Characters / Kaamelott

Character page for the Arthurian Legend-inspired comedy series Kaamelott and its film, Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

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The Round Table

The Round Table in General

• Adaptational Wimp: When compared to the original stories, Arthur, Léodagan, Calogrenant and Lancelot are the only ones with any combat ability. The rest are incompetent morons, most of the time.
• Breaking the Fellowship: Way on its way during Book V, and fully realized in the ultimate episode of Book VI when Lancelot finally take over.
• Color-Coded Characters: Since the cast of the Round Table is mostly made of middle-aged dark-haired Frenchmen, with beards, some of whom are even related IRL, their costume colour is the easiest way to tell them apart.
  • Arthur: dark red, of course, fading to black as the series progresses.
  • Lancelot: gold and white, but increasingly white as the series progresses
  • Léodagan: dark blue
  • Bohort: green
  • Perceval: bright blue
  • Karadoc: bright red
  • Yvain & Gauvain: brown, with a more gold base for Yvain and more bronze-ish for Gauvain
  • Hervé de Rinel: mustard yellow
• Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: They get pretty much nothing done and prefer insulting each other.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Some of them might not even be knights.
• We Were Your Team: Few of them realize this, but Arthur is pretty much the only one that can make them work together at all.

King Arthur Pendragon

Played By: Alexandre Astier, Neil Astier (young)

The King of Britain. Illegitimate son of Uther Pendragon and Ygraine of Tintagel, he was sent abroad for a military education in Rome from ages 6-19.

