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Excalibur

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The sword of King Arthur, drawn from the stone and returned to the Lady of the Lake, kingship made steel.

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✦Signature powerKingshipNames the rightful king; its scabbard wards every wound.

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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 →