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Lancelot

Lancelot du Lac · The First Knight

majorattestedLegendaryArthurian legend

The greatest knight of the Round Table, flawless in arms and fatally divided in heart — the king’s dearest champion and the queen’s secret lover. His adultery bars him from the Grail his own son will win, and his loyalty and his love, pulling opposite ways, are the exact stress that finally tears Camelot in two.

Light87
Wisdom83
Grace79
Influence71
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Its universe

The mythic order Lancelot belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

Voices & connections

Figures bound to Lancelot, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

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Relics & objects

Sacred and cursed things that belong to the world of Lancelot.

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Illustrated storyThe Matter of BritainA boy pulls a sword from a stone and becomes the king who builds, for one shining generation, an order of justice out of an age of blood. But the flaw is set at the beginning — a son begotten in ignorance, a love that lands in the wrong heart — and the Round Table that quests for the Grail is undone by the very virtues that raised it. The rise and fall of Camelot, and the king who is not dead but waiting.Begin reading →