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• Animal Motifs: Bears.
  • His name is derived from the old Celtic word for "bear" and he's rather proud of it.
  • In an episode, he gets offended when a translation mistake officially nicknames him "the Boar of Cornwall" instead of "the Bear of Cornwall" and demands to have it changed. He later learns that the nickname has now changed to "the half-bear, half-boar".
  • In the bedtime story he tells to Karadoc's nephew, his self-insert character is a bear cub.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: The magic sword helps a lot but even in the lighter early series he was shown as a capable fighter.
• Bad Mood Retreat : He likes to lounge on a bench in the castle's garden, even though it doesn't stop people to come bother him.
• Beary Friendly / Bears Are Bad News: See Animal Motif above. He tries to portray himself as having the positive qualities of both tropes (friendly and gentle to his allies, violent and intimidating to his enemies)... but the "bad news" that usually triumphs actually applies to himself. The most evident example is the "Little Bear Cub" bedtime story he tells to Karadoc's nephew : the eponymous self-insert character begins the story as an enthusiastic teddy bear-like protagonist with a heroic quest... and ends up failing, killing all his friends out of anger, and (possibly) committing suicide.
  Arthur: ...and then Little Bear Cub has depression. And everyday he wonders if he's gonna kill himself... or not...
• Big Good: Most commoners agree he is the best king they ever had. Even those that insults him admit that it's better with him around.
• Born in the Wrong Century: Arthur has ideas and ideals that fit more in modern era than during medieval times. His regime is noted to be far kinder toward women and the common people than during his father's rule and outside or his kingdom, and he wants to abolish torture, slavery, and the death penalty — all of which are barely comprehensible concepts to most people around him.
• Broken Ace: A great fighter, a good and beloved king and a very smart and cultured man for this era, Arthur is unable to progress on his quest for the Grail due to the incompetence and stupidity of those surrounding him and faces many obstacles to change the life of his kingdom for the better. He's also subject to doubts, loneliness and depression with him starting to go over the edge starting from Book IV until his suicide attempt in Book V.
• Bungled Suicide: After his ultimate failure at the end of Book V, he decides to slits his wrists in his bath, only to be rescued by Lancelot's white magic. He still takes about a year to recover, though.
• The Chains of Commanding: Trying to modernize Britain without turning everyone against you tends to wear people down.
• Chick Magnet: It's unknown if it's caused by his prowess in the bedroom or rather by the fact that he's the king.
• Child by Rape: His father used a shapeshifting potion to have sex with his mother, pretending to be her husband.
• The Chosen One: Like most versions of King Arthur, he was chosen by Excalibur to rule over Britain.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: He tries to be this to his knights, especially to Perceval, with limited success.
• Cool Uncle: To Gauvain. He can't stand his half-sister and is extremely wary of his brother in law — but he likes his nephew, and even lets Gauvain make his own clan so Gauvain doesn't have to choose between Arthur and his own father when the latter tried a coup.
• Cool Sword: Excalibur, which is wreathed in magical fire when Arthur wields it.
• Cultured Warrior: his knowledge on subjects like poetry, theatre or History is pretty expansive.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Merlin had to hide him so Uther doesn't kill him, it lead to an exile in Rome.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The black-wearing Big Good to Lancelot's white Big Bad. Interestingly, both used to wear more colorful clothes (red for Arthur, gold for Lancelot) back when they were working together: the shift to black and white symbolizes them literally drifting apart.
• Deadpan Snarker: When dealing with the more idiotic knights.
  Arthur: Are we still under the assumption I'm fighting someone with a fennel?
• Emergency Multifaith Prayer: Arthur gets taken to task by the Lady of the Lake for praying to Mars, in spite of being a Christian. Arthur retorts that neither she nor the Christian god have actually given him much support; they sent him off to find the Grail without giving him any indication where to look or even what the Grail looks like.
• Enraged by Idiocy: While he tries his best to be patient with the stupidity and incompetence of the people around him, and keeps trying to work with them due to his belief that everyone should have a chance, it's clear that his knights, wife and others' stupid actions and phrases are heavily wearing him down and he sometimes can become violent toward them when reaching his breaking point.
• Failure Hero: At the end of book V, Arthur has failed the three parts of the divine task he was given: he didn't find the Holy Grail; he failed to federate the kingdom as all of his friends are leaving to form autonomous clans and all his enemies are rebelling; and he is infertile so he has no heir to pass on his quest to.
• Flaming Sword: Though the sound evokes a Laser Blade.
• Fool for Love: He seems to be set on falling for women who are already married: first Aconia, then Mevanwi
• Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: Is the Gentle Touch to Léodagan's Firm Hand. Arthur isn't fond of violence, even for tournaments, and would rather solve his problems by diplomacy, while Léodagan takes any opportunity to execute people and always advocate military budget raises. Naturally, Arthur is the more loved ruler.
• Girls Like Musicians: Inverted. His mistress Demetra is more annoyed than happy to see him play the oud in bed.
• The Good King: To his annoyance more than anything, he mentions that normally he should kick some of the idiots pestering him out of the castle just for wasting his time but he is too goodhearted for it.
• Guile Hero: When not annoyed too much, he can be pretty cunning as seen with how he managed to unite Britain behind him while foiling Sallustus' plan and removing the Romans from Britain in Book VI, used the Burgudian King's inability to understand and speak his language to his advantage several times to trick the vikings into believing that he was offering them his lands or Attila into believing that the Burgundians were allies with him to deter the huns from attacking Kaamelott, and with him he used the burgundians' love and affinity for music to coordinate them into finally using their siege weapons properly in Premier Volet.
• Has a Type: Though he denies it, the majority of the women he slept with are "the latin type" — proud, elegant women with black hair and a strong personality... in other words, the exact opposite of his wife Guenièvre, who's more of a naïve Celtic girl next door.
• The Hero: Usually...
• Heroic Bastard: As of the legend he is Uther's bastard and the most noble of kings.
• Heroic BSoD: After Lancelot leaving, him sleeping with Karadoc's wife and the continued failure for the Grail he starts giving up by book V. Ménélagant tricking him into thinking he'll never have children drive him to suicide.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his bluntness and general assholery, he genuinely holds the ideals of the Round Table (that all knights, no matter their origin, status or title, sit as equals around the table) in high regards, so much so that one of the few scenes not Played for Laughs in the movie is when he sees the makeshift Round Table that some members of La Résistance made and insists that he and the ones present sit at it and introduce each other formally without a hint of irony or sarcasm.
• Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: Him and Guenièvre; he's popular with women, has a lot of mistresses, and makes it clear that he would have never married her if not for politics. Guenièvre, on the other hand, as been called ugly on more than one occasion; Lancelot seems to be the only one to disagree.
• Inherently Attractive Profession: He's the king. Suffice to say he's popular with the ladies. Only Azénor refuses his advances, before becoming his mistress after hearing all the benefits she could receive in this particular position.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Arthur's mission to find the Grail, and his responsibilities as king, combined with the endless amount of absurdity and incompetence he has to face everyday and his familial problems are clearly wearing him down. Things only get worse with Lancelot's departure and betrayal and he starts to want to escape his condition and give up, having his affair with Mevanwi, only to have to reject her and take Genievre back. By book V after seeing many of his companions leave Kaamelott including Merlin and Perceval and putting Excalibur into the stone on his mother's advice, Arthur finally gives up and renounces to pull Excalibur back, lying that he was unable to do so. Méléagant's manipulations to make him believe that he can't have a descendence finally push him over the edge and cause him to attempt suicide.
• Jerkass to One: In the three first volumes he often acts unfairly harsh to Guenièvre, not bothering to hide how much she annoys him and often venting out his frustrations after a bad day (which is more often than not) on her.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He wants to do the right thing and help the helpless. But Britain is full of helpless idiots and Arthur is a bit of a jerk himself so it leads to a lot of bitterness.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: Only when he considers knowing if he sired bastards or consider having kids thing starts getting complicated. According to Ménélagant Arthur can't give children that won't die stillborn.
• Lonely at the Top: As the series progresses it becomes increasingly clear that his charge as king and mission to find the Grail are weighting heavily on Arthur's shoulders, not helped by the constant stupidity and obstacles to his attempt to reform Britain and help the weak that he has to face everyday. His loneliness also doesn't help, with him having no friend he truly sees as an equal and confidant since the death of his best friend Manilius, which worsen his depression.
• Marriage of Convenience: With Guenièvre; he tries really little to make it work.
• Mole in Charge: The initial plan of the Romans, which failed due to Arthur siding with the locals and playing both sides to allow Sallustius to keep up appearances, while effectively removing all Roman presence in Britain.
• Not So Above It All: He has a few moments where he shows a more childlike and joyful side, such as in an episode where he imagines and play a whole story with a childish and imaginative tone in front of his stunned men, or having a Food War with Perceval and Karadoc in another episode.
• Only Sane Man: Deconstructed; it leads to his Heroic BSoD and the failure of the whole Quest for the Grail.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: To his annoyance at times, as he points out to Bohort the king next door cut fingers over slight and he has to escort his knight in the middle of the night because he is scared of ghosts.
• Red Is Heroic: At his peak, Arthur's costume is mostly red. However, when he starts to get depressed later on, his wardrobe shifts to darker tones until it's completely black in season V. The moment he starts wearing red again in the finale is when the viewer knows he's back to kick ass.
• Refusal of the Call: He's annoyed to no end that the people of Logres want him back for the early part of Kaamelott: Premier Volet and vocally refuses, then he reluctantly accepts to return and lead La Résistance against Lancelot.
• Rightful King Returns:
  • In the Prequel of Livre VI.
  • In The Movie eventually post-the end of Livre VI, though not without a great deal of Refusal of the Call at first.
• Romance and Sexuality Separation: A young Arthur desperately fell in love with a Roman woman but was unable to marry her. He remains faithful to her by not having sex with his wife Guenièvre (which causes its own problems because everyone's waiting on him to produce an heir), although he does have plenty of sex due to keeping four official mistresses around. He still doesn't produce any children though.
• Ruler Protagonist: He's king and the main protagonist.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Lancelot is the only one he doesn't consider a liability, fueling their enmity in the later seasons since Lancelot refuses to let himself be surrounded by idiots while Arthur rather try to work with them and find some use.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: He cheats on a regular basis on his wife Guenièvre, who doesn't see the problem and is even friend with his mistresses.
• Tragic Bromance: With Manilius with who he had been best friends since their youth in the roman army and who was his confidante and right-hand man during Book VI. After Manilius' death, which surely factored in his depression, Arthur never has a companion with who he's so close, not even Lancelot or Perceval.
• Trauma Conga Line: The end of Book VI is one to him. Upon returning to Rome to bring Aconia with him to Britain, he loses Aconia as her first husband returned and is taking her to Macedonia, then his best friend Manilius is murdered, with Manilius' last words being that they shouldn't have come back, worsening Arthur's feelings of guilt. And then to put one final nail in the coffin, he finds out that Caesar, his hero and mentor, has commited suicide. It's no wonder he falls into depression after that.
• The Unchosen One: In the Prequel of Book VI, everyone but Sallustius is skeptical about the whole "making a low-grade of the militia governor of Britain". Too bad for them (and for Sallustius) that "Arturus" proves to be too good at the job.
• Vetinari Job Security: His absence of since his abdication has been catastrophic for the Kingdom of Logres. Lancelot is an oppressive tyrant and fails at making the country prosper, and La Résistance can't do anything serious against Lancelot due to infighting and being made of morons who badly need Arthur's leadership.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Snakes aren't really a "recurring obstacle" in the show, but they're certainly a Running Gag.
• Young and in Charge: He was nineteen when he became king.

