And so the Lady of Shalott leaves her tower, takes a boat down the river, and beholds the kingdom of Camelot before she dies. Soon enough, she sees the handsome Sir Lancelot in her mirror and decides that, curse or no, she will forsake her weaving and go out to see the world. She is content to while the days away like this until she sees a newlywed couple and declares, “I am half sick of shadows”. She is cursed to always weave a magic web upon her loom and to only look at the world using the mirror in her room. The story of the Lady of Shalott is less well-known among the myriad stories of the Arthurian expanded universe, and the version Sebastian draws upon in this case is Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1832 poem, ‘The Lady of Shalott’, in which a young woman is locked away in a tower.

His body is taken to the mystical island of Avalon, there to sleep until he is needed once more. But he is ultimately betrayed by those closest to him, and so the great kingdom of Camelot falls, and King Arthur dies with it. When Arthur pulls the sword from the stone, the young prince takes the throne of Camelot and rules over a golden age of peace. Expected publication: July 6, 2021, by AceĮveryone knows the modern story of King Arthur: The hidden Prince Arthur reappears from obscurity to claim his father’s throne, but to prove his lineage he must draw a magical sword from a block of stone- a feat no one but the rightful heir can accomplish.

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