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3 unusual facts about Spirit of Excalibur


Spirit of Excalibur

The starting episode opens with Lord Constantine visiting the ruler of Northumberland in the northernmost part of England and he is urgently required to return to the south to Camelot in order to claim Arthur's throne.

The game's sources include medieval works such as Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, modern ones such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, and a number of historical treatises on Arthur of the late 1980s.

Cities and regions are named after modern English locations, some of which did not exist in Arthurian Britain (e.g. Arundel Castle appears as the fortress of the lord of Sussex, but the castle was not built in the form depicted in the game until Norman conquest in 1066).



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Vengeance of Excalibur

The game begins two years after Spirit of Excalibur left off: Britain has been reunited under King Constantine III, who succeeds King Arthur after the Battle of Camlann, and peacefully rules over the realm after killing Mordred's sons and their aunt, Morgan le Fay.