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Faerie, Breton

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An area of the Fey wild which is largely inhabited by an immigrant population from Albion

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Politics

Breton is on friendly terms with Camelot.

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Places

Broceliande
The Breton forest where many events associated with the Warriors of the Round Table of Albion happened. Including a magic fountain. A Black Knight appears when water was poured onto a precious emerald at the brim of the fountain

Joyous Gard

The fort of Lancelot ,Arthur presented Lancelot with the present of the castle in thanks for his Knight defending Queen Guinevere’s honour in a feud with Mador de la Porte

Mégalithes

Breton has an incredible number of standing stones

Allées couvertes

these are a line of rocks with other huge rocks lined up on top of them to make a roof. There are many connections with the fairies

Alignements

These are narrow and tall stones in lines and there are many of these they are used as part of a druid‘s cemeteries.

Dolmens

These these were created by fairies. One story is that a dolmen had nothing left but a flagstone which bore the inscription “Qui me tournera, gagnera”. Two peasants attempted this and then read Qui m’a tourné n’a rien gagné” which was not quite what they had anticipated as it meant whoever turned the stone gained nothing. However a third peasant took the stone home, broke it and found it held hundreds of pieces of gold.

Menhirs

These are groups of stones

Steles

Some of these hemispherical stones are fertility symbols sterile women visit the stone at night to rub their stomachs against the round stone and nine months to the day later have a baby.

Tumulus

These are earth covered dolmens and impressed the Breton peasants greatly in the past. At Kermein in Langonnet, the tumulus is 40 metres in diameter and to be the tomb of the King Morvan.

History

The Breton kingdom was founded when the Practoran goveror Maximus bestowed the crown on their puppet Eudaf. The people rebeled throwing out the Practorian forces and putting Ban on the throne.Ban became King of Breton . He supported Arthur in the battle with the rebel leaders at the outset of Arthur’s reign.In return for his assistance, Arthur was to aided him against his Practorian foe, Claudas. Ban and his entire family were killed in a fire that engulfed there fort only Lancealot survived Latter his son Lancelot became Arthur’s champion. Ban also had an illegitimate son, called Ector de Maris, whose mother was the wife of Agravadan. Ban’s sword was called Courechouse. He was the brother of King Bors of Belgaeg.

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