Cameliard

May all love, His love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow thee; The love of all thy sons encompass thee, The love of all thy daughters cherish thee, The love of all thy people comfort thee, Till God's love set thee at his side again! The Coming of Arthur.

Leodegran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child, And she was fairest of all flesh on earth, Guinevere, and in her his one delight.

For many a petty King ere Arthur came Ruled in this isle; and ever waging war Each upon other, wasted all the land: And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd over seas, and harried what was left.

And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less.

Till Arthur came for first Aurelius lived and fought and died and after him King Uther fought and died but either failed to make the kingdom one and after these King Arthur for a space and through the puissance of his Table Round drew all their petty princedoms under him their king and head and made a realm and reigned and thus the land of Cameliard was waste thick with wet woods and many a beast therein and none or few to scare or chase the beast so that wild dog and wolf and boar and bear came night and day and rooted in the fields and wallowed in the gardens of the king and ever and anon the wolf would steal the children and devour but now and then her own brood lost or dead lend her fierce teat to human sucklings and the children housed in her foul den there at their meat would growl and mock their foster-mother on four feet till straitened they grew up to wolf-like men worse than wolves and King Leodegran groaned for the Roman legions here again and Caesar's eagle then his brother king Urien assailed him last a heathen horde reddening the sun with smoke and earth with blood and on the spike that split the mother's heart spitting the child break on him till amazed he knew not whither he should turn for aid but for he heard of Arthur newly crowned though not without an uproar made by those who cried he is not Uther's son the king sent to him saying arise and help us thou for here between the man and beast we die and Arthur yet had done no deed of arms but heard the call and came and Guinevere stood by the castle walls to watch him pass but since he neither wore on helm or shield the golden symbol of his kinglyhood but rode a simple knight among his knights and many of these in richer arms than he she saw him not or marked not if she saw one among many though his face was bare but Arthur looking downward as he passed felt the light of her eyes into his life smite on the sudden yet rode on and pitched his tents beside the forest then he drave the heathen after slew the beast and felled the forest letting in the sun and made broad pathways for the hunter and the knight and so returned for while he lingered there a doubt that ever smouldered in the hearts of those great lords and barons of his realm flashed forth and into war for most of these colleaguing with a score of petty kings made head against him crying who is he that he should rule us who hath proven him king Uther's son for lo we look at him and find nor face nor bearing limbs nor voice are like to those of Uther whom we knew this is the son of Gorlois not the king this is the son of Anton not the king and Arthur passing thence to battle felt travail and throes and agonies of the life desiring to be joined with Guinevere and thinking as he rode her father said that there between the man and beast they die shall I not lift her from this land of beasts up to my throne and side by side with me what happiness to reign a lonely king vexed O ye stars that shudder over me O earth that soundest hollow under me vexed with wasted dreams for saving I be joined to her that is the fairest under heaven I seem as nothing in the mighty world and cannot will my will nor work my work wholly nor make myself in mine own realm victor and lord but were I joined with her then might we live together as one life and reigning with one will in everything have power on this dark land to lighten it and power on this dead world to make it live thereafter as he speaks who tells the tale when Arthur reached a field of battle bright with pitched pavilions of his foe the world was all so clear about him that he saw the smallest rock far on the faintest hill and even in high day the morning star so when the king had set his banner broad at once from either side with trumpet blast and shouts and clarions shrilling unto blood the long-lanced battle let their horses run and now the barons and the kings prevailed and now the king as here and there that war went swaying but the powers who walk the world made lightnings and great thunders over him and dazed all eyes till Arthur by main might and mightier of his hands with every blow and leading all his knighthood through the kings Carados Urien Cradlemont of Wales Claudius and Clariance of Northumberland the king Brandagoras of Latengor and Anguisant of Arran Morganor and Lot of Orkney then before a voice as dreadful as the shout of one who sees to one who sins and deems himself alone and all the world asleep they swerved and brake flying and Arthur called to stay the brands that hacked among the flyers ho they yield so like a painted battle the war stood silenced the living quiet as the dead and in the heart of Arthur joy was lord He laughed upon his warrior whom he loved and honored most.

"Thou dost not doubt me, King, so well thine arm hath wrought for me to-day." "Sir, and my liege," he cried, "the fire of God descends upon thee in the battlefield.

I know thee for my king." Whereat the two, for each had warded either in the fight, swear on the field of death a deathless love.

Yet Merlin, through his craft, and while the people clamored for a king, had Arthur crowned.

