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King Arthur

Son of Uther Pendragon and Igraine, conceived when Merlin disguised Uther as the Duke of Cornwall. Proved his right to the throne by pulling a sword from a stone that no other lord could move, and was crowned after repeated trials at Christmas, Candlemas, Easter, and Pentecost. Later conquered Rome and was crowned Emperor after defeating the Emperor Lucius, and founded the fellowship of the Round Table at Camelot.

Merlin

A prophet and enchanter who arranged Arthur's conception, delivered the infant Arthur to Sir Ector to be fostered in secret, and engineered his recognition as king. He counsels Arthur on war strategy, brings King Ban and King Bors to Arthur's aid, and has his master Bleise record all the great battles and deeds of Arthur's knights for posterity. He eventually retires to see his master Bleise in Northumberland and later vanishes, undone by his own enchantments.

Sir Ector

The foster father who raised Arthur without knowing his true parentage, having taken the infant in at Merlin's request. When Arthur draws the sword from the stone, Ector reveals the truth and kneels to him; his one request is that his son Sir Kay be made seneschal of all Arthur's lands forever.

Sir Kay

Foster brother of Arthur and son of Sir Ector, made Seneschal (steward) of Arthur's household as a permanent office. Known for a sharp tongue, he mockingly names the unknown kitchen-boy knight 'Beaumains' (fair hands) and is later unhorsed by that same knight, Gareth, in disguise.

Queen Guenever

Arthur's queen, daughter of King Leodegrance, whom Arthur and King Ban and King Bors once rescued. She chides Sir Pellinore for failing to save a lady's life, and is praised by lovers across the realm as the fairest lady, a claim that sparks jealous duels between knights such as Meliagaunce and Lamorak.

Sir Launcelot du Lake

Nephew by kinship-in-arms to Sir Bleoberis and Sir Blamore, and reputed the peerless flower of knighthood for courtesy and prowess. He rescues countless ladies and knights, slays the ravisher Sir Peris de Forest Savage, frees Sir Gawaine from Sir Carados, and knights the young Gareth (Beaumains) despite fighting him to a draw first. Rumor holds that Queen Guenever has enchanted him so he can love no other lady, a belief that pains many highborn women who seek his love in vain.

Sir Gawaine

Son of King Lot and Queen Morgawse of Orkney, and nephew to Arthur. Early in his career he is bound by a vow to revenge his father's death upon King Pellinore per a prophetic inscription found on a knight's tomb. He fights Sir Priamus to a bloody standstill in the Roman wars, is healed by the four waters of Paradise, and later exposes a damsel of Morgan le Fay's leading Sir Tristram into an ambush.

Sir Tristram de Liones

Son of King Meliodas and nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, tutored by Gouvernail. He slays the Irish champion Sir Marhaus in single combat on an island to end Cornwall's tribute to Ireland, is healed of a poisoned wound by La Beale Isoud in Ireland (under the false name Tramtrist), and later drinks a love potion with Isoud that binds them together despite her marriage to King Mark. He kills the giant Tauleas and befriends Sir Bleoberis, Sir Lamorak, and (eventually) Sir Palamides, whom he repeatedly spares in single combat.

La Beale Isoud

Daughter of King Anguish of Ireland, healer of Sir Tristram's poisoned wound, who unknowingly drinks a love potion with him aboard ship while being escorted to marry King Mark of Cornwall. She becomes Mark's queen but remains bound in secret love to Tristram, and sends word to Guenever that there are only four true lovers in the land: herself and Tristram, and Guenever and Launcelot.

King Mark of Cornwall

Uncle to Sir Tristram and husband to La Beale Isoud, who married her after Tristram won her on his behalf. Jealous and treacherous, he attempts to strike Tristram with a sword over rumors of the affair (spread by his kinsman Sir Andred) but is disarmed and driven off in shame, fleeing his own hall.

Morgan le Fay

Arthur's half-sister and a sorceress who schemes against him. She loves the knight Accolon and grieves bitterly but secretly when he dies after a plot to replace Arthur's sword Excalibur with a false blade; she then steals Excalibur's magic scabbard from Arthur. She later dispatches thirty ladies to lure Launcelot or Tristram into an ambush at her castle, guarded by thirty waiting knights.

Sir Gareth of Orkney (Beaumains)

Youngest son of the Queen of Orkney (Morgawse), who came to Arthur's court leaning on two men's shoulders and asked only for a year's meat, service in the kitchen under Kay's mockery as 'Beaumains,' and later the quest of the damsel Linet plus knighting by Launcelot. In disguise he defeats the Black, Green, Red, and Blue Knights and the fearsome Red Knight of the Red Launds (Sir Persant of Inde) to free the besieged Dame Lionesse of Castle Perilous, whom he later weds; his brother Gaheris weds her sister Linet, and Agravaine weds Dame Laurel.

Sir Palamides

A Saracen knight, sometime rival and sometime friend to Sir Tristram, who loves La Beale Isoud from afar and is repeatedly bested but spared by Tristram in combat. He is banished from Cornwall by Isoud's own command and sent to Arthur's court bearing her message about the four great lovers of the land.

King Pellinore

A king and knight who pursues the Questing Beast and once took Arthur's horse while chasing it. Bound by a furious quest, he fails to save a lady (his own unrecognized daughter Eleine) who kills herself over her slain lover Sir Miles of the Launds; for this failure Merlin prophesies Pellinore will one day be abandoned by his most trusted friend in his greatest need.

Sir Balin and Sir Balan

Two brothers from Northumberland, both accounted among the finest knights of the age. Balin deals King Pellam the 'Dolorous Stroke,' and the brothers later unknowingly fight each other to the death in a tragic mistaken battle, after which they are buried together in a single tomb.

