#Garden of Avalon

[chronologiical]

It was not love.

#my art #fate/grand order #garden of avalon #merlin #arturia pendragon #fgo #fate/ #merlin fgo #for years merlin and arturia wasn't really in my radar #UNTIL I READ GARDEN OF AVALON #what do you mean proper history britain is just as shit as faerie britain #what do you mean arturia tried so hard for nothing #what do you mean the counter force #WHAT DO YOU MEAN I MIGHT HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH YOU #i'm glad it wasn't anything romantic cause i really enjoyed their teacher pupil relationship #my highlights in the novel were kay being the oberon we need by calling out on the bullshit arturia is going through #merlin's excitement when arturia gave up on the grail #AND MY BOY BEDIVERE BEING WITH HIS KING TO THE END #it's short but what a wonderful read! #i meant to post this around valentines but i only finished it now #:D

[reignsan]

Complete translation of the Garden of Avalon novella, which is Merlin recounting the Fate version of the story of King Arthur. Originally published in 2015.

Includes scenes such as Artoria drawing Caliburn from the stone, Artoria vs Vortigern, Artoria vs Mordred at the Battle of Camlann, and various points of view of the knights such as Lancelot taking Guinevere to his castle after breaking her out of prison.

#fate stay night #fate grand order #garden of avalon #merlin #artoria pendragon #king arthur

[madillhethen]

Why I love Merlin. He’s so incredibly gentle, yet scheming—I like that TM went and didn’t make him the typical old man wizard, he’s cheeky like Gandalf but almost devilish in nature.

The beautiful Mage of Flowers.

#Garden of Avalon #Mad’s LN: GoA #Merlin #fate series #everyone suggested I read Garden of Avalon to know more of Saber #with the translation completed I thought it was a good chance to start it #i did read partial translation I believe something with Lancelot before #Mage of Flowers

[matt-lifesage]

spinning the final conversation between Merlin and Saber around in my brain, y'all.

#garden of avalon #enjoyed reading GoA way more than expected #Fate is the only series that would hide its Arthurian retelling in a novella booklet that came with an anime blu-ray #fate series

[itznarcotic]

As of a couple of hours ago, the Garden of Avalon Light Novel has been fully translated through the means of Japanese fluent Type Moon fans instead of primarily a machine.

For those who don't know, Garden of Avalon is a Light Novel surrounding the life of Artoria, the KoTR, Queen Guinevere, and other related characters. It details events from when the sword was pulled from the stone to when Artoria died following the aftermath of the Battle of Camlann, alongside other lore tidbits and details. Whether you're a big Artoria fan wanting more content or you just want more fleshed out details regarding Nasuverse Britain during King Arthur's reign, I highly recommend reading through this.

Translation credit goes to UdonSamurai and Manolo on the r/grandorder subreddit (post link here).

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#fate #fsn #fate stay night #artoria pendragon #saber #garden of avalon #garden of avalon tl

[keykidpilipili]

Reading the finished translation of Garden of Avalon and man...

#garden of avalon #the Arthuria and Merlin content is real juicy

[sanhatipal]

Hey hey guess what!

I printed and bound the Garden of Avalon novel!

I used the translation by Yusuke and Manolo posted on r/grandorder in August 2022, not the MTL

It's a kettle stitch bound softcover book with a jacket cover. I'm really pleased with how it turned out! Saber is one of my all time favourite characters ever,and my favourite Fate character,and I'm really happy I was able to do this. One day I'll bind the fsn VN...one day,I swear

#fate saber #fate stay night #garden of avalon #artoria pendragon #kinoku Nasu #i may not enjoy saberfaces but Artoria herself is my beloved one true king #fate grand order #fgo

[versegm]

Staring out of the window thinking about how Saber was created with a dragon heart so she would be strong enough to lead Britain into the age of man, but by leading Britain into the age of man she turned the world into something fundamentally incompatible with any sort of mystical creature, which includes dragons, which includes herself. There was never a way for Saber to live through this.

#fate #gardens of avalon #saber #blue saber #artoria pendragon

[chronologiical]

my top 3 favourite master and servant combo ✰

#my art #fate/grand order #fate/zero #fate/apocrypha #fgo #waver velvet #iskandar fate #shishigou kairi #mordred #caenis #kirschtaria wodime #and as you can see #i clearly have a type #a loud one and a kinda calm one #that's a lie #waver is never calm #i just read garden of avalon and i have so many things to say about merlin and arturia #but i'll keep that to the next draw #i'm just going to be on my fate obsession roll for the next few months cause i also just started reading case files #LORD EL MELLOI II LORE EVERYBODY

[freezing-kaiju]

It’s okay like this. We cannot hope for anything closer. I beg forgiveness, for asking even this much.

