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twiceasmanysunbeams · 2 years

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ARCANUM MAIN CAST AS TAROT CARDS; @rc-appreciationweeks

thank you to @amnspages for helping me assign these!

#romance club #arcanum #selena #robert steltz #bert #bertilak de hautdesert #???#mary brown #damon #liam salisbury #rchalloweekend

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gaheriskinnie · 1 year

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2020 vs 2023

#not too happy with how gawain looks. but i was trying tp stay true to the original #sgatgk #sir gawain and the green knight #the green knight #gawain #arthuriana #art #my art #arthurian legend #king arthur #avis's doodles #bertilak de hautdesert #bertilak

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the-blue-fairie · 2 years

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Variations on The Green Knight made with NightCafe.

#Sir Gawain and The Green Knight #the green knight #sgatgk #Bertilak de Hautdesert #gawain and the green knight #medieval

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annapostsstuff · 2 years

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Jealous bf vibes❤️

#romance club #romance club game #arcanum #rc arcanum #rc rob #rob steltz #rc bert #bertilak de hautdesert #jealous bf vibes #I love them🫶🏻

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camelotpunk · 2 years

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Happy Friday! Here's a glimpse into a glitchy reimagining of Gawain and the Green Knight by @octowillow!

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#the green knight #a24 #sir gawain #gawain of orkney #bertilak de hautdesert #lord bertilak #sir gawain and the green knight #dev patel #fanart #arthuriana #arthurian legend #zine #sneak peeks

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lilmeowmeowsagelesath · 2 years

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thanks I HATE IT

#😭😭💔💔💔#he kept his word even in another world #wait but does he survive here if you didnt protect him in s2???? someone let me know!#bert #bertilak de hautdesert #arcanum bert #arcanum #arcanum spoilers #romance club #mine

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fisherkings · 4 months

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NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS:

- always keep promises

- be nice to everyone

- find joy despite the spectre of approaching death

- journey into strange lands in search of green chapel and the mysterious stranger who awaits me there

- find love?

- repent

- profit

#thinking about him at this very significant time of year (sir gawain time)#and keeping him in my thoughts as well (problematic fave / tsundere bf sir bertilak de hautdesert…)

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clytemnaestraes · 9 months

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Lady Stoneheart + Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Parallels and Symbolism

The steel was polished to such a high sheen that she could see her reflection in the breastplate, gazing back at her as if from the bottom of a deep green pond. The face of a drowned woman, Catelyn thought. Can you drown in grief? — Catelyn, ACOK

Catelyn's face reflected in renly's green armour reminded me of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I decided to dig into it and surprisingly found many things evocative of Lady Stoneheart.

1. A Judge

The Green Knight appears in Arthurian tales as a judge or tester of knights, challenging them to honour their promises. Lady Stoneheart plays a similar role in ASOIAF by demanding that jaime and brienne honour their promise to return her daughters or face death.

2. Colours: Green + Grey

It has been argued that green is wrongly attributed to the green knight owing to a mistranslation of the Cornish word glas, which means grey. In another variation of the story, the knight is often called "the man of the grey mantle".

Lady Stoneheart is heavily associated with grey.

Grey was the color of the silent sisters, the handmaidens of the Stranger. Brienne felt a shiver climb her spine. Stoneheart. — Brienne, AFFC

3. Identities and Aliases

At the end of the story, the green knight reveals himself to be Bertilak de hautdesert, Lord of a castle. Before getting resurrected as a fire wight, Lady Stoneheart was Catelyn tully stark.

On my honour as a Tully, on my honour as a Stark. — Catelyn, ASOS

4. A Game (of thrones)

The word gomen (game) is found 18 times in Gawain. Its similarity to the word gome (man), which appears 21 times, has led some scholars to see men and games as centrally linked.

The story itself began with a "Christmas game", known in folk stories as a "beheading game".

What... what game?

The only game. The game of thrones.

Catelyn ends up as Lady Stoneheart because her son wins every battle but loses the war, i.e., loses the game of thrones. Catelyn too was one of the players of the game, of course.

5. Winter, seasonality, and the rise and fall of things

The Green Knight tells Gawain to meet him at the Green Chapel in "a year and a day"—in other words, the next New Year's Day. Scholars interpret the yearly cycles, each beginning and ending in winter, as the poet's attempt to convey the inevitable fall of all things good and noble in the world

Winter is of course an extremely important motif in ASOIAF:

They are the knights of Summer, and winter is coming. — Catelyn, ACOK

It's also interesting to note that feasts are important events in both stories: the green knight first appears at a Christmas feast and Catelyn is killed at a wedding feast.

