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Background Notes: Camelot's Location
🕑 Added 2024-06-06 18:51:14 +0000 UTC
There's already hints in the first flashback dream sequence to where Camelot used to be (particularly for anyone familiar with English topography or who was snooping through the code), but it's not actually going to be pointed out in the game for awhile now.
Merlin:
The gleaming crystal walls of the fortress city Camelot , standing proud right at the very threshold of the territory that the Saxons dared to claim as if saying "Thou shalt not pass".
What took a year and a day for the fae to build, what would have been impossible for man to achieve at all, collapsed within a few minutes and took everything with it.
The overhang it sat upon, the branch of the river that flowed past, every single cobble and sparkling stone of that marble edifice until there was no trace that anything had ever been there. And when the dust finally cleared, Cheldric reared out of the hole where he'd been hiding and made a beeline straight for its ashes.
He ignored Caer Gwinntguic and Caer Celemion to the east, and Glastenning to the West, and Caer Baddan to the North, all to claim the land where Britannia's greatest city once stood. And there surrounded by Britons, he built the base of his new kingdom. 'Wiltsaete' the Wiltshire Saxons. I believe they call that region Wiltshire now?
I don't know what he was thinking... if he wanted to dance on the grave of his enemies, or if he was camped there to see if the city would rise from its ashes like a phoenix, or if he simply wanted to lay his claim before Octa stirred in Sussex.
But it is what it is, what was once Camelot was the first to fall to what would become 'West Seaxe'. The kingdom of the West Saxons. Wessex.
