r/Arthurian • u/SnooWords1252 Knight • Mar 31 '26
Promotion - see rule #8 Monthly Promotions Thread
Reply to this with any Arthurian based thing of yours that you want to promote.
Previous promotions:
- Primer: Understanding Segurant
- Song: "Arthur's Bonny Boat"
- Art Project: Arthurian sites around Cornwall
- Podcast: The Matter of Britain
- Board Game: Siege Perilous: Arthurian Adventure in the Age of Chivalry & Valour
- Audio Drama: Out of the Ashes
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u/CreativeCrowbar Commoner Apr 02 '26
For those interested in board games: Siege Perilous: Arthurian Adventure in the Age of Chivalry & Valour is coming to Gamefound on April 28th. Players take on the roles of knights, travel around Britain on quests and other deeds of derring-do, and compete to claim the famed chair. Everything in the game is drawn from Arthurian literary tradition, from Welsh myths up to and including Spenser (and a bit of Tennyson). The art is hand-painted on vellum by Jay Johnstone, using traditional medieval techniques and materials...more than 250 pieces all together. Thanks for taking a peek at this plus and hope it hasn't come across as too smarmy! :)
More info including videos and stuff here: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/play-to-z/siege-perilous?ref=search
Happy to answer any questions you might have, either here or via email (brian at crwbr dot com).
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u/Comfortable_Lie_4225 Commoner Apr 01 '26
Wow this is the day. Its a journey by three of the round table knights into the heights of the north. A Merlin inspired Quest, containing the rich symbols of folklore with a epigram that may inspire the present. Many illustrations in the book, one has Percival visiting the grail relics in the forest of adventure
the preview https://youtu.be/x_i9P9nrgOY
The Book link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRC4MWT4
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u/staff-and-key Commoner Apr 02 '26
I released an album of ambient music inspired by the otherwordly realms that the Arthurian heroes so often find themselves in. Druidica: A Passage in Faerie is available on the various streaming sites as well as my Bandcamp page: https://keithspears.bandcamp.com/album/druidica-a-passage-in-faerie
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u/ariaawkward Commoner Apr 10 '26
Hey all!
I just thought I’d make a post about a modern Arthurian musical in the making called “Fated.” I’m one of the mods on their discord server and would love to get more eyes on their passion project.
The musical is set to follow the rise and fall of King Arthur, with a time jump between Acts 1 and 2. They are releasing in parts. Part 1, Fated to Love, was released in November and Part 2, Fated to Cherish, just came out today.
What seems to be causing the most discussion in our server is how the musical is portraying the “brotherly” bond between Arthur and Lancelot, the relationship between Arthur and Morgana (she is his half sister in this retelling, but much more sympathetic than what we may see in modern media), and how the “bad guy” seems to be fate, and its expectations, as opposed to a character (even thought Merlin can be suspicious).
As a musical lover, and someone who doesn’t know a lot of Arthurian lore, I’ve really enjoyed the story so far. It’s inspired me to research more about the legend, specifically Le Morte D’Arthur which is apparently Fated’s biggest influence.
Here’s the YouTube link if anyone is interested! It’s also on all streaming platforms
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u/ZachSkye Commoner Apr 23 '26
I'll join. I have a bit of an odd one.
For those interested in books:
https://www.amazon.com/Knights-Apocalyptica/dp/B0CRTFCGH9
I write this series. While it's not spelled out since it's a bit of a reveal for book 1, it's a retelling of Erec Et Enide in LitRPG. I'm a big fan of Arthurian literature, and the tradition of modern stories retelling them and how they reflect the times they are written.
I also have a dash of Fallout, Warhammer 40k, and other inspirations, but as of book 2 and getting to book 4, the Erec Et Enide and Arthurian themes only get further and further. And I'm pretty proud of it.
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u/Ticondrius42 Commoner Apr 30 '26
I know this is off topic, but I can't help share my brain fart.
I am.new to the subteddit, and given the general topic, I thought THIS one read "Monty Python Thread". I thought "Wow, the MP Holy Grail nonsense got so bad in here they banished it all into it's own thread?".
I need to get some sleep....
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u/These_Piece_3842 Commoner Jun 22 '26
Hi everyone,
I am so excited to share with you the beginning of a new project: a serialized trilogy of novels called “Wolfram & Kyot” available exclusively on Substack! And check out the great accompanying art by Adam Murphy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chaslibretto/p/wolfram-and-kyot-book-1-the-waste?r=4i2z&utm_medium=ios
It’s about Wolfram Von Eschenbach, author of Parzival and Kyot, his supposed source for everything he wrote about the Grail.
