(urth) More Castleview (Spoilers)

[Matthew Keeley]

I hadn't seen that in the archives, as the only stuff I've read on
Castleview in the archives is the stuff from last month, but it does make
sense. I believe there's even a comment somewhere about there being many
people "of the king's blood." Thanks for the clarification.

-Matt

On 6/19/07, Michael Straight <mfstraight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/19/07, Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 1.There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether Wrangler / Arthur
> > Dunstan or Will Shields is the "real" Arthur; this got me thinking about
> > just how many characters in Castleview seem to represent either part of
> an
> > Arthurian figure or several Arthurian figures.
>
> You may have seen this in the archives, but one of the ideas in the
> book (I believe this is straight from Wolfe), is that the gene pool in
> Arthur's time was so small and there's been enough generations of
> mixing so that today, almost anyone with European ancestors is a
> descendant of Arthur. So while the faerie folk seem be looking for the
> "true" descendant of Arthur (it's not clear whether they realize this
> or not), in fact, everyone human in the story is equally a true
> descendant of Arthur.  And so several of the characters end up acting
> out various pieces of that role.
>
> Rostrum
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