Grailquest: Castle of Darkness Bk. 1 (Armada Original)

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His first marriage ended in divorce in the 1970s. [3] He met his second wife, Judy, in 1978 in Edinburgh while he was working for BBC Northern Ireland; she was a travel agent from the US and the mother of three children from a previous marriage. He relocated to the United States in 1979 after marrying her. He was unable to get a United States Permanent Resident Card (green card), so he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit. [1] He later became an American citizen. [3] [8] Career [ edit ] With the success of the Sharpe series, Cornwell began to write about other periods and historical events in English and American history, both in series and in single novels. Azincourt was released in the UK in October 2008. The protagonist is an archer who participates in the Battle of Agincourt, a devastating defeat suffered by the French during the Hundred Years' War. In 2004, he released The Last Kingdom, beginning the Saxon Stories centered on protagonist Uhtred of Bebbanburg and telling how the nation of England began forming under King Alfred the Great. He realized that few in England knew how England began, unlike Americans who have a clear date for their nation's beginning—so this became his "big story". His own ancestral roots gave him the "little story" in the protagonist Uhtred. [3] [13] [14] The Grail Legend (also known as the Grail Quest, Quest for the Holy Grail) developed in Europe c. 1050-1485 CE. It most likely originated in Ireland as folklore before appearing in written form sometime before 1056 CE in The Prophetic Ecstasy of the Phantom, an Irish tale. The concept was popularized by the French poet Chretien de Troyes (l. c. 1130-1190 CE) in his Perceval or the Story of the Grail (c. 1190 CE) which he left unfinished and was completed by other poets in the work known as the Four Continuations.

In said first book, The Undead are devoid of LIFE POINTS ('cause they're, you know, dead) and need to be destroyed in one shot with a high enough roll. Later on, undead are treated like any other enemy (although their LIFE POINTS are called DEATH POINTS). Jung, Emma and von Franz, Marie-Louise. The Grail Legend, Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 116–117. Talking Weapon: E.J. also speaks. He gets more talkative as the series progresses, and in later books gains the ability to read your thoughts. Perceval and his sister, Grail Family ( Fisher King, Grail Maiden), Joseph of Arimathea, Knights of the Round Table ( Galahad, Bors), Morgan A major mural series depicting the Quest for the Holy Grail was done by the artist Edwin Austin Abbey during the first decade of the 20th century for the Boston Public Library. Other artists, including George Frederic Watts [59] and William Dyce, also portrayed grail subjects. [60] Literature [ edit ]Interview with Bernard Cornwell". Radio.nationalreview.com. 21 January 2009. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011 . Retrieved 12 September 2011. Excalibur Junior (E.J.): Pip's magical talking sword. It was created by Merlin, who based its design on King Arthur's sword (hence the "Junior"). E.J. is quite powerful but has the annoying tendency of speaking its mind at inconvenient times, and can even refuse to be pulled from its scabbard (showing an ability similar to its namesake) when in a bad mood. E.J. also suffers from arachnophobia, which is a disadvantage when Pip runs into giant spiders.

Pip's Instant Levity and Laughter (P.I.L.L. for short) - Causes a single enemy to laugh so hard and misses the next three consecutive turns in combat. Bernard Cornwell Talks The Pagan Lord, The Challenges of Historical Fiction, And Future Plans | Emertainment Monthly". 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 22 June 2014 . Retrieved 12 June 2022. In some of the books, Merlin provides Pip with magic spells. In the first book, Pip has only two spells - ten firefingers (lightning bolts) and two powerful fireballs. The firefinger lightning bolts hit automatically for a straight 10 points of damage, while the fireballs score a massive 75 points of damage each, but require a 6 or better on two dice or else they miss completely. Pip's Immunity to Poison (P.I.P. for short) - If cast before poison is taken, it completely counteracts the effects of the poison. The spell does not function if cast after Pip has already been poisoned, however. There is no defence roll, but damage is reduced by a set amount by any armour the character is wearing.The video game Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999) features an alternate version of the Grail, interwoven with the mythology of the Knights Templar. The Holy Grail is revealed in the story to be the blood of Jesus Christ that contains his power, only accessible to those descended from him, with the vessel of the Grail being defined as his body itself which the Templars uncovered in the Holy Lands. Cast from Hit Points: Pip's basic spells cost 3 LIFE POINTS; magic you can find in the adventure tends to take more. Steven Spielberg's adventure film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) features Indiana Jones and his father in a race for the Grail against the Nazis.

This is the official home of Herbie Brennan, creator of Grailquest, Horror Classics and other gamebooks. In the 12th episode of season 9 of the American show The Office, Jim Halpert sends Dwight Schrute on a wild goose chase to find the Holy Grail. After Dwight completing all the clues to find it, but coming up empty handed, the camera cuts to Glenn drinking out of it in his office. [66] Cornwell, Bernard (1994). Sharpe's Eagle. London: HarperCollins Publishers. pp.vi–vii. ISBN 978-0-00-780509-9. Influenced by the 1982 publication of the ostensibly non-fiction The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (2003) has the "grail" taken to refer to Mary Magdalene as the "receptacle" of Jesus' bloodline (playing on the sang real etymology). In Brown's novel, it is hinted that this Grail was long buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, but that in recent decades its guardians had it moved to a secret chamber embedded in the floor beneath the Inverted Pyramid in the entrance of the Louvre museum. The Holy Grail ( French: Saint Graal, Breton: Graal Santel, Welsh: Greal Sanctaidd, Cornish: Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Various traditions describe the Holy Grail as a cup, dish, or stone with miraculous healing powers, sometimes providing eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance, often guarded in the custody of the Fisher King and located in the hidden Grail castle. By analogy, any elusive object or goal of great significance may be perceived as a "holy grail" by those seeking such. [1]

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In the cinema, the Holy Grail debuted in the 1904 silent film Parsifal, an adaptation of Wagner's opera by Edwin S. Porter. More recent cinematic adaptations include Costain's The Silver Chalice made into a 1954 film by Victor Saville and Brown's The Da Vinci Code turned into a 2006 film by Ron Howard. Invisibility (I.N.V.I.S.I.B.I.L.I.T.Y. for short) - This spell is an exception to the normal rules of magic in that it can only be cast once per adventure for a cost of 15 Life Points, and only in designated areas, but the effect renders Pip completely invisible. Hedgecoe, Guy (2014-03-28). "Spanish historians claim to have found Holy Grail". The Irish Times . Retrieved 2022-05-28. Aristocrats Are Evil: While the series has a fair amount of Reasonable Authority Figures, others, such as Guy Vexille, Sir Simon Jekyll, and Duke Charles of Blois are thoroughly nasty individuals.