6. Trophies and Temptation: Girdles and Flayed skins

Roose bolton offers a piece of theon's flayed skin to Catelyn, and she is tempted to accept it.

"May I offer you this…small token of revenge?" Part of Catelyn wanted to clutch the grisly trophy to her heart, but she made herself resist. — Catelyn, ASOS

As Lady Stoneheart, she fully gives in to her temptation and ruthlessly pursues revenge.

"...She wants to feed the crows, like they did at the Red Wedding. Freys and Boltons, aye. We'll give her those, as many as she likes." —Brienne, AFFC

In Gawain's story, he is gifted a girdle by his hostess, the Lady Bertilak. He had earlier promised his host that he'd return whatever he got at the end of the day, but Lady Bertilak insists that it's a magical girdle that will prevent Gawain from being killed at the hands of the green knight. He gives in to temptation and keeps the girdle.

7. Chivalry and Contradictions: So many vows

The knight's code of honour requires Gawain to do whatever a damsel asks. Gawain must accept the girdle from the Lady, but he must also keep the promise he has made to his host that he will give whatever he gains that day. Gawain chooses to keep the girdle out of fear of death, thus breaking his promise to the host but honouring the lady.

Gawain's dilemma about whether to keep the girdle as ordered by his hostess or return it to his host and honour his promise to him reflects jaime's dilemma and the contradictory vows of knighthood.

So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other. — Jaime, ACOK

It's also interesting to note that the five pointed star or the pentangle is heavily associated with Gawain, reminiscent of the seven pointed star of the faith associated with Westerosi knights (and by extension with jaime) as they are anointed by the faith.

8. Wounds to the neck

Catelyn's throat is slit by the freys before they dumped her in the river, and as a result, she is unable to speak properly.

At the story's climax, Gawain is wounded in the neck by the Green Knight's axe.

The symbolism surrounding wounds:

During the medieval period, the body and the soul were believed to be so intimately connected that wounds were considered an outward sign of inward sin. The neck, specifically, was believed to correlate with the part of the soul related to will.

Hope you enjoyed this post!

#catelyn stark #asoiaf #lady stoneheart #the green knight #literature #sir gawain #jaime lannister #asoiaf mythology parallels #catelynisms #arthurian legend

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blessedicarus · 14 days

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Bertilak de Hautdesert... save me Bertilak de Hautdesert.....

#thegreenknight #gawain and the green knight #bertilak #bertilakdehaudesert #hesbiyourhonor

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twiceasmanysunbeams · 1 year

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arcanum cast vs. haunted house (real)

rob didn't go with but he managed to meet a real ghost anyways | @rc-appreciationweeks

sound on please 🙏🔊

#romance club #rchalloweekend #arcanum #robert steltz #selena #mary brown #bert #liam salisbury #josephine salisbury #hathor #damon #..... errrrrr #bertilak de hautdesert #YOU GET IT #can u believe i got this footage from rc themselves? <3

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bertilak-writes · 1 year

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Bertilak de Hautdesert?

Hell yeah.

Lord (and Lady) Bertilak are among my favourite Arthurian characters from my favourite Arthurian story. What better character to be named after than the mysterious Bertilak de Hautdesert?

(I also originally made this account when my project was a Green Knight rewrite- but I was worried It'd be too similar to the A24 movie and stopped working on it)

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froody · 1 year

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oh my god! Lord Bertilak de Hautdesert? 🤭😏😚😋

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camelotpunk · 2 years

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Here is an excerpt from "SiR_gAwAiN & The Green Night" by Dagmar 41 Klein, in which we follow a young Gawain as he sets off on his quest to a convention for a rematch with a green-armoured PVPer!

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#sir gawain #gawain #sir gawain and the green knight #sgatgk #the green knight #a24 #arthurian legend #arthuriana #lord bertilak #bertilak de hautdesert #zine #charity zine #hear ye hear ye #sneak peeks

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lilmeowmeowsagelesath · 2 years

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wait I finally played through all the latest arcanum update and uM,, , BERT DIED?!!!?;?;;

I MANAGED TO SAVE EVERYONE ELSE BUT YOURE TELLING ME MY BABY BERTILAK DIES NO MATTER WHAT WITH NO WAY TO PREVENT IT WTF MAN THIS AINT FAIR IM 😭😭😭😭