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I've never actually read the works of Chrétien de Troyes, but I don't think this is accurate. Of his five extent works, three have the main couple married while two involve courtly love (which seem to be respectively at his patron's insistence, and a possible parody). And as far as I can tell, NONE ended tragically.

"...I'd say that that the trollope..."

Okay, whoever the editor of this is, this is like the third or fourth typo I've found.

Hmm. Seems kind of gauche to inform Mordred himself of his parentage in front of the whole crowd. Like, if Arthur had done this spontaneously when he first arrived that'd be one thing, but when you plan a whole event, you should probably take him aside and explain the situation first.

Wait. Why hasn't Thessala given Alis more Happiness Potion? Then he'd just think Fenice was alive or something.

"Chapter 11: The Courtly Love of Cligés and Fenice"

I was kind of hoping that we'd just leave them where we last saw them. It would have been bad writing, sure, but it'd be nice if we could focus on THE PROPHECIZED FALL OF CAMELOT, y'know?

Why are we doing Greek mythology now?

"He didn't either say that."

I'm not sure what that's supposed to be, but it's a typo no matter what.

"...Lancelot and Guinevere's brief romance had ended years before."

Their affair lasted for seven years. It just seemed "brief" to Terence because he spent most of it in the Other World.

Arthur's not illegitimate. It's pretty much universally agreed that his parents were married. Not when he was conceived, but by the time he was born, and legitimacy counts even if they marry after that. Is this not true in this continuity, or does Morris just not understand how this works?

For the sake of my mental health, I'm going to assume that she means "the antipodes" as a general term for the other side of the planet and NOT Morris implying that sixth century Britons knew about Australia.