Strange images of Medieval Knights and Sunken Castles

Sir Gawain at the Sea

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From the pool emerged a Knight clad in green armor, a giant crab fashioned to his chest plate. His skin was a light green with fish scales at the back of his strong neck. Strands of pearl hang from tendrils of seaweed that hangs from his shoulders like a great cloak. His mount was a horse-like phantom full at home in the depths of the sea. This creature too was green, and spangled brightly that it shown almost golden. It's countenance was fierce and unsettling to hehold. The flesh was wispy over bone with sinister aspect.

Sir Gawain, goodly stoned on the turks fine herb, was not unsettled in his stony wonder. He sat with dignified silence and eyed the sttrange knight with detached regard, there being no overt signs of offense.

A Voice of crashing waves and crackling sea foam spoke: "By that Garter, I know you."

Gawain: "Many of my Brothers bear this Garter, that is, Fair Sir, not adequate to riddle my name."

"But the Garter you wear is unique among the twelve, only yours bears the Sign of the Scorpion." The last words enuciating like a blow hole, in airy thunder.

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Gawain: "I am loath to admit to you, My Strange Sir, that what you know to be true is not false. Ths case indeed is true and is a secret being known only to Myself and the Lady who gave it. Answer me with no riddle. What is thy true name and how did thou come to know such a secret."

"Gawain, for that is your name. I will tell you these things as soon as you take my steed."

Gawain: "I will not dismount without contest."

"You are too bold but too good; your contest is met and name riddled. Behold your Reflection."

Gawain looked at the sea as it surged around him. High it surged and under the surface Gringloet did sink. Unseated for a moment as the white foam and turnulence changed gravity and displaced his heavy armored body. The waters pull away very quickly then turn still as glass.

Gawain looks into his reflection and he is astride the ghost-horse and wearing the green armor. The strange Knight no longer visible. The sea wind speaks: "Straightaway take this mine armor, and arm yourself therewith, and mount this my steed, which will carry ye surely, and without fail on the Great Quest..."

The ghost-horse turned up its head and inside his head Gawain could hear the words... "I am Kelpie, and your service is my prize for the riddle. I was present when Morgane was presented that garter by The Great Tia, in her Ocean Underworld Palace. I was there because Morgane had summoned me to make the dangerous treck to visit the Tia in the great wastes of the undersea realms. It is The Great Tia who has sent me to retrieve the knight who wears the green garter... for her Service."