Essential Material: Nimue
Added 2017-10-24 03:59:00 +0000 UTCNimue [Heroic Spirit]
Lady of the Lake
In the Dark Ages of Britain, a young girl was born to a faithful devotee of the goddess of the moon, Diana. In repayment for his steadfast faith and worship, the girl was born with the attribute of the fairies and blessed with a bewitching beauty that bordered on a curse. It was this beauty that drew to her the Magician of Flowers, Merlin, and which convinced him to take her as his apprentice.
In Lancelot’s story, she is referred to by the name Vivian. When the king and queen were driven from their kingdom, carrying with them their infant son, as the queen tended to her husband’s wounds before succumbing to her own, at that time, this woman appeared and took the little prince into her kingdom beneath the lake.
It was also she who delivered Excalibur and its sheath into the hands of the king, and later, she who accepted it back upon the king’s death.
This woman, appearing often in the tales of King Arthur and his Round Table as the queen of half-fairy women, is the Lady of the Lake, Nimue.
