As some of you may know I've recently fallen in love with Pundit's awesome Medieval Authentic OSR game "Lion & Dragon". And I want to make a sort of Medieval Authentic setting for it, similar to Pundit's Dark Albion, but in a separate world from it.
So, do not expect Frogland or The Unconquered Sun or any of the other specific touches that were created by Pundit for Dark Albion as this setting is separate from Dark Albion.
The setting I have in mind is titled Dark Avalon and it is based on the Arthurian Legend and the Matter of Britain, much as how Dark Albion is based on The War of the Roses. While the stories of King Arthur have been covered by many other games such as Pendragon, I have yet to see it in the OSR.
Dark Avalon can best be described as Medieval Authentic, but not Medieval Accurate. It is not history as it actually was, but rather history as it was viewed by the Medieval historians and historiographers with some obvious magical and mythical elements as well.
The world of Dark Avalon is ostensibly Sub-Roman Britain in a vague and unspecified mythic bygone age of legends and heroes, but it is Sub-Roman Britain as it was portrayed in the works of Sir Thomas Malory, Christien de Troyes, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Robert de Boron, and other writers of the medieval era, particularly Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur and similar Chivalry Romances from the Late Middle Ages.
As such, the world of Dark Avalon is one rooted in romanticism and medieval pseudo-history where Roman emperors and Celtic druids co-exist alongside great stone castles and knights in shining armor and it is assumed that the events of The Bible, Greco-Roman traditions, the Matter of Britain, and Celtic works such as Mabinogion and The Book of Invasions are all treated as actual historical fact of varying degree.
There are several setting details I have been working on for the world of Dark Avalon and I have in mind several interpretations for various Arthurian figures as NPC's in this Arthurian world.
This thread will serve as a development thread for many of my ideas, so forgive me if I double-post in it from time to time.