Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Casting

This story was created base on the book "The Armour of Life" by Thomas L. and Bocy M.H. This is a totally new version, although I will use some characters name in the book. Ah, I don't know much about Arthurian Legend, I'm just kinda like it, so I decided to write story about it.
Some information and photos are from the move Camelot, TV series: The adventures of Merlin, Arthurian Legend website, and some I made by myself.
This is the casting of minor characters. The protagonists won't have any photos or information, you can create the protagonists' appearance in your mine, and you will find out about their personality throughout the book.
Hope you enjoy :)

The night is nearly over, the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of light.
                                                 Roman 13:12

Queen Guinevere:
" You don't have to rescue me, just... remember me."
Queen Guinevere in battle. 

 She was an attractive and beautiful woman, mother of prince Uriel Loron, wife of King Arthur.
History: She was a daughter of an aristocratic Roman family. Her family wanted a son, so Guinevere was deserted for a blacksmith in a town of Camelot (long story). She was raised by Tom and his wife, the more she grew up, the more beautiful she was. She went into Camelot castle to search for a job and accpeted as a maiden for Queen Morgana. In the castle, she met Prince Arthur and he had fallen in love with her at the first time. Shemade friends with knights of Camelot, including sir Lancelot - who also had a thing for her. Morgana was a seer, so she knew that Guinevere will become a queen someday, which was as well a wish position for Morgana. Morgana tried every ways to get rid of her, but with the help by Merlin -  a powerful young sorcerer, Guinever had become Queen of Camelot and borned a son - Uriel Loron, real name: Aubriet.
Skills: bows and arrow
Personality: subtle, benevolent, helpful, aggressive, righteous, straight, brave.
Crush: King Arthur, Sir Lancelot
Magic: A little, she was taught magic by Merlin. But she didn't have the gift of magic, which mean she didn't have magic since she was born. She just knew normal magic of human through sorcerers.
Death or Alive: Death
King Arthur:
King Arthur at the old age.

"What if my father's opinion about magic is wrong, that not all magic is wrong?
He was the king of Camelot.

History: Arthur Pendragon was the son of Uther Pendragon - previous king of Camelot. Being a prince, and had a lot of duties - which he thought were burdens, Arthur's life was not so happy. Not like his father, King Arthur was not aware and despite magic. He was softer, not glacial, and love his people. He had joined in many battles and wars, and was also the leader of Romano-Celtic-Britain against the Saxons. He in loved with Guinevere, who after became his wife and the queen of Camelot. He had a big friendship with Merlin and the Knights of the Round table, and always fought for his people,  for believe.
Skills: bows and arrow, fighting, sword-fighting,... etc
Personality: brave, arrogant, courage, strength, aggressive, good-hearted, tolerant
Crush: Queen Guinevere
Magic: King Arthur was associated with magic. He was born by magic. King Uther - his father, was so wanted an heir, but his wife, Queen Ygraine, couldn't bear children, so Uther asked a favor of Nimueh - a beautiful sorceress, for a child. Nimueh agreed, but she forgot to tell him the law of magic: a life created must be replaced by another. So when Arthur was born, Ygraine was death. So pitiful, hurt, painful for the lost of his beautiful wife, King Uther banished Nimueh out of Camelot forever, but after 20 years, Nimueh returned for her revenge. King Arthur grown up but he never knew the truth about how he was given birth and who was his mother until Merlin discovered and told him.
Arthur didn't have magic.
Death or Alive: Death

Uther Pendragon:

King Uther when he was overthrown by his own daughter - Morgana.
" You have no right to the throne!"
Used to be King of Camelot
History:
Pendragon means Head of the Dragon. Uther was the son of King of Britannia Constantine II. His eldest Constans succeeds to the throne of their's father death, but was murdered by his adviser : Vortigern, who later took the throne. Uther and his older brother, Aurelius Ambrosius, still children, flee to Britanny. Vortigern made an alliance with the Saxons and goes disastrously wrong, so Aurelius and Uther ( now became adults) returned and fought back the Saxons. Aurelius burned Vortigern and became king of Camelot. After Aurelius dead, Uther took the throne.
Uther married Ygraine but didn't have any children, later he begged Nimueh for the birth of Arthur, however, Ygraine death. Uther loved another woman, Viviene, and had a daughter - Morgana. Viviene married another man, and had another daughter - Morgause. Viviene had magic, but Uther didn't know that. The magic of Viviene passed to Morgana and Morgause, her daughters.
Uther also loved another woman - The Lady Catrina. Somehow she looked like Ygraine. But Lady Catrina was actually another powerful sorceress who wanted to took the possession of Camelot by married King Uther and became queen. However, she was busted by Merlin and Catrina escaped.
Skills: sword-fighting, bows and arrow, wrestling, riding horses,... etc
Personality: arrogant, ambition, courage, glacial, cold, full of hatred about magic after the death of Ygraine.
Crush: Queen Ygraine, Viviene, Lady Catrina
Magic: Uther had no magic. However, after the death of Queen Ygraine, he loathed magic. In Camelot at these days had a lot of attacking, and tricking of magic, that made Uther hated them more. He captured the last dragon - Kilgharrah, and imprisoned it at the bottom of the castle by magical chains. He burned all the books about magic, executed everybody that studied magic and associated with magic. After that, Camelot had no one learn magic again, except those who had the Gift of Magic, they have to hide their talent, include Merlin and Morgana.
Death or Alive: Death



Ygraine - wife of Uther, queen of Camelot, when she was alive.


