The lost scabbard
Morgan threw Excalibur's scabbard into a lake, and Arthur never found it. Someone else might have.
Morgan threw Excalibur's scabbard into a lake and Arthur never found it. The scabbard, not the sword, is the thing that keeps its bearer from bleeding. Someone else found it: a miller's daughter, a poacher, a nun draining a fish pond. Write what the scabbard does to a life that was never meant to carry it, and what it costs to keep or to give up.
- Length
- 400–1200 words
- Wanted
- story
- Tone
- Folk tale told close to the ground, with the court far away.
What would contradict the canon
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- The scabbard never reaches Arthur. The canon has him without it at the end.
- It protects from bleeding; it is not a sword, a wish, or a cure for illness.
- No court rescue: if Camelot appears at all, it appears as rumour.
Already sealed, and binding
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- PlaceCamelotArthur's chief castle and city, seat of the Round Table and the brightest court in Christendom.Core canonArchivist19 Sep 2025
- ArtifactExcaliburArthur's sword, given by the Lady of the Lake, and a scabbard worth more than the blade.Core canonArchivist19 Sep 2025
- CharacterMorgan le FayArthur's half-sister, a sorceress of great learning who works against him and at the end carries him to Avalon.Core canonArchivist19 Sep 2025
One way it might open
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Her father said the weir had caught a drowned dog, and sent her down with the hook.
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