Vortigern

6B-Merlin: What’s Red, White, and Fighting All Over

This is where we meet Merlin, a son of a demon who uses his evil powers for good. But he's not yet the bearded sorcerer we all kind of know and love. No, he first enters our story as a serious seven year-old with power over magic, the ability to prophesy, and knowledge of the past, present, [...]

6A-King Arthur Prologue: The Once and Really Only that One Time King

By Jason Weiser|2021-02-09T21:51:22-05:00August 12th, 2015|Categories: Podcast|Tags: betrayal, Castles, King Arthur, Knights, Magician, Medieval, Merlin, Pendragon, Swords, usurper, Uther, Vortigern|

The King Arthur legends don't actually start with Arthur, but with several years of war, intrigue, and betrayal among the Britons, and a slippery earl by the name of Vortigern not-so-subtly engineering the deaths of two kings to become king himself. We'll start at the very beginning, with Arthur's grandfather being murdered and his father fleeing across the channel [...]