After the death of Uther Pendragon and many years of searching for a new king through the sword and the stone a young boy aged 15 finally had success in pulling the sword from the stone. A Druid man, meaning wizard or magician in the Ancient Celtic religion, by the name of Merlin had put the sword in the stone, he had said that person who could pull the sword out of the stone was the rightful king of Camelot. Arthur Pendragon, long lost son of Uther Pendragon, was the young boy to pull the sword out of the stone making him the High King of Camelot.

 

There were many who supported Arthur as the High King, for he had managed to pull the sword out of the stone when no one else could, not even Merlin himself, there were still those who were not happy about Arthur becoming the High King of Camelot. The eleven local Kings hated the fact that they would have to take orders from a mere boy, a boy who knew nothing about ruling a kingdom. The eleven Kings banned together and formed a rebellion against King Arthur proving just how much they hated the idea of a 15 year old boy being the High King. Merlin had been a friend and teacher to the young King saw the trouble that King Arthur was facing and decided to help him. Merlin took King Arthur to a magical Lake where a woman known as ‘Lady of the Lake’ lived beneath the water.

 

The Lady of the Lake gave Arthur a magical sword,

Excalibur, and scabbard, the case in which the sword

would be kept, that were to help Arthur when he was in

battle. The sword, when used in battle, would always

defeat the opponent and the scabbard would protect the

owner from being hurt himself. The only condition with

possessing these two items was that when Arthur died, the

sword Excalibur and the scabbard would be returned to

the Lady of the Lake. With the two new gifts in hand,

Arthur led a giant Army against the eleven rebel kings.

There were several battles that took place however with his gifts he could not die and he could not lose, so he won every battle. After all the battles and Arthur never dying the Kings agreed that Arthur was the true king and he should remain as the High King of Camelot.

 

As Arthur grew older, he married a princess by the name of Guinevere, daughter of King Leodegrance of Cameliard. At their wedding, Queen Guinevere's father gifted the newly weds a huge round table. This table became a place where Arthur and his 14 chosen knights would sit and discuss important matters. The round table meant that no one would be seen as superior nor would anybody be seen as inferior for there was no ends of the table that was so often seen to mean that those who sat on the ends were more important that those who sat in the middle of the table.

 

The people of Camelot and the Saxons, from Germany, did not get on well and so in turn, they had a lot of battles against each other. The Saxons would often try to take over Camelot but they were never able to take it and so they would often retreat. The knights of the round table fought a massive battle and finally properly defeated the saxons at the Battle of Mount Badon. Arthur was doing a great job as King, in fact he was doing so well that he was doing much better than the Roman Emperor in Italy, taking this into consideration he decided to take his army to Europe. After a lot of fighting, the Roman Emperor agree to give the western half of Europe to King Arthur.

 

Back in Britain the Knights went on several different quests and faced several minor battles, fought dragons and so on. Possibly the biggest and most commonly know quest was the quest for the Holy Grail. King Arthur's knight Sir Lancelot, ran away with Queen Guinevere betraying High King Arthur. King Arthur went through a massive quest to find Lancelot and when he eventually did he tried to kill Lancelot. However when he tried to strike Lancelot, he was not in possession of Excalibur and the scabbard as he left it on the floor, blinded by his lust to kill Lancelot. King Arthur was in turn killed and Excalibur and the Scabbard were returned to the Lady of the Lake on his command.