to know his brothers and his sister [2]. Mordred later becomes a Knight of the Round Table and is given a sword by his eldest brother Sir Gawain--none other than the Sword which Arthur had drawn from the stone, and which was later broken when Arthur fought Sir Pellinor, and even after Arthur was given Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake, the fragments of the old Sword were not discarded but were reforged, and Arthur gave this sword to Sir Gawain. 'With this sword I slew the Emperor Lucius of Rome, who was my foster-brother,' Sir Gawain says. 'Therefore I give it to you, and may you wield it well.' [3]

A young and more innocent Mordred for this picture, which was fun to draw. The left side depicts Mordred's maternal siblings: Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, Gareth, and Clarissant. The right side depicts his paternal siblings (though neither he nor they know this yet): Loholt, Amhar, Gwydre, Duren, Archfedd, and Melora.

This drawing was done for @mordredpendragon's Maydred 2025.

The Children of Morgause

Top row from right to left: Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris Bottom row: Gareth, Clarissant

The Children of Arthur

Top row from right to left: Loholt, Amhar, Gwydre Bottom row from right to left: Duran, Archfedd, Melora

Notes

Me: 'Right, which canon are we going with for the Maydred prompts--' My brain: 'All of them.' Me: '...a-all of them?' My brain: 'All of them.' Me: 'H-how d--how do we even make that work?' My brain: 'You figure it out.' Me: 'Isn't that supposed to be your job?'

[1] This is taken from Thomas Malory, who says that Mordred was adopted by fisherfolk, and I personally prefer this version of the story to the one in the Post-Vulgate where he is raised by the lord Nabur the Unruly alongside Nabur's own son Sagremor.

[2] I made this story up on the spot as I was drawing this. I wanted to find a way to bring Mordred back into Arthur's household in a way that maintained his fisherman's upbringing while also not needing to create yet another elaborate Fair Unknown narrative. Also I like sea monsters. Arthur fostering Mordred comes from The Dream of Rhonabwy. The detail of the scar comes from the Post-Vulgate:

The scar was also a convenient way of bringing him back into the Orkney household.

[3] Right, where do we start with this? Well, Gawain wielding the Sword in the Stone is loosely based on something I noticed while going through the Vulgate Merlin in which Gawain kills the Emperor Lucius with Excalibur:

So I tried to blend together the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate narratives so that Arthur wields the sword Excalibur (the Sword of the Lake) while Gawain gets to wield the Sword in the Stone reforged.

Gawain mentioning Lucius as being his foster-brother is my headcanon derived from De Ortu Waluuanii (The Rise of Gawain) in which Gawain, abducted as infant and raised in poverty by the poor fisherman Viamundus, is later adopted into the household of the Roman Emperor alongside the Emperor's own children, which in my head includes the young Lucius.

So I imagine Gawain, even though he is especially close to Gareth, having a particular fondness as well for Mordred based on the latter's upbringing, and that being one of the reasons why he gifts his sword to Mordred. The sword passes from one long-lost son (Arthur) to another long-lost son (Gawain) to another long-lost son (Mordred).

[sir-borre]

KING ARTHUR'S FAMILY

Chris Pine - King Arthur of Britain

Janet Montgomery - Lady Lionors of Luton (King Arthur's first wife)

Kenneth Branagh - Sir Borre/Lohot Pendragon, duke of Gloucester

Lucy Griffiths - Lady Aelia of Bedford, duchess of Gloucester (Sir Kay's daughter and Sir Borre's wife) [OC]

Elle Fanning - Princess Lucia Pendragon (Sir Borre and Lady Aelia's daughter and King Arthur's heir) [OC]

Gene Tierney - Queen Guinevere of Britain

Jodie Comer - Lady Olwen, duchess of Hereford (King Arthur' lover) [OC]

Hayden Christensen - Sir Amr of Hereford

Freya Allen - Lady Stephanie of Hereford (King Arthur and Lady Olwen's daughter) [OC]

William Moseley - Sir Duran of Hereford

[nukethebees]

March to Camelot 3: Family

Young princess Melora, daughter of Arthur and Gwenevere, on her big cousin Gawain's back while her half-brother Loholt and her "uncle" Kay watch.

[dullyn]

for the first (and probably last) time i wrote the death of loholt at the hands of kay, it is not a murder of greed and jealousy though, it’s done out of a paternal sense of love and protection

[queer-ragnelle]

Can you recommend some books that focus on Arthur's children that you've liked?

Hi anon! Sure can. I’ll list them in order of release and note which kids are in it.

Mordred, A Tragedy by Henry Newbolt (Mordred)

The Great Captains by Henry Treece (Anir)

Lionors, King Arthur's Uncrowned Queen by Barbara Ferry Johnson (Mordred & Elise)

The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart (Mordred)

Idylls of the Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr (Mordred)

The Book of Mordred by Peter Hanratty (Mordred)

The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein (Medraut, Lleu, & Goewin)

The Winter King, Enemy of God, & Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell (Amhar, Loholt, & Gwydre)

A Camelot Triptych by Norris J Lacy (Mordred)

Exiled From Camelot by Cherith Baldry (Loholt & Mordred)

Arthurian Tales by Phyllis Ann Karr (Mordred)

There are definitely more books with Arthur’s kids but these are the most prominent. Most often it’s Mordred/Medraut, but the others do show up occasionally. Enjoy!

[gingersnaptaff]

Doing more on @gwalch-mei 's Christmas present (which I keep referring to as Gwyn and Gwalch's Gossip Corner (feat. An Appearance From Everybody's Favourite Scamp, Llacheu) and thought u might all like this bit about Gwalchmai talking about Medrawd. (Also, dw for anybody interested - I.e. @dullyn just said 'Pryderi has fun uncle status' that WILL be the case in this!)