Minifemslashfeb prompt… I couldn’t decide between haunting, hands to hold, and in the shadows. So I’ll use two of those onwards

#Arturia pendragon #Guinevere fate #fate stay night #fate garden of Avalon #fate series #minifemslashfeb2024 #femslash February #kj draws a thing

[gensokyogarden]

❣ Merlin

Dating pros and cons

Pros

-Merlin's ability (separate from her sisters) is that she plays music which enhances your positive emotions (Manic notes). Which means that when her partner hears her beautiful songs they feel an even stronger sense of happiness and love.

-Perfect Memento describes her as the most eyecatching in the Prismrivers, the one that stands out the greatest during performances, and having many fans. With this in mind I'm going to say that Merlin is quite the mix of beautiful and charming.

-Merlin is cheerful and happy. The kind of person that can brighten the mood with just her presence.

Cons

-If you move in, you have to share the place with her two poltergeist sisters and her ghost sister. That's a lot of roommates in a place with only one bathroom.

-Musical performance is something that takes a lot of practice, even when you're talented. A good bit of her time is spent practicing with the rest of the Prismriver Esemble. Her partner is certainly welcome to come but her focus is on the music.

-She's also described in Perfect Memento as sometimes slipping into saying total nonsense statements and not being easy to converse with alone. That probably puts a damper on relationships.

#adventurersdelight #flowers for avalon ~ merlin #garden almanac ~ headcanons

[starbornsoulrider]

you’re chilling out in valedale village. probably waiting for the championship to start or browsing the horses or something. the village is peaceful and quiet, as always.

then suddenly- you hear shouting and turn your head to see some druid guy screaming “HALO, I SWEAR TO AIDEEN IF YOU TRY TO EAT MY ROSES AGAIN I WILL HAVE YOU BANISHED-“ as he chases a frantic pointy-eared gremlin down the street. bonus: there’s some weird old guy with pink scars and a staff almost falling over with laughter as he tries to run after them

#Halo is the BANE of Avalon’s existence #they steal flowers from his garden and is always glaring at him #and takes every opportunity they get to roast him #generally they just do NOT like each other lmao #sso #star stable #star stable online #sso oc #blake crazyfrog #shut up blake #shitpost #avalon #evergray

[matt-lifesage]

surely I can read about Saber without being overwhelmed by a cascade of emotio-- OH GOD OH FUCK THEY GOT ME AGAIN

#garden of avalon #fate series

[masteravalon]

[ Avalon Waist-Up Collection ]

My fursona Avalon in three varying outfits~

(Oct 10, 2018)

#fursona #furry #anthro #OC #original character #avalon librus #my art #digital art #anthro art #furry art #crop top #bisexual #savage garden #casiopea

[strangefellows]

I'd ask about all your servant hcs but I'm still working my way through UBW before I even get back to FGO, so I'm restraining for the sake of avoiding spoilers. If you wanna gush about Vortigern and who he is in the myths, and how that might compare to FGO, that'd be neat though! I know nothing about him so I'm curious.

UGH FUCK TUMBLR ATE THE FIRST VERSION OF THIS SO THIS IS GOING TO BE SHORTER AND WORSE BUT

Vortigern, okay, so. 

IRL mythology wise he's not really...he's a lot older, and really there's only one myth tying him to Arthuriana -- my favorite lol -- and that's the story of him, Merlin/Emrys, and the dragons.

According to legend, when Vortigern fled into Wales to escape the Anglo-Saxon invaders, he chose this lofty hillfort as the site for his royal retreat. Every day his men would work hard erecting the first of several proposed towers; but the next morning they would return to find the masonry collapsed in a heap. This continued for many weeks until Vortigern was advised to seek the help of a young boy not conceived by a mortal man. The King sent his soldiers out across the land to find such a lad. The boy they found was called Myrddin Emrys (Merlin Ambrosius). Vortigern, following the advice of his councillors, was planning to kill the boy in order to appease supernatural powers that prevented him from building a fortress here. Merlin scorned this advice, and instead explained that the hillfort could not stand due to a hidden pool containing two vermes (dragons). He explained how the White Dragon of the Saxons, though winning the battle at present, would soon be defeated by the Welsh Red Dragon. After Vortigern's downfall, the fort was given to High-King Ambrosius Aurelianus, known in Welsh as Emrys Wledig, hence its name. (Wikipedia, Dinas Emrys)

As for Fate Vortigern -- specifically PHH (Proper Human History) Vortigern -- we have info on him from an older novel and from FGO itself; the FGO info does contradict some of the older info, but not all, so for the most part I’ll be relying on the FGO stuff.

