L is for the Lady of the Lake

The Lady of the Lake is Bretonnia's patron goddess. “The Lady" and her cult is the very foundation of the kingdoms of Bretonnia.

Appearing before the knight Gilles le Breton and his closest counsel more that 1500 years ago, on the eve of a great battle, she blessed each them and with a sip from a magical grail, made them the first Grail Knights. They went into battle the next day to defeat a massive Greenskin army of Orcs and Goblins. The victory cemented the feudal system of Bretonnia.

Rarely worshipped outside Bretonnia, within the Empire The Lady is seen as a servant of the goddess Myrmidia. Blasphemy, even heresy, in Bretonnia, this understanding aligns well with Myrmidia's warlike aspect and martial ken. In some seminaries, especially Myrmidian, the teaching goes so far as to state that The Lady is just another name for Myrmidia.

Then there is the question of The Lady's most faithful servants and messengers, the Grail Damsels. It is whispered these messengers are just Elven magic users that leverage the goddess's influence in the politics of Bretonnia to protect and secure the borders of magical Elven forest Athel Loren. If this is true, there are scholars too that suggest the The Lady is an aspect of Ariel, the Queen in the Woods and possibly a god-touched conscientious of the Athel Loren itself.

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