Rediscovery: The Origin Of King Arthur

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The story about to be told is now probably a long forgotten tale, the true origin of King Arthur’s father, a story that has been subjected to the fabrication and the falsehoods by future writers desiring fame and a place in history. These are the real events leading to King Uther Pendragon’s birth, the father to King Arthur, retold by me, Matt Tanzman, a noble and possibly one of the greatest historians and scholars ever in, or likely ever to be in King Arthur’s court. My writing regarding the father of King Arthur’s origin had been made in secret, written in the Latin language to assure secrecy, and hidden away until its’ future potential rediscovery. King Arthur didn’t want this information about his father’s origin being exposed and widespread …show more content…
Alexander defended the castle of Lindisfarne for a full year. In that year, Gwen the Beautiful had given birth to Alexander’s bastard child, Brutus, while under siege by Julius who had hoped to save his promised fair and famously beautiful maiden. When the castle had finally been captured a year after Alexander’s initial invasion, Julius had felt betrayed and heartbroken for the loss of his future wives’ purity. Julius had been known for his paranoia of a then century old prophecy, which passed down father to son since its creation, “The foreign bastard shall kill thy father and House Benedict shall fade in time passed.” In his fury, he decided to smite Gwen for her perceived sins and kill Alexander of House Aristilcus and their illegitimate newborn, Brutus. Julius, because of his sorrow caused by the perceived betrayal, locked Gwen in a tower to make sure she was his and his wife alone where she had given birth to her three children; Pompeii, Tiberius, and Augustus. The war was continued by Alexander’s trueborn heir, Leonidas the Young Lion to avenge his father’s death and to end Julius of House Benedict’s

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