Father Blaise

Played By: Jean-Robert Lombard

The resident Christian priest, who records every reunion of the Round Table for posterity.

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• Beleaguered Assistant: In addition to being Kaamelott's priest and scribe, he's apparently also in charge of keeping the records, something he has yet to get around to doing.
• Berserk Button: Changing the story you're telling him in the middle of it. Considering he has to record it all with quills, it's understandable.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He chases Karadoc and his brother with a greatsword after they pissed on his church walls.
• The Comically Serious: He is just a scribe trying to embellish their stories and get unnerved a lot when he has to rewrite them. But don't you dare use a tritone.
• Face–Heel Turn: He is part of Lancelot's council in the first movie, and fully on board with the regime. (For what it's worth, Astier says on the DVD commentary that Blaise didn't willingly join up with evil so much as he would never, ever have left his archives — it's his life's work.)
• Serious Business: The tritone ("Diabolus in Musica") is a sore spot with him, making him faint. The only way he tolerates modern music is with a lot of cloth wrapped around his ears.
• The Smart Guy: In the comics, at least.
• Sinister Minister: In the movie, after his offscreen Face–Heel Turn.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: Turns up in the movie as a remorseless member of Lancelot's council with no explanation.
• Turn Undead: Played with in the comics.

Bohort of Gaunes

Played By: Nicolas Gabion

A knight of Gaunes (although the credits list him as its king).

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• Animal Motifs: Arthur's "Little Bear Cub" bedtime story refers to Bohort as a pheasant — beautiful, but pretty useless in a battle.
• Bad Liar: He's a terrible liar due to his honesty and sensivity. When he tries to cover up for Perceval and Karadoc, after they invited guards to play at the tavern, leaving Kaamelott unguarded and vulnerable to bandits, his nervosity makes Arthur immediately deduce that he's trying to cover up for someone and is easily able of making him confess their responsability.
• Berserk Button: Don't make him insult you. No, not even to "stimulate" him during training.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: He gets drunk pretty easily and gets very belligerent while intoxicated.
• Character Catchphrase: "We're all going to DIE!"
• The Confidant: Becomes to Lancelot for a time, due to them being cousins and to have confessed his Open Secret to Lancelot, with Lancelot admitting to him that he's in love with Genuièvre in return.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Getting him really angry (or drunk) seems to get results.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: He once took out Arthur in one punch.
• Explosive Breeder: He claims to have nince children, though they all live in Gaunes with their mother.
• Extreme Doormat: His pacifism is mostly because he is too scared of violence and will give everything to the enemy if it means not fighting them.
• Face Your Fears: Notably in Book V, where he faces his cousin Lancelot and tries to stop his assassination attempt on Arthur.
• Gentle Giant: Despite being one of the tallest and most physically imposing knight in the court, he's the most kindhearted and opposed to violence.
• Irony: Despite being believed and often mocked as homosexual due to his delicate personality and manners, and his wife being rarely seen, he has perhaps the most beautiful wife and the most healthy and happiest marriage in all the series.
• Happily Married: While they aren't seen together much, due to her staying in Gaunes and not handling travels well, he and Berlewen do seem to love and care strongly for each other, and he's attentive to her.
• Headbutting Heroes: With Léodagan, with Bohort often arguing against Léodagan's brutal and old-fashioned views and ideas and military spending, preferring diplomacy and to develop arts instead.
• The Heart: Advocates peaceful solution and is quite delicate.
• Large Ham: When he gets freaked out.
• Liquid Courage: Alcohol seems to do the trick getting him in the mood for slaughter.
• Lovable Coward: He folds like paper under threats (including the presence of animals fiercer than a pheasant) but he is a nice guy.
• Mistaken for Gay: Both by the fans and in-story, until an episode featuring his wife came out.
• My Greatest Failure: He feels guilty about him revealing Lancelot's feelings for her to Guenièvre, causing her departure for Lancelot's camp at the end of Book 3.
• Nervous Wreck: Becomes this nearly every time he think he may be in danger, much to Arthur's annoyance.
• Odd Friendship: With Gauvain and Yvain. They bond over shared appreciation of the finer things in life.
• Open Secret: On a couple of occasions, Bohort has heartrendingly confessed his deepest, darkest secret: he has had no training in warfare or martial skills. The audiences for this revelation (Lancelot in Book 2 and Arthur in Book 5) are... unsurprised.
• Rebel Leader: Forms La Résistance against Lancelot in the 10 year time-skip between the series finale and the movie.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: He grew up with a family, and especially his overprotective mother, that tended to him and protected him from being exposed to any semblance of danger. This is surely in great part why he's so gentle, and so opposed to danger and violence.
• Skewed Priorities: When Attila the Hun comes to Kaamelott, Bohort begs Arthur to give him what he wants, whenever it's all of Kaamelott's gold, half of the gold, the food or the women. However when Attila asks for the laundry Bohort suddenly grow a spine and urges Arthur to refuse.
• Token Good Teammate: He prefers diplomacy over war, which even Arthur doesn't. Although it borders on Extreme Doormat at times.
• Took a Level in Badass: Seems to happen every time he is with his brother Lionel.
• Undying Loyalty: To Arthur. Along with Perceval he's one of the few who never try to pull Excalibur off its rock and he ultimately faces his fear when he tries to stop Lancelot from trying to kill Arthur.
• You Shall Not Pass!: When facing Lancelot at the end of livre V. It doesn't work.

