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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3139816" data-attributes="member: 15538">Lancelot is an addition by a French author who was fond of the tales; as I mentioned, most of his best stories were stolen from Bedwyr, Arthur's original right hand man (he still appears in a minor role as Bedivere in most of the stories). Galahad is the son of Lancelot and the Lady of the Lake, who is the most baldly pagan element of the story, a fey/goddess/sorceress who lives eternally in a lake. The quest for the grail? That's taken from the story of the Fisher King. It's known in other versions as a cauldron... it is the pagan tale that is behind Lloyd Alexander's Prydian Chronicles. So I don't think the fact that they took a couple of lines to echo Christ's life and inserted them into the story of the Fisher King makes it &quot;thoroughly Christian.&quot;If Lancelot is a &quot;Christian paladin,&quot; why does he decide to leave his lands and lord to seek out the greatest warrior in the land so that he might be bested? That sounds more like something Thor would do than, say, Peter. Saying the Arthurian tales are heavily Christian and therefore difficult to adapt to D&amp;D's polytheism is unsupportable, since they were heavily pagan tales were easily converted to Christianity. Sure, they would retain Christian echoes.... just as the tales themselves contain tones, themes, and symbols that are pagan in character.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 3139816, member: 15538"] Lancelot is an addition by a French author who was fond of the tales; as I mentioned, most of his best stories were stolen from Bedwyr, Arthur's original right hand man (he still appears in a minor role as Bedivere in most of the stories). Galahad is the son of Lancelot and the Lady of the Lake, who is the most baldly pagan element of the story, a fey/goddess/sorceress who lives eternally in a lake. The quest for the grail? That's taken from the story of the Fisher King. It's known in other versions as a cauldron... it is the pagan tale that is behind Lloyd Alexander's Prydian Chronicles. So I don't think the fact that they took a couple of lines to echo Christ's life and inserted them into the story of the Fisher King makes it "thoroughly Christian." If Lancelot is a "Christian paladin," why does he decide to leave his lands and lord to seek out the greatest warrior in the land so that he might be bested? That sounds more like something Thor would do than, say, Peter. Saying the Arthurian tales are heavily Christian and therefore difficult to adapt to D&D's polytheism is unsupportable, since they were heavily pagan tales were easily converted to Christianity. Sure, they would retain Christian echoes.... just as the tales themselves contain tones, themes, and symbols that are pagan in character. [/QUOTE]

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