#green knight

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The Green Knight

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favourite christmas story 🌿

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https://x.com/tommchenry/status/1428891618770407428/

[enthyrea]

green knight studies except im just studying dev patel's face

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You know I had to do it to em

[ordheist]

had a little time to sketch up a knight based on Goran Gligovic’s challenge

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[panelperday]

Poor misguided Gawain, you cannot feed that flame and burn here forever... lay down that sword and find your peace in the dirt at my feet

[grassyeggroll]

My best friend in the world

[illustratus]

The Green Knight by Julek Heller

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

I made a graph to illustrate the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight adaptation I am aware of (based on level of Gawain/Bercilak horny)

The 1973 movie and the 1984 Sword of the Valiant are in exile because they are just a bunch of coward writers in a trenchcoat.

[soni-dragon]

gawain and the green night but bertilak is under a curse that turns him into a dragon, lindworm-esque, creature sometimes

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[maniculum]

Both sides of a sample card from our current kickstarter project, a collection of 50 system-neutral magic items for TTRPGs, inspired by medieval literature, marginalia, and archaeology.

I'm sure many of you recognize this particular item, since Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is not hugely obscure as medieval literature goes, especially after the movie with Dev Patel from a few years ago. (I'm making the possibly unwarranted assumption that most people reading this have a pre-existing interest in medieval literature.)

Those of you who are sufficiently familiar to have Opinions on it might question why our interpretation is particularly good at decapitation, since famously the Green Knight only requires that Gawain strike a blow, and it's Gawain's choice to decapitate him. For this I point you to the text:

Þe grene knyȝt vpon grounde grayþely hym dresses, A littel lut with þe hede, þe lere he discouerez, His longe louelych lokkez he layd ouer his croun, Let ��e naked nec to þe note schewe.

When Gawain is preparing to strike the blow, the Green Knight intentionally positions himself to make his neck a target, going so far as to move his hair out of the way. He never says "cut off my head", but he implies that is the right course of action because he wants Gawain to make that choice.

So our version of the Axe of the Green Knight is enchanted to also encourage that behavior. It doesn't come with any sort of curse requiring that you receive any blow you strike with it after a year and a day, but if an ambitious GM thinks that would work in their campaign, they're welcome to toss that in of course.

Anyway, the kickstarter runs until the end of June, and you can back it here:

[flabbergastedpigeon]

the green knight where everything's the same except sabers there

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