Calogrenant

Played By: Stéphane Margot

The King of Caledonia.

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• Improbable Hairstyle: In Livre VI. He's bald in the other seasons.
• Informed Flaw: Léodagan, Guenièvre, Lancelot, Séli and even Arthur all agree several times that he is a "complete moron" ("especially with his wife!"); yet, on screen, not only is he a very polite and tolerant guy (although he does have his wife locked up with a chastity belt when he's abroad), but he is one of the few Knights of the Round Table who's both competent and reliable. Even Perceval gets in on it in the comics: it turns out he thought Calogrenant being at the table was a measure of Arthur's progressive attitude: "Look at me, I'm modern, I'm even letting bums sit at the Table."
• Man in a Kilt: In La Jupe de Calogrenant (Calogrenant's Skirt), his lower armor gets wet and he has to improvise, inadvertently inventing the practice. Since the Round Table requires that its members attend it wearing full armor, the only alternative is to make the kilt "the official costume of Caledonia", much to his chagrin.
• The Quiet One: He is more or less an extra at times.
• The Reliable One: Lampshaded by Léodagan in the prequel. It wasn't meant as a compliment, though.
• Violent Glaswegian: Inverted, he's always phlegmatic (and, naturally, useless).

Dagonet

Played By: Antoine de Caunes

A lord of Logres and ally of King Loth.

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• Forgetful Jones: He doesn't even remember where the borders of his lands are. In Kaamelott: Premier Volet, he has to be reminded that the Isle of Thanet belongs to him.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Was drawn into the conspiracy pretty much solely because Loth pointed out Lancelot's camp was on Dagonet's land, Dagonet being entirely unaware of it. As far as he is concerned he can do with Arthur or without.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: The laughable lackey (incompetent but funny) to Loth's vile villain (constantly planning coups and betrayal with no morals whatsoever).

Galessin

Played By: Alexis Hénon

A duke of Orkney.

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• Beleaguered Assistant: To Loth, he remembers how awkward it felt holding the previous king of Orkney's feet while Loth was strangling his father. Although it is downplayed since despite his status he has remained loyal to Loth.
• Deadpan Snarker: Early in the series, mostly to mock Lancelot's pride and vanity.
• The Dragon: To Lancelot in Livre IV, and to Loth the rest of the time.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As stated above, he mentions that helping Loth kill the latter's father "isn't a very good memory". Giving that Loth murdered his father by stuffing a piece of cloth in his mouth and then setting it on fire, it's understandable.
• Evil Counterpart: He can be considered one to Calogrenant, both of them being the loyal reliable ones to their respective leader. But while Calogrenant is in service of the good King Arthur, Galessin is following the self-serving King Loth. This video goes into detail over this.
• Evil Virtues: Loyalty. 90 percent of his screentime is spent being belittled or insulted by Loth but Galessin is never shown even considering betraying him (although he does give a shot to pulling Excalibur out of the rock, implying a desire for emancipation). Also to his credit, despite his previous antagonism toward Lancelot, he tries to be as obedient and effective as possible and to make the cooperation between them work after Loth orders him to assist Lancelot, despite Lancelot's disdain and mistreatment of him as payback for Galessin's previous antagonism.
• Hypocrite: He called Lancelot a bootlicker in the early series for always showing respect to Arthur and trying to be noble; later he is shown to be as submissive to Loth, which Lancelot calls him out on.
• Jerkass: He is the other unpleasant knight with curly hair of the Round Table (first one being Léodagan)
• Just Following Orders: His defense after the failed putsch is that, as a noble of Orkney, he had to obey its king.
• No-Respect Guy: Despite being Loth's right-hand and his reliability, Loth doesn't respect at all and he's very often the victim of his verbal abuse or the scapegoat on which Loth lays the blame for his lateness or screw-ups. He isn't respected by Lancelot either during his time as Lancelot's lieutenant, though given how many times he antagonized and mocked Lancelot during their time together at the round table it's hardly surprising.
• Remember the New Guy?: While Galessin was present since the pilots, he was mostly an extra, speaking only in a couple of episodes over the first three seasons. From season IV onward, however, he becomes a major character as King Loth's second-in-command.
• Yes-Man: Calogrenant calls him Loth's personal bitch, he is his accomplice in many crimes and takes the verbal abuse head on.