Viviene - mother of Morgana and Morgause, when she was young.


Morgan Le Fay/Morgana/Morgaine:

Morgana when she was surrounded.

"What if you don't chose magic? What if magic choses you?"
                                                                          - Morgana -

The Dark Queen of Camelot.
History:Morgana was a powerful, beautiful sorceress and half-sister of King Arthur. She was the daughter of King Uther and her mother - who had the gift of magic, Viviene. She was raised by Uther in Camelot, and her only friend was the maid servant - Guinevere, who became queen of Camelot afterward. Morgana was bear in the Land of the Silver Apples - Avalon. She had the Gift of Magic, the Gift of Seer and Prophecy. However, the magic was actually Bursting ( which mean the power burst out of the body - allow the owner to use magic) when she was  20. Morgana usually had nightmares, and sometimes her nightmare became true. But she didn't know that she had magic and the power of Seer through her dreams until she met the Druids and became their friends. ( a friendly group of people who learned magic of healing secretly. They are peace and didn't like war.) She was a good woman, but she didn't good for a long time. After she knew the truth about her mom, and met her half-sister, Morgana loathed Uther, she became full of hatred, cold-blood, and wanted to use her magic for her own good. Uther didn't know that his daughter had the power of magic.

Morgana Magic Bursting: She accidentally burned her room.

Morgana betrayed her brother and her father, Uther, and her friend Merlin, Guinevere. She practiced dark magic with her half sister Morgause, and planned on overthrown Camelot.
Skills: sword-fighting, arrow and bows, dark magic, seer, necromancer...
Personality: cruel, really glacial, extremely dangerous, beautiful, merciless, cunning, ambition, power-hungry
Crush: none
Death or Alive: Alive
Morgana became queen of Camelot after she overthrown her brother - Arthur.

Magic: her magic is really powerful when she's angry. Before she casted a spell, her eyes were suddenly brief light orange. She was also a seer and sometimes could see the future. She was talented in transforming into animals, especially became a crow.

Morgana with a powerful magical dagger : A birthday gift from Arthur( he didn't know that the knife contained magic). 

Morgause:

Morgause practiced the dark magic on the Isle of Silver Apples - Avalon, an old place where bear the magic of the Old Religion.

Half sister of Morgana - powerful magician - had practiced magic of the Old Religion.
History:
 Morgause was the daughter of Viviene and Gorlois - Duke of Cornwall( another country next to Camelot). Gorlois left his family to go into battles and died. So poor and didn't have enough money to raised her child, Viviene asked the Great Dragon to took Morgause away to the Isle of Silver Apples - Avalon and taught her magic. However, the Dragon recognized her wicked heart and her dark soul since she was a child, so the Dragon left her there but didn't dare to kill her because she was so young. Morgause learned the dark magic of the dark creatures of Avalon, and soon became powerful. She made a magical mirror, and seek for her mother and father, but they were already die. The only relatives left was her half younger sister - Morgana, so she arrived at Camelot and started to teach Morgana the Dark magic secretly.
Skills: sword-fighting ( she used to beat Arthur), dark magic, necromancer.
Personality: cruel, evil, wicked, powerful, scheming.
Crush: none
Magic: dark art, her magic Bursting when she was three years old.
Death or Alive: Alive

The Dragonarmy of Morgana and Morgause:
The Dragon-army of Morgana and Morgause was a group of sorceress and sorcerer who practiced the Dark Magic. They came from the request of Morgana and Morgause. They helped Morgana and Morgause to overthrown Arthur and Merlin with the Knight of the Round Table. They are really dangerous, violent, and lust.
1. Mordred - The Black Dragon
"I shall never forget and forgive this, Merlin."
 Mordred had a curse - he had to have an appearance of a child forever. However, this appearance helps him a lot in disguise as a young, nice, innocent, poor child.
He was actually a Druid. But after the death of his father ( who was executed by King Uther for the practice of magic), his revenge and hatred for Camelot appeared. He could speak through minds because he was mute, the only sound he could make was screaming, which could kill people.And only people who had the Gift of magic could hear him speaks. 
2. Nimueh - The Red Dragon


She was a powerful sorceress who helped Uther for having Arthur. She did it for money, but later thought that was her big mistake. Nimueh was beautiful, but really dangerous. She was good with poison, especially water. She could create monsters from dust and rock, and she was also a necromancer. Nimueh was once poison all the water of Camelot by her magic, but her plan was soon fail because Merlin had destroy her monster. Later, Nimueh planned on killing Arthur, and Merlin's mom, and even Merlin's best friend, the court physician - Gaius, but she was fail. However, Nimueh studied the dark magic harder, and she placed a curse on Merlin, made him become an old man, which she believed that he was weak and will die soon. But Merlin just had an appearance of an old man, he was actually really young, and still powerful.
After the lost of Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, the reason is unknown, Nimueh returns to Camelot and agrees to join the Dragonarmy and helps Morgana to overthrown Arthur.
Skills: poison
Crush: none
Death or Alive: Alive
3. The Lady Catrina - The Silver Dragon

