Once & Future King-seeking M characters-politics, debauchery, magic, & more -CLOSED

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LtRipley

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I'm looking for a take on the Arthurian legends with a game that focuses around Arthur, Morgana (what I'll be calling our Morgan le Fey), Lancelot, and Guinevere and the relationships that form between them. There'd of course be a good bit of politics and war happening throughout the story but I'm definitely wanting to be a bit more character focused. I have an idea for allowing Morgana to at least start out as protagonist on Arthur's side and only later becoming more of a threat. The plot to corrupt Arthur and use him to father a child with Morgana to create a rival for the British crown would be hatched by their maternal aunt, Morgause, who would be the head priestess of Avalon and a sort contemporary and rival to Merlin. Morgana would only learn that she and Arthur had been manipulated into a relationship and having a child until after it's already happened, and eventually turn on Arthur and try to complete the plan with their son when he's an adult.

Backing up, however, I'd still like Lancelot and Guinevere to be a part of main cast, like I said, I'd like to keep their love affair in the game, but perhaps have Arthur find out fairly early on and even accept it (kind of fair I suppose since he'd be sleeping with his half-sister off and on). Bonus points to anyone who's willing to include some homoerotic elements in Lancelot and Arthur's relationship, but it's not required. They'd be best friends either way, and I've seen them be portrayed many different ways but I was leaning towards going with the more classic angle of Lancelot being the older one and Arthur the younger. Guinevere would likely not be in the game in the beginning, but would be introduced relatively early on and then married to Arthur probably pretty quickly. I'm also interested in hooking up Lancelot and Morgana when we get the opportunity. I was definitely imagining Arthur and Morgana's relationship being more central however, even if there'd be times where I play Guinevere more (against Arthur and/or Lancelot), but Arthur and Morgana's would have a very deep and complex relationship. This meeting would be at a Beltaine festival, which I have quite a few ideas for and if you know anything about Beltaine you probably have an impression of what they might be like. Happy to talk about it in PM! Trying to keep this thread relatively brief though

I was thinking of having the game start a few years after Arthur has found out the truth of his heritage and has already taken up as the new lord of Camelot and finding his footing, and having him and Lancelot being invited to attend a pagan Beltane festival that would be overseen by Morgause, who is essentially luring Arthur in to snare him with Morgana and get her plot under way. My idea for their meeting would be that they see and meet one another without realizing who the other is and that they're siblings, and feeling an immediate attraction and even flirting a little before they find out. I'd imagine Arthur in his late teens (17/18), Morgana in her early 20s (21/22), and Lancelot in his mid 20s (24/25).

I could be talked into starting from the very beginning when Arthur would be 16/17ish and just found out the truth, but it would be a slower burn for him and Morgana's relationship and I feel like there's already a lot story to cover so I think starting a little further into it makes more sense. I'm not completely against it however if you're someone who enjoys a slow burn, I can sometimes but it does seem to have a higher fail rate.

I'm looking for a good mix of action, fantasy, history, debauchery, and drama. There's so many different versions of these myths I think it'd be easy to make them our own and use some of those retellings or just make up our own and mix things in as we like. I'm also open to very different takes or twists on the legend!

Boatman

Ok, I have had a fascination with Arthuriana since childhood. My father was Welsh and his middle name was Mervin, a derivative of Merlin. The first book he bought me to read was 'The Once and Future King'.
Some while back, I presented a paper at Bristol University suggesting Geoffrey of Monmouth might have borrowed much of his account of Arthur from tales of the Romano-Welsh hero Macsen Wledig. Macsen's best knight also had eyes for his king's young queen.
Recently, I had a piece published in 'Current Archeology' concerning the discovery of Merlin's grave in Scotland.


Enough of all that academic nonsense!
I would love to explore the world of Arthur with you, if you are willing, dear lady.
History, where creative writing was born.