Gauvain

Played By: Aurélien Portehaut

The son of King Loth and Anna of Tintagel. Anna is Arthur's maternal half-sister, which makes Gauvain Arthur's nephew.

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• Conflicting Loyalty: After Loth's coup in book IV, he has to pick a side between his father Loth or his uncle and role-model Arthur. He ends up Taking a Third Option and creating an autonomous clan with his best friend Yvain.
• Giver of Lame Names: Thought "The Gay Ramblers" would make a good name.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He and Yvain get along very well with Bohort who generally supports and share many centers of interests with them.
• Knight in Shining Armor: At least, he is the character who tries the most to be.
• Large Ham: Once Yvain marries Demetra.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Loth is a blasé, scheming asshole while Gauvain is an enthusiastic, nice idiot.
• Malaproper: With expressions.
  Gauvain: Nobility well put up, never follows his own winter. No... never finds the winter closed.
• Manchild: Yvain and him are the two sides of adolescence: Yvain is the jerkass teenager, while Gauvain is the nice, respectful kid.
• The Pollyanna: He is always happy, even when he realized he might be hanged for treason.
• Self-Applied Nickname: Hard to say which is worse : The "Knight of the Pancreas" or "The Gay Ramblers" ?

Hervé de Rinel

Played By: Tony Saba

A knight.

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• Cloudcuckoolander: He doesn't seem aware of what is happening around him; even the peasant admits he should stay in the castle because outside life is too hard for someone like him.
• The Ditz: Yes, he manages to be this AND a Cloudcuckoolander.
• Flanderization: Started out as guy-who-doesn't-talk-much-but-is-stupid-when-he-does; ended up as quite-talkative-guy-that-nobody-understand-when-he-talks.
• Informed Ability: Subverted and Played With; when he says during the show that he's a specialist in cartography and espionage, we get to see him in action both times. It fails hilariously.
• Too Dumb to Live: Discussed, the peasant warns Arthur that he should keep him in the castle because one day a commoner will kill him out of pity for how dumb he is.

Karadoc

Played By: Jean-Christophe Hembert

A knight of Gwent.

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• Berserk Button: You don't want to get between him and his food. Not ever.
• Big Eater: The real reason he is a knight apparently. He doesn't fight well but he knows his food.
• Celibate Hero: Though (reluctantly) willing to put his body on the line for the "usual filthy things" in order to have children, he readily admits he is not interested by that kind of flesh — be it male or female. The mere concept of "Roman kiss" (in-universe term for a French kiss) makes him want to puke.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Much like Perceval he has a more than a little strange way of thinking, that only Perceval can understand.
• Delusions of Eloquence: Unlike Perceval, he doesn't understand why his sentences make no sense when someone points it out.
• Extreme Omnivore:
  Karadoc: I didn't know what it was. So I ate it, just it case.
• Fat and Proud: "Fat is life."
• Fat Idiot: The fattest knight and as dumb as Perceval.
• Flanderization: Starts in the show as... Karadoc (seriously, just look at his tropes), and comes out in Livre V as a somehow dumber version of himself. His first act as King of Britain? Do the introductions at the Round Table. He's been working with those guys for five bloody seasons, for crying out loud.
• Gasshole
• Freudian Excuse: For his Big Eater ways: as shown in Livre VI, when he started adventuring, he was captured by Romans who tied him up to a tree and left him there to starve, before he was saved in extremis by Lancelot. Fat is life indeed.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Perceval. The two are almost inseparable and while Karadoc's most selfless and kindest moments are for Perceval's sake such as trying to learn rules of welsh games, even if he doesn't understand anything, stopping eating food after hearing about Perceval being dead, and renouncing the throne because Perceval doesn't see another king than Arthur.
• Hidden Depths: While it's motivated by his obsession for food, he knows the importance of dental hygiene and as such takes exceptional care of his teeth. He's also a great food critic and has some culinary skills himself, creating the Croque-Monsieur in one episode.
• Jerkass: Not obvious before, but truly goes up to eleven in Livre V.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his jerkassery in Livre V his friendship with Perceval is so strong that he publicly renounces to try to take Excalibur to please Perceval, gives back power to Arthur and does try to comfort and give food to Arthur after his suicide attempt.
• Malaproper: Messes up a lot of expressions, leading to many misunderstandings and comedic discussions.
• The Obi-Wannabe: Occasionally gives Perceval not-so-useful advice (Perceval's trademark "c'est pas faux", an elusive non-answer to hide his limited understanding of other people's vocabulary, was originally Karadoc's "secret weapon").
• Obsessed with Food: When he hears the grail might be the horn of plenty, he jumps at the adventure.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If he's not hungry it's that something very bad happened. This happened once when Kaamelott received word of Perceval being dead.
• Papa Wolf: Of the Boyfriend-Blocking Dad sort; he has his own high standards for his daughters and initially disapproves of Petrok's proposal for Mehben.
• The Pig-Pen: His wife has to fight to get him into a bath, and they sleep with enough snacks in his bed to satisfy his eating habits (including a live pig once).
• Serious Business: Food, unsurprisingly. One of the few times he's ready to kill someone is when Venec dares to ask for payment on a load of spoiled goat cheese.
• Small Name, Big Ego: While Perceval sometimes acknowledges his own stupidity and has some heartwarming moments, Karadoc, on the other hand, has absolutely no excuses for bragging the way he does.
• Those Two Guys: Also with Perceval.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife

Lancelot du Lac

Lancelot as a knight in the series.