The Lady Catrina was clever and powerful about magical charming articles. She was a daughter of a Royal family. She had a necklace, that anybody wears it could be charm by her immediately, which she gave it to King Uther. However, the plan fails because of Merlin. The Lady Catrina escaped a day before she was executed.After fleeing from Camelot, she returned and agreed to help Morgana and Morgause. She was powerful in potion, especially potion that took shape in another human form. Deep inside, she also had a plan to overthrown Morgana and became queen of Camelot.
Skills: potion
Crush: none
Death or Alive: Alive
4. Sophia - The Gold Dragon


Arthur was used to love Sophia by her beauty and innocent. But she was actually associate with the Sidhe ( evil tiny creature - guard the Gate of Avalon). She scared of death and wanted to be immortal, but the only way to achieve it was opened the Gate of Avalon - the gate of Immortal Land. She had to kill a prince and sacrifice him to the Sidhe - the Guard, and she chose Prince Arthur. But her plan was failed thanks to Merlin. She disappeared in the water and later joined the army of Morgana. She especially good with charming, just by looked people into their eyes. Her eyes became red when she did the magic. Her father had sacrifice himself for Sophia, and helped her plan to kill Arthur. The plan was fail, that was why Sophia hated Merlin and Camelot, and planned on revenge.
Skills: charming
Crush: none
Death or Alive: alive
5. Alvarr - The Blue Dragon
Alvarr is a Druid. But not like the other Druids, he is violent, fierce, and powerful. He was the one who knew the secret hidden place of an old magical artifact: The Crystal of Neahtid. Few can harness its power, but he believes that Mordred could use it. Now, the crystal of Neahtid was in Morgana's hand, and Alvarr was her worthy servant. He was excellent in sword-fighting, and had practice the Druids' magic for a lot of years.
Skills: sword fighting, healing, dark art
Crush: will be reveal
Death or Alive: Alive



Merlin:








Merlin when he was in a curse of Nimueh.Merlin is one of the most talented and powerful sorcerer, who helped and fought with Arthur in many battles. Merlin was actually still younger than his appearance. He had carry a curse of Nimueh and had to stay in the form of an old man.
History: Merlin was born in Ealdor, a small, poor village. He was the son of a normal woman, and Balinor - the last Dragonlord ( who could talk and tame dragon). He grew up and sometimes suddenly using magic without knowing. The only person he shared about that strange things was his best friend - William. At the age of 20m because of his family was so poor and started to starve, Merlin packed to Camelot for searching a job. He was accepted as an assistant of the court physician, Gaius. Merlin never knew that he had magic, until Gaius discovered about it. Gaius was also practiced the magic, although he didn't have the Gift of Magic, which he could only learning normal magic of human. After the death of Ygraine and Uther started to forbidden magic, Gaius gave up, but secretly hid his magic book, which after knowing the truth about Merlin ability, Gaius gave him and taught him magic that he knew and always reminded him to hid his talent or Uther will execute them both.
Merlin became the manservant of Arthur, but Arthur never knew Merlin had magic after he won the battle of Morgana. Merlin became his friend, his adviser, and helped Arthur through many quests.

The reason why Merlin suddenly disappeared with the Knights of the Round Table was still a mystery.
Skills: most types of magic
Crush: The Lady of the Lake - Freya.
Dead or Alive: Unknown
Lady of the Lake:
The Lady of the Lake real name was Freya. She was actually a Druid, who had a curse ( become monsters when night came and kill people) from a sorcerer. She was helped by Merlin, and later has an affection for him. However, the Lady of the Lake was sacrificed herself protecting Merlin in a battle and died. Her soul lingered on the water, and disappeared in the lake. After a few days, Merlin realized that she was under bottom of the lake of Camelot. Merlin asked her to keep the Excalibur sword.
Excalibur - The Legendary Sword

The sword that Merlin made for Arthur. It was forged by Tom the blacksmith, father of Guinevere, and later contained the breath of the Great Dragon. The Sword was really powerful, which could kill both people who already dead and alive. After the death of King Arthur, the sword was thrust deeply into stone, which no one, even using magic could pull it out. The Great Dragon had told: Only Arthur could use the sword, if it falls into another hand, it would become evil.
The Great Dragon:





The Great Dragon was a creature of the Old Religion. His kins were killed and destroyed by Uther and his witch-hunters. The Dragon was captured in the bottom of Camelot by magical chains, which could only release by the Excalibur. The Dragon was really intelligent, smart, wisdom, and always help Merlin with advices.
The Dragon was released by Merlin, but he turned to destroy Camelot, for the revenge of Uther. However, Merlin realized he was a Dragonlord, and tamed the Dragon.
The Great Dragon was the last dragon of his kind, he couldn't bear eggs, but he was immortal. The dragon now was in the hand of Morgana. 



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