Near the end of the fifth century, after the Roman Empire's collapse, Britain was inhabited by many tribes led by kings. The kings worked together except for Vortigern. The brother of the strongest king Uther Pendragon, Vortigern was said to be the personification of the white dragon, born from within Britain to destroy it. He was born by Britain itself interfering with his conception, making him something more than human. He was the incarnation of the will that tried to reject the Age of Man. [...] Artoria Pendragon, the incarnation of the red dragon, was created by Uther to oppose the incarnation of the white dragon, Vortigern. (TypeMoon Wiki, Vortigern)

Now, okay. Given that whole ‘Vortigern is the white dragon and Artoria is the red dragon’ and they’re meant to oppose each other, especially given it says ‘incarnation of the will that tried to reject the Age of Man’ -- it’s pretty easy to assume that Vortigern, the white dragon, is an embodiment of Gaia. I mean, FGO basically straight up confirms this:

Goredolf Musik states Proper Human History Vortigern is a Fae embodiment of Britain's will, specifically to preserve its Mysteries and destroy its humans. (TypeMoon Wiki, Vortigern)

Which, like Britain’s will = the Planet’s will = Gaia for sure. After all, Gaia is explicitly the Planet’s will to survive, and the wiki even states that Gaia can and will see humans as a Threat to be Dealt With. And it tracks with Artoria being his opposition and a King of Mankind, given she would be an embodiment of Alaya to be his equal and opposite. In fact, yeah, this is where the novel also supports this too:

Vortigern is fundamentally opposed to humans ruling Britain and wants it to remain a land dominated by Mystery. (TypeMoon Wiki, Vortigern)

Really, Vortigern’s origins are the only thing the novel contradicts; but FGO is more recent, so I stick with just what it says, which is the above. And that to me opens a very interesting can of worms that parallels really delightfully with LB Vortigern, which is where the actual main part of the theory is. 

I’m specifically talking about the line “He was born by Britain itself interfering with his conception, making him something more than human.” Looking at that, looking at the fact that ‘Vortigern the White Dragon’ is more or less explicitly a Fae creature and implicitly a child of Gaia, and then looking at the fact that shoving THAT into a human vessel is probably a shitty idea, given that Humanity is the exact opposite of what Gaia represents…PHH Vortigern probably had a real bad time. After all, a Fae soul/Spirit Origin/essence in a human body seems like it would be fundamentally incompatible. An existential contradiction (looks at LB Vortigern pointedly). ESPECIALLY with the fact of his Faerie Eyes (which he probably also had in PHH if it states outright he’s a Fae), and that it specifies that a human would probably go insane with them. It’s really not hard to imagine that he started out fairly okay, but the pain and misery of his contradictory existence drove him insane.

I’m not sure if I want to buy that ‘destroy humanity in Britain’ was part of the initial ‘preserve Britain’s Mysteries’ goal, or if maybe he at first simply didn’t want to follow through with that part, being partially human, but by the end it’s clear he went completely mad and, well, destroy everything time! (Looks at LB Vortigern again.) Basically the parallels track really, really well, as someone who never meant to be truly evil, just a being created for a purpose, but the contradictory existence forced on him drove him insane with pain and misery until he just went full scorched earth on the world that was making him suffer. It’s just the specific contradiction (reality vs lies/fiction and human vs fae/nature) that differs. 

So following that, it’s my personal headcanon that PHH Vortigern was a good dude his early life, just Different and Faerielike, but over time his existence simply drove him mad and gave us the Vile King Vortigern he was at the end of it, so full of pain and rage and hate that he wanted to take it all with him. I would be happy to infodump about my further headcanons, namely his personality, relationship with Merlin, and all that, but that’s for a different post. (As is my headcanons about Merlin himself, which are probably extremely controversial lmao.)

#fate vortigern #fgo vortigern #phh vortigern #HAD TO REWRITE THIS UGH LMAO #it's a bit better formatted tho #fateseriesblogging #chara: white dragon of the abyss #i feel like half of this is common fandom knowledge already #or idk that i said something controversial or dumb w/o realizing #be nice to me i'm extremely new to the fandom and don't actually know much about lb6 #and i only know abt garden of avalon from the wiki #i'm baby

[gutsfics]

i added some cc to my game and updated my Thomas sim a lil :)

cc used: okruee's sebastian hair and jarisimcc's strabismus pack

#also added basemental & put some weed in their garden so. :) #also also i dont bother w sim fitness so he's been getting a bit plump on Avalon's cooking <3 which is accurate btw.