As King Lancelot in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

Played By: Thomas Cousseau

Arthur's Prime Minister and the only competent knight.

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• Animal Motifs: He's a deer in Arthur's Little Bear Cub bedtime story, "because deers are all majestic like that".
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He is a competent knight but he is also quite full of himself. His Establishing Character Moment is claiming a mysterious knight doesn't exist because his exploits are bigger than his.
• Beard of Sorrow: He lets his hair and beard unkempt mid season, showing how tired he is of all the stupidity.
• Berserk Button: In "Premier Volet" being compared to Arthur, or being called Arthur even by mistake by the Burgundian King piss him off.
• Big Bad: Graduates to this as the tyrant ruling the kingdom of Logres in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.
• Celibate Hero: Keeps himself "pure" for his true love, leading to the other knights speculating that he's gay. Unfortunately, once that happens it turns out Guenièvre is also a virgin, making for a remarkably awkward first night together... and all the other nights after.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He becomes increasingly possessive toward Guenièvre during Book IV, even going to the point of tying her to their bed so she can't leave him.
• Dark Messiah:
  Méléagant: You are not the chosen one of those gods.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: One of the reasons of his fallout with Arthur and turn to villainy is that he didn't feel appreciated and respected enough by Arthur despite being in practice his right-hand man and the only competent knight. This need of being recognised and respected is exploited by Méléagant who use it to manipulate him by making Lancelot believe that he's the only one able to see and respect his true worth, making him dependent on Méléagant's approval.
• Enraged by Idiocy: Much like for Arthur the other knights' antics and stupidity clearly wear his patience down. Though he's much harsher that Arthur about it, having jailed other knights because of it and eventually deciding to leave Kaamelott and the Round Table in Book III.
• Face–Heel Turn: With Méléagant's help.
• Fallen Angel: From Arthur's greatest and only useful knight to a tyrant that wants to purge his former ally.
• Good Powers, Bad People: He remembers how to heal with magic, but only after he becomes a villain.
• I Work Alone: As he fancies himself a Knight Errant.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: As a king, his royal outfit is a cross between a gambeson and an armor with the general shape of an eagle (or a invokedfallen angel?), apparently made from dragon hide. It is very stiff and the high collar covers his mouth most of the time, but he doesn't seem to mind the impracticality (and ridiculousness) of it all.
• Jerkass Has a Point: The reasons of his discontent with Arthur and of him viewing the other knights as unworthy of the Grail quest aren't totally unfounded as the other knights are indeed incompetent and stupid and make no progress in finding the Grail (not that he does any better, mind you).
• Heroic Wannabe: While he maybe doesn't realize it, the fact that he tells Karadoc to talk about him and spread his name everywhere indicates that his brave actions aren't completely selfless and that he needs to be seen as a hero or savior by others.
• Knight Errant: Supposedly, since he doesn't have time for it anymore. He leaves Kaamelott for this reason at the beginning of Book III. Because of this he doesn't like to be reminded of Bohort being his cousin, thus contradicting this image and tells him not to say it to anybody else.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Tries to embody those virtues, but with no-one around to appreciate them...
• Knight Templar: Anyone who can't live to his standards are to be killed or cast aside.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Even he is intimidated by Horsa and avoid lashing out at him when the Saxon leader says that Arthur would have never agreed to cede a portion of Britain to him.
• Light Is Not Good: His wardrobe gets noticeably whiter the more evil he becomes.
• Magic Knight: At the end of Book V, he remembers how to use White Magic.
• Mirror Character: With Arthur. They're both fully aware of how much of an inept mess the Round Table is and both are Married to the Job (exemplified in "Face-à-Face", where he and Arthur recreates the infamous dinner scene in Heat). The main difference is that Arthur truly believes that the quest for the Grail should involve even mediocre people, not just the very best.
• Missed the Call: Méléagant likes to torment him by reminding him that he was initially supposed to be The Chosen One instead of Arthur.
• Mistaken for Gay: Due to his unspoken Single-Target Sexuality attitude towards Guenièvre, everyone wonders if he took a vow of chastity or is gay.
• Number Two: Share this role with Léodagan to Arthur, as he is one of the only knights competent enough to delegate. He doesn't take it well when Arthur tells him that it's not official, to not go against the belief that all knights are equals around the Round Table.
• Only Sane Man: A Deconstruction. Lancelot starts as the only knight who is neither stupid nor inactive, but he finally got fed up of being Surrounded by Idiots and become convinced that the quest for the Grail should be reserved to The Chosen One.
• Pet the Dog: Despite ambushing him with the order to kill him, he spares Lionnel of Gaunes once he recognizes him as his cousin. Later upon seeing Arthur bleeding in his bath, during his suicide attempt, he uses his powers to save Arthur's life instead of letting him die or kill him as he initially intended to do.
• Rival Turned Evil: In the first books, he is Arthur's most trusted friend, being the most competent at the round table and his equal. However, their friendly rivalry turns to betrayal when Lancelot decides to leave Kaamelott out of dissatisfaction with Arthur's leadership. Then, things get even worse after Lancelot meets Méléagant who trains him for a much darker path, to the point of becoming the main Big Bad of book VI and the movie trilogy after taking full power.
• Romance and Sexuality Separation: Lancelot's love for Guenièvre was such that he never showed interest in any other woman, romantically or even sexually. As a result, not only do most of his fellow knights think he's gay or taken a vow of chastity, but when he finally kidnaps Guenièvre neither of them knows what to do.
• Sanity Slippage: He becomes increasingly erratic, paranoid and ruthless starting from Book IV as a result of his loneliness, him being the only one to see Méléagant who doesn't truly reveal himself to him until the final episode of Book IV and later because of Méléagant's influence on him.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Despite him criticizing Arthur for letting himself being surrounded by idiots and incompetents, and his attempts to only surround himself with the elite, the truth is that he can't escape from it either. The people who join him in his camp after leaving Kaamelott aren't more intelligent or competent than the ones in Kaamelott, with his main support coming from King Loth for his own goals and his stupid knights, and "Premier Volet" his subordinates are King Loth again and remnants of Arthur's old court who aren't more helpful than they were before. He tries to stop this by hiring competent Saxon mercenaries, but they drain the kingdom resources looking for Arthur (at his insistence, and All for Nothing since Arthur was perfectly happy staying an anonymous slave) and aren't loyal to him.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: In the final episode of Book VI.
• Unexpected Virgin: Despite being a good-looking knight-in-shining-armour kind of man, he's still a virgin in his 30s. He doesn't like when it's pointed out though, thinking it would "hurt his authority" over his fellow soldiers.
• Villainous Rescue: Toward Arthur at the end of Book V.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believes that the Grail shouldn't be in the hands of a bunch of idiots.
• White Magic: Was taught it at an early age but forgot.
• You Need to Get Laid: Frequently told this by other people, especially when his Knight in Shining Armor behavior annoys them.