May all love, his love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow thee, the love of all thy sons encompass thee, the love of all thy daughters cherish thee, the love of all thy people comfort thee, till God's love set thee at his side again.

The Coming of Arthur Leodegran, the king of Cameliard, had one fair daughter and none other child, and she was fairest of all flesh on earth, Guinevere, and in her his one delight.

For many a petty king ere Arthur came ruled in this isle, and ever waging war each upon other wasted all the land, and still from time to time the heathen host swarmed overseas and harried what was left.

And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, wherein the beast was ever more and more, but man was less and less.

For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, and after him King Uther fought and died; but either failed to make the kingdom one.

And after these King Arthur for a space, and through the puissance of his Table Round, drew all their petty princedoms under him, their king and head, and made a realm and reigned.

And thus the land of Cameliard was waste, thick with wet woods, and many a beast therein, and none or few to scare or chase the beast: so that wild dog and wolf and boar and bear came night and day, and rooted in the fields, and wallowed in the gardens of the king.

And ever and anon the wolf would steal the children and devour; but now and then her own brood lost or dead lent her fierce teat to human sucklings; and the children, housed in her foul den, there at their meat would growl and mock their foster-mother on four feet, till straitened they grew up to wolf-like men, worse than wolves.

King Arthur and the Princess Guinevere.

After Arthur had been established in his court for some time, his neighbor, Leodogran, the king of Cameliard, asked him for help in a battle.

To this Arthur cheerfully consented, and gathered his warrior men about him.

It chanced as he and his men were marching past the castle of Leodogran to meet the enemy, the king's daughter Guinevere, who was the most beautiful lady in all that land, stood on the castle wall to watch her father's allies pass.

As he sat in his throne room one day in the castle at Camelot, two messengers arrived and were ushered into his presence.

"We come," said they, "from King Leodogran of Cameliard, who pays tribute to you as he paid it to your royal father, Uther Pendragon." "Our king is aged, and his knights, too, are well advanced in years, so that they can no longer fight as in the days of old.

And now our kingdom is threatened by one Riance, King of North Wales, for he has sent a message to our master saying that he has in preparation a mantle whose only trimming shall be the beards of kings.

Eleven of these beards he has already, but he needs one more, and he insolently demands that our good master send him his.

Swinburne's Tale of Balin.

Once, when Arthur was holding his court at Caerleon, up to the castle gate there rode a messenger from our old acquaintance, King Rience of North Wales.

This was the giant, you will remember, from whose clutches Arthur had rescued poor old King Leodogran of Cameliard, thus winning for himself not only glory, but what was far more precious to him, his beautiful bride Guinevere.

Rience, it would appear, had by this time somewhat forgotten the lesson taught him then by Britain's young overlord, for he was once again worrying about a famous mantle of his, whose fringe still lacked a twelfth king's beard with which the old giant wished to trim it.

Camelot, as such, doesn't exist.

And then if you look at the sources, you're like, well, what is Camelot? Is Camelot the name of the castle? Is Camelot or Cameliard, is that the region, right? It's unclear.

So for White, it seems to be the name of the realm, right? Like, it's another word...

Yeah, it's basically, it's, or he calls it Grammarie, right, sometimes.

Thus it came to pass that soon the peasant plowed his fields in safety, and where had been wastes, men dwelt again in peace and prosperity.

Among the lesser kings whom Arthur helped to rebuild their towns and restore order was King Leo de Grance of Cameliard.

Now, Leo de Grance had one fair child, his daughter Guinevere.

And from the time that first he saw her, Arthur gave her all his love.

Thus it came to pass that soon the peasant plowed his fields in safety, and where had been wastes, men dwelt again in peace and prosperity.

Among the lesser kings whom Arthur helped to rebuild their towns and restore order was King Leodegrance of Camelard.

Now, Leodegrance had one fair child, his daughter Guinevere.

And from the time that first he saw her, Arthur gave her all his love.

Um, and indeed, probably now controls the biggest king- single contiguous kingdom in, in England, or in, in Legris.

Um, uh, the news that you guys hear is, he is now progressing diplomacy and war against the border counties of Glowecestor, or Glowecestor, Glowecestor, Glowecestor, Clarence, Warensis, and Camelard.

Right.

Right.

Trebreut, uh, and Kineton, and Lambor.

So he will be on the border of Trebreut.

Uh, Camelard is where Leodegrance, who you've not visited, but Leodegrance is a powerful English king, um, lives.

Uh, and then the City of Legions is controlled by this Roman legion guy, uh, who no one really knows.