Sir Uwaine

A knight who travels with a sixty-year-old damsel guide and wins a tournament near the Welsh march, earning a gerfalcon and a white steed trapped in cloth of gold. He later champions the Lady of the Rock against two extortionist brothers, Sir Edward and Sir Hue of the Red Castle, who have stolen her barony.

Sir Pelleas

A knight of great prowess who wins a three-day tournament by unhorsing hundreds of knights and gives his prize circlet to the Lady Ettard, whom he loves; she scorns him cruelly, and he allows himself to be captured and humiliated by her men out of hopeless devotion.

Hellawes the Sorceress

Lady of the Castle Nigramous, who built an enchanted chapel with the corpses of dead knights and Sir Gilbert the Bastard's severed hand in hopes of trapping Sir Launcelot; she demands only a single kiss from him, intending it to be fatal, but he refuses and she dies of grief within a fortnight of his departure.

Sir Gringamore

A black-armored knight who kidnaps the dwarf of Sir Beaumains (Gareth) by stealth while Beaumains sleeps, forcing a chase to his castle; he is described as one of the most perilous knights in the world.

Camelot

Arthur's principal court and the seat of the Round Table, where great feasts are held at Pentecost and other high holy days, and where knights swear oaths and depart on quests. The king traditionally will not eat on such feast days until some marvel or adventure is reported to the hall.

Castle Pluere (the Weeping Castle)

A castle with a deadly custom: any knight passing by with a lady must fight the lord Sir Breunor, and whoever loses — knight or lady — is put to death. The custom had endured for many winters before Sir Tristram and Isoud were taken prisoner there.

Isle of Servage

A perilous valley in Wales where no knight who enters ever leaves free — captured or slain — until Sir Tristram, shipwrecked there with his wife Isoud la Blanche Mains, vows to deliver it, having already freed Cornwall from Irish tribute and bested Sir Marhaus, Sir Blamore, and Sir Palamides.

Castle of Sir Damas

A castle where the cowardly, treacherous knight Sir Damas imprisons and starves any knight he can capture, having refused his worthier younger brother Sir Ontzlake his rightful share of the family lands; eighteen knights die of hunger there before Arthur is drawn into fighting on Damas's behalf.

Mont Saint Michel

The site where Arthur single-handedly slays a monstrous giant who has been terrorizing the region, then orders a church built on the hill in Saint Michael's honor and distributes the giant's treasure among his people.

The Round Table

The order of knighthood founded by Arthur, whose members swear oaths of chivalry: to do no murder, to give mercy to those who ask it, to succor ladies and gentlewomen, and to avoid wrongful quarrels. Membership includes Launcelot, Gawaine, Tristram, Gareth, Palamides, and many others whose deeds and battles are recorded by Merlin's master Bleise.

House of Orkney

The family of King Lot and Queen Morgawse (Arthur's half-sister), including sons Sir Gawaine, Sir Agravaine, Sir Gaheris, and Sir Gareth. Gawaine is sworn by a tomb inscription to avenge his father's death upon King Pellinore, tying the family into a long blood feud within the Round Table.

The Eleven (and later more) Rebel Kings

A coalition of kings, first six and later eleven, who gathered great hosts against Arthur out of rebuke and despite at being unseated at Carlion, forcing Arthur to call on King Ban and King Bors of Gaul for aid at the castle of Bedegraine.

The Sword in the Stone

A sword fixed in a stone (with an anvil) that only the true-born king of Britain can draw. Arthur pulls it free with ease multiple times at Christmas, Candlemas, and Easter while many jealous lords fail, though his kingship is only fully accepted after repeated public trials through Pentecost.

Excalibur and its Scabbard

Arthur's magical sword, later at the center of a plot by Morgan le Fay and her lover Accolon to substitute a false blade and kill Arthur; the plot fails and Accolon dies, but Morgan afterward steals the sword's enchanted scabbard, which protects its bearer from blood loss.

The Four Waters of Paradise

A miraculous healing water carried in a vial by the knight Sir Priamus, mixed with balm to anoint and wash wounds; used to fully heal Sir Gawaine and Priamus within an hour after a brutal single combat during the Roman campaign.

La Cote Male Taile's Black Shield

A black shield bearing a white hand holding a sword, carried into Arthur's court by a damsel on behalf of a dying knight who could not finish his quest; Sir Kay tries to claim it but is told he is unworthy, and it is eventually taken up by the knight who becomes known as La Cote Male Taile.

The Roman War

Twelve aged Roman ambassadors come to Arthur's court demanding truage (tribute) for Britain; Arthur refuses, gathers his lords in parliament at York, and leads a campaign into Almaine and Italy against Emperor Lucius, ultimately defeating the Romans and being crowned Emperor himself after victories that include Sir Gawaine's duels with Saracen champions.

The Questing Beast

A strange and terrible beast that Arthur beholds in a dream-vision at Carlion; King Pellinore becomes obsessed with hunting it, at one point taking Arthur's own horse to continue the chase.

The Dolorous Stroke

The grievous, prophetically significant wound Balin deals to King Pellam, an event later tied into the mysteries of the Sangreal (Holy Grail) quest, and one which brings lasting sorrow to the lands touched by it.

Blood-cure Custom of the Sick Lady's Castle

A castle custom demanding that any passing damsel who is a king's daughter and a clean maid must bleed into a silver dish to cure the castle's ailing lady; Balin's companion bleeds for the cause without success, foreshadowing that only Sir Percivale's sister will later cure the lady with her blood, at the cost of her own life.

The Love Drink of Tristram and Isoud

A potion intended for Isoud and King Mark on their wedding night, mistakenly drunk by Isoud and Tristram aboard ship while escorting her to Cornwall, binding the two in an inescapable, ruinous love that persists throughout Tristram's adventures and marriage to another woman.