Léodagan

Played By: Lionnel Astier

King of Carmeliard and minister of warfare at Kaamelott. As husband to Séli, he is also Guinevere and Yvain's father.

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• Animal Motifs: Arthur refers to him as "another, bigger bear" in Karadoc's nephew bedtime story. It goes with his aggressive barbarian nature.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: King of Carmélide and killed a bear off-screen while taking a piss.
• Bad Liar: Because most of the time he's brutally honest. He simply chuckles and tries changing subject when confronted to his lies.
• Berserk Button: Anything related to Romans in Britain. The mere idea of building paved roads in Carmélide is enough to trigger him into threatening (verbally and physically) the whole rest of the Knights around the Table.
• Blood Knight: Not so surprising giving his father's teaching.
• The Big Guy: He's the more warrior-prone of the knights.
• The Comically Serious: What makes him the biggest, most deadpan snarker of the series. He keeps his straight, grumpy face nearly at all times.
• Brutal Honesty: He admits that he doesn't care at all about the peasants and won't hide his hostility toward anyone.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: It's something of a Running Gag that he keeps trying to outfit the kingdom with the latest in huge siege weapons, no matter how costly or impractical. When it's pointed out that having two dozen catapults is only useful if Kaamelott is actually besieging someone (as opposed to being used defensively), he says maybe it's time they get around to doing that.
• Commander Contrarian: It catches him off-guard when Arthur actually do something he wants and feel robbed a bit.
• Deadpan Snarker: The biggest in the series, which is no small feat. He frequently snarks at his colleagues' antics and stupidity, his own children and his wife about her terrible cooking skills and her pies in particular.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Related to Berserk Button above; learning that, between his 6th and 20th birthdays, Arthur was reared and trained in the Roman military makes him silently storm out of the room and rave off-screen; to put it in Séli's terms, they'd have arrange-married Guenièvre to anyone in order to retain control of Carmélide... except to a "Roman".
    Léodagan: [screaming off-screen] To think I've married my daughter to a Roman! I'm this close to burning the castle to the ground!!!
  • He's shocked and appalled by Grüdü's murders of servants, just for coming close to the king's room.
  • He's visibly uneasy about some of his wife's schemes to get a heir between Arthur and Guenièvre, such as making Arthur drink a fertility or love potion.
  • Léodagan's father decides to go from chopping heads to gouging eyes in response to crime rates and emigration rates. Léodagan is visibly disturbed by this.
  • Judging by his comments about Uther Pendragon, and much like even his father, he was disturbed by Uther's brutality and sadism, viewing him as a madman.
• Freudian Excuse: Considering that his father usually finds him too soft...
• Hanging Judge: Burning Judge, and likes to enforce the old laws of cutting hands off thieves.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: A lot of his humor come from how candid he is about burning and executing people.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite constantly butting heads with Bohort over their opposite methods and personalities, he does seem to have some respect for him and try to work together with him. He also came alongside him to Kaamelott during one night, to reassure him against his fear of animals at night and make sure Bohort came to a reunion in time.
  • Despite how much he bickers with his wife, he still seems to care for her to some degree and recognize her intelligence and competence, and the two often work together toward their goals. He's also surprisingly patient and tolerant toward Yvain, only losing his patience toward his son when he really does something incredibly stupid (even more than usual).
• Hypocritical Humor: He's perfectly willing to spend much of the kingdom resources and money on costly and impractical war machines, but is very reluctant to ever use money of his own pocket. He's also perfectly okay with the idea to fill the treasury with Venec's fake money coins, but knocks Venec out when he informs him and Arthur that he has already released tons of fake money coins in Carmeliard.
• Inconsistent Spelling: The English subtitles give his name as Léodagrance.
• Jerkass: Arthur thinks of him when a barkeeper says moody guy with curly hair.
• Never Learned to Read: Averted, but he claims he wouldn't wish it on anyone.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Except that he quarrels with his wife as much as he does with Arthur, often ending up siding with his son-in-law.
• Only in It for the Money: He and his wife are only interested in living in Kaamelott at the expenses of Arthur, while securing their political position as grandparents of the heir to the throne.
• Only Sane Man: To a lesser degree than Arthur and Lancelot, but his aversion for Roman things and obsession for siege weapons aside, he's one of the few knights of the Round Table who is level-headed and competent.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: He seems pretty fond of this tactic. It's also a custom in Carmélide to have his way with the defeated lord's daughter but he is never seen doing it.
• Slasher Smile: He normally never smiles, but when he does, Arthur is freaked out.
• Smug Snake: He thinks highly of himself and think he'll be a better ruler, until he is actually in charge.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: His solution to any given problem usually involves Siege Engines and/or fire.
• Token Evil Teammate: Was part of some assassination attempts on Arthur, suggest burning oppositions and his nickname is "The Bloodthirsty".
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Though it doesn't last long.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Shows some subtle hints of this with Arthur. In early episodes they were usually on the same side during debates.