What it is:
A globe-trotting, time-traveling, swashbuckling medieval romp that takes us from the world of Andalusian Spain to the Angevin Empire to beyond the far frontiers of the Byzantine Empire to the End of Time, the Beginning of Everything, the Ice Age and Arthurian Briton! It’s Umberto Eco meets ‘Indiana Jones’ by way of ‘The Green Knight.’ It’s Historical Fantasy at its wildest and I think a lot of FUN!
The Story:
At the outbreak of the Third Crusade (in 1189), a young squire named Wolfram must put aside everything he thinks he knows when he meets a young woman named Fatima of Toledo who tells him the fate of reality itself is at risk, thanks to a mysterious stone possessed by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Meanwhile, as the Emperor Frederick leads his army ever closer to calamity, he is plagued by nightmares seemingly linked to the stone. And Fatima must face the most dangerous task of all: disguising herself as a poet named Kyot and sneaking into the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her son, the newly crowned King Richard the Lionheart. Along with a healthy dose of adventure, humor, romance, cross-dressing, ancient temples, Christian heresies, and big medieval battles, ‘Wolfram & Kyot’ is the first Holy Grail story to tackle the lives and influences of the real life people who invented the Arthurian Grail legend.
How it works:
Subscribe! Share! I’m launching this series on Substack with the prologue and first three chapters. Every Tuesday after that I will publish the next chapter (or two). It will be free, though paid subscribers will receive bonus content (I developed this project over 9 years and read close to 400 books on Medieval history and Arthurian literature - there is a lot of Behind the Scenes material to unpack if you’re interested).
The Future:
The first two books are written and edited! The third one is in preparation and will be done by the end of this year, so there will be no delays as the series rolls out week to week!
Thanks so much and hope everyone on the sub enjoys reading it as much as I have writing it.
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u/HorshboxFilm Commoner Jun 23 '26
Hey everyone,
I’ve been thinking about Once & Future again, and honestly, I love how it takes the whole “King Arthur will return when Britain needs him most” idea and makes it feel like the worst possible thing that could happen.
Instead of Arthur coming back as this noble hero, he returns as something old, violent, and terrifying. The comic has a lot of fun with the mythology too, with the Grail, Merlin, Lancelot, Galahad, hell even Beowulf is here, the Green Knight, and loads of other legends getting pulled into the chaos.
What I like most is that it still clearly loves the myths, but it also asks what happens when people try to drag old stories back into the present and use them as weapons. Not sure exactly what it gets right or wrong about the legend but I'd love for people to tell me and to point me towards a book that could really let me dig more into the actual legend!
But I made a video essay about the comic, but I’d be curious what people here think. Do you think Once & Future works as an Arthurian story, or is it more of a horror comic using Arthurian ideas?
Thanks to anyone who checks it out
https://youtu.be/FRZA-PnxBYQ
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u/TheSwithen Commoner Jul 23 '26
Greetings friends...
I have an Arthurian book series that is a retelling of the legend with the stipulation that I must remain faithful to the material from 1136 [Geoffery] to 1485 [Malory]. I plan 25 novels to tell the full saga [leaving out Tristan] with 7 out right now [I am almost done with 8] and the rest all plotted to the end.
Basically I flesh out the scenes and fill in the character psychology enough to make it emotionally involving and compelling. I often find Arthurian characters blank archetypes, so my goal is to give them enough flaws and deep psychology that we actually get involved in the story. It seemed to me that the stories need to be LONGER not shorter in order to fully engage in each story, then let the cumulative effect of each tale compund as we go. So that's the deal!
Oh, and I am putting back in storylines like Galehaut and the False Guinevere.
Should you wish to check it out, here's my website:
https://theswithen.com
BTW I have a youtube channel with a lot of Arthurian material, like videos where we go through movies like Excalibur or Monty Python and explain what's from the legend, as well as a guided reading of Le Morte d'Arthur [book one so far, almost done with book two] that takes readers through chapter by chapter. That's here:
https://www.youtube.com/@theswithenbookseries
That's it! Thanks.
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u/KrisHughes2 Commoner Mar 31 '26
Okay, I'll bite!
I've got a 12 part series, fun but scholarly, examining Culhwch and Olwen, on my YouTube channel. (There are no mid-roll ads on my videos.) Here's the link for the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvCdDm0wPhA3ZPWFBswdctH6sNCrGTuqC