The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Dream of Four Beasts

In his sleep he saw and did see him all about the stone circle where he had his resting. Each stone of the night a figure most dark, each figure as still as a stone excepting one which must come forward to his feet, who had the form of an woman. The Blue Knight wasContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Dream of Four Beasts”

The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Stone Circle

When the Blue Knight had departed the company of Fair Vivainne Desegur, he journeyed long days into a land that he knew not. Guided by the whims of his horse to this path or that, he cared not what direction he was following, only that he be alone and quiet after the many exertions andContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Stone Circle”

The Journey Home – The Homecoming

Ten years had they travelled, first to the Isle of Mists to change the words in the Book of Chivalry, then lost to the Isle of Men, before resting some years in the Isle of Women and finally learning many things on the Isle of Others where they were granted the aid they needed toContinueContinue reading “The Journey Home – The Homecoming”

The Journey Home – The Sea Nymphs

The shipe sailed quiet and Vivainne and the Blue Knight did read the sun and the stars as they had been shown right by the elders on the Isle of Others, the darkness of night came in the day and the waters fell black and oily. With this Vivainne knew that their path must soonContinueContinue reading “The Journey Home – The Sea Nymphs”

The Journey Home – The Isle of Others

Now when they came to leave their boat was full victualed and watered against the journey. Vivainne and the Blue Knight took their leave of the women well and set sail. In the sea they were lost as the stars were covered in darkness. On the third night some wind came and filled the sailContinueContinue reading “The Journey Home – The Isle of Others”

The Journey Home – Isle of Women

Now the wind stayed its hand and the shipe was quiet and still for many days, thus the shipe could not travel whither they wished and must follow the current. They took nought but water and became sore hungry, so when an island offered its shore close, they needs must swim to tow their shipeContinueContinue reading “The Journey Home – Isle of Women”

The Journey Home – Isle of Men

When the time had come and the Book was writ anew, the stars of women and men and others had been changed strong. The Blue Knight and Vivainne were glad of it and once more turned their faces to the world beyant. It was time to return home where their hearts remained in full andContinueContinue reading “The Journey Home – Isle of Men”

Changing the Stars

Now time had passed that the two knights were pure and worthy to undertake the Quest to rewrite the Book of Chivalry. They came together at the edge of the sea and made their pavilions there with ceremony and fasting. After some days came to them a ship with no guide to it so thatContinueContinue reading “Changing the Stars”

The Man or Woman on the Rock

They came to the Rock whereon the Man or Woman could be found that Vivainne and the Blue Knight might be pure of heart and mind and full strong in mind and arm to gain the Island of Mists wherein the Book of Chivalry was hid. They stood down off their mounts and looked upContinueContinue reading “The Man or Woman on the Rock”

The Book of Chivalry

There was in time a book that was name the Book of Chivalry, which all knights made to be true. In its pages were the ways a knight or man, but not a woman, could become most pure and honourable. Most and many of these were steeped in extreme danger. To save a person fromContinueContinue reading “The Book of Chivalry”