Lionel of Gaunes

Played By: Étienne Fague

Bohort's brother.

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• Borrowed Catchphrase: Borrows Bohort's signature "Miscreant!", when he shoots Lancelot.
• Cowardly Lion: Like Bohort, once he is incensed enough he won't hesitate shooting to kill. Even Bohort who kept calling him a coward is frightened by how eager he was to shoot Lancelot.
• Dirty Coward: Even more so than Bohort, who calls him out on this in Book VI.
• If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Courtesy of Méléagan, he serves as the kitten for Lancelot, who can't bring himself to do it.

Perceval

Played By: Franck Pitiot

A Welsh knight (though he's not quite aware of it).

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• Ambiguously Human: Throughout the series, there are many hints that he might (unknowingly) not be human at all, but rather a supernatural being like the Lady of the Lake or Méléagant. He was found in a crop circle as a baby, shows spectacular skills in mathematics and astronomy but spectacular dumbassery in the most mundane tasks, and he is the only person so far besides Arthur for whom Excalibur glows — which all suggest extraterrestrial origin.
• Author Appeal: In-Universe. His stories always involve "mysterious old people", for some reason.
• The Chosen One: Maybe. Excalibur only shines for those who have a great destiny. When Arthur hands Excalibur to some of his knights, it stops shining, except for Perceval who makes it shine brighter than Arthur.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He tends to forget a lot of things—including his name—and has problems understanding even very mundane situations.
• Constantly Curious: Which angers a lot of people since it's really basic stuff he should already known that makes him curious.
• Doorstop Baby: Was found in a Crop Circle.
• Genius Ditz: He is utterly clueless about map-reading and cardinal points, can't go in a forest without getting lost, don't understand a thing about dates, repeatedly manages to mess up when giving his name, fails even the most basic logic... Yet he is a goddamn genius with numbers and mathematics (can do mental calculations lightning-fast, understands games with impossibly complicated rules, is apparently unbeatable at the shell game...). Actor Franck Pitiot has mentioned Perceval's "autistic side" ("cote autistic"), but doesn't play him as autistic so much as... at right angles from reality.
• Good with Numbers: He's good with quick math and counting.
• Global Ignorance: Accidentally became the mystery knight "Provençal le Gaulois" after screwing up his own name and origins. His mistake is more understandable in French, where “Wales” is “Pays de Galles” and demonyms Gaulois ("Gaul") and Gallois ("Welshman") differ only by a vowel. Getting confused on his own first name is less understandable.
• Dork Knight: He is a friendly person with noble intention but kind of too stupid and naive for his own good. Arthur however admits he kind of feels attached to him because of it.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Karadoc. The two are rarely seen without the other and do almost everything together.
• Irrational Hatred: Mevanwi is the only person to whom Perceval is downright mean to, even before he got to know her. Of course, he's proven right when she reveals much later how much of a Manipulative Bitch she is.
• Malaproper: He and Karadoc mistake many terms for another one, or use words without understanding the meaning of it. Even when he uses a complicated term in the right situation he still misunderstands it most of the time or used it by accident. This causes many quiproquos with Arthur, much to the king's frustration.
• Morality Pet: To Karadoc who decides to give up on trying to pull Excalibur from the stone, and to later gives back his kingship to Arthur to please him.
• Oblivious to Love: With Angharad. When they finally start dating, he still don't know how to avoid One Dialogue, Two Conversations.
• Those Two Guys: With Karadoc.
• Undying Loyalty: One of three people who didn't try to draw Excalibur from the stone alongside Bohort and the duke of Aquitania (the latter because he was vaguely aware he was in Britain for... some reason), and repeatedly calls out Karadoc for doing so.
• Unreliable Expositor: He embellishes his utterly lame reports of his and Karadoc's "adventures" with elements he thinks sound "mysterious". Like old people.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Somehow toward Arthur. The only reason he wants to find the Graal is because Arthur wants it. He doesn't even care about the fame or what the artifact means but he knows that it will make Arthur happy and proud of him.

Yvain

Played By: Simon Astier

Guenièvre's little brother.

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• Animal Motifs: Less obvious than other characters, but he is often associated with lions — most specifically, lion cubs.
  • His nickname, like in the original tale, is "the knight of the lion" (despite never having seen one IRL). (He chose the nickname because he thought it sounded cool.)
  • Like a lion cub, he's the son of a lion/Leo.
  • Like a baby predator, he is a "prince" with a lot of potential, but is simply too lazy and immature to reach it.
• Character Catchphrase: "I'm fed up with it!"
• Cloