Excalibur

beneath the divine feminine.

And then he talked about the Lady of the Lake giving King Arthur the sword and how most people don't even get the true power of what was bestowed upon Arthur because everyone focuses on Excalibur, the sword, wielding the sword, wielding with power.

But what they miss is is the greatest power that was received was not the sword, but the scabbard in which Excalibur resided within, because while ever Arthur was wearing the scabbard, he would not die in battle.

It gave him immortality.

And this represents the divine feminine.

That is one of the things that they're bringing out.

And then just swinging back around to the Tomb Raider G.I. Joe collab, I mean, there's some very cool crossovers that could also happen within the Tomb Raider G.I. Joe thing where, you know, in the Sunbow animation series, we have a whole situation where Storm Shadow is trying to get his hands on Excalibur, as in the Excalibur.

Lara also pursues Excalibur.

in one of the games but because the games have also been sort of subtly retconned as well they have a new timeline new continuity for her um she hasn't discovered um Excalibur yet at least as far as memory serves me so it would be quite cool to see her in Storm Shadow at odds uh trying to pursue Excalibur even if Storm Shadow is more on the side of the good thing good of things um um he may see her intentions as dishonorable or whatever i think there's a like i'm not here to write it there's great writers who are going to write this okay so you you're already coming up with with future like gi joe x tomb raider 2 yeah there's there's some cool stuff that i think that they can do you know where they can also well they across gi joe history you know yeah that could be a

crossover between the cartoon versions Yeah.

Or just that could be a

Writing in the 15th century, Malory couldn't have known how prophetic this inscription would turn out to be.

King Arthur has risen again and again in our collective imagination, along with his retinue of knights, Guinevere, the Round Table, Camelot, and, of course, Excalibur.

But where do these stories come from, and is there any truth to them? King Arthur, as we know him, is a creation of the later Middle Ages, but his legend actually has its roots in Celtic poetry from an earlier time, the Saxon invasions of Britain.

After the Romans left Britain in 410 CE, Saxon invaders from what's now Germany and Denmark quickly capitalized on the vulnerability of the abandoned territory.

He lived in the middle of the Crusades, and others imposed the preoccupations of the time on the Grail, casting it as a powerful relic from the crucifixion.

Numerous adaptations in French and other languages followed from Chrétien's work.

In the course of these retellings, Caerleon became Camelot, and Caliburnus was rechristened Excalibur.

In the 15th century, Sir Thomas Malory synthesized these stories in Le Morte d'Arthur, the basis of many modern accounts of King Arthur.

And then the last piece, the magic piece, the PCs have to secure a magic item that is symbolic of a prophecy in the legends of the realm's rulers.

You know, something like the King Arthur pulling the sword Excalibur from the stone.

Okay.

Once the PCs have accomplished these four great tasks, they can be confident that Duchess will ascend to the throne and crown herself queen.

It is not, unlike Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, this is not a sort of a fantasy blockbuster.

Nennius is writing this as... a chronicle i guess as a history and it's treating this arthur as a figure of history he is a military leader who fights and wins battles and this is the foundation stone so if you look at all the later stuff that was then added on Merlin, Excalibur, the Lady of the Lake, Mordred, whatever, Lancelot, Guinevere, Morgan le Fay.

All of this would have been impossible without this text from Nennius.

This is the very beginning of the whole thing.

But I think it also reflects something else, which is in the late 19th century, a kind of escalating obsession with mythology and for identifying legendary heroes with sun gods or nature gods or fertility gods or whatever.

So in the 19th century, Arthur comes to be cast as a personification of the sun.

Excalibur is seen as being the rays of the sun, the Knights of the Round Table, the seasons or the signs of the zodiac or the planets or whatever.

And then in the 1920s, it's all about vegetation gods.

So the Fury begins to attack both Wanda and Jim at the same time.

And they use this brief distraction of Jim to snag away Strange and America Chavez, work together to snag away the Darkhold, and using Excalibur, Brian destroys

it.

And we established that Excalibur is his vibranium sword.

So while Captain America got a shield, Excalibur, all the legends about it, it's just a vibranium sword.

Instead of a shield, Brian Braddock got a sword.

And he uses it to destroy the Darkhold.

sword's name? It's escaping me right now.

Excalibur.

Excalibur.

Yeah.

And the same situation in Warhammer is also interestingly, it's all Bretonian stuff.

I can't.

How can I not remember? At least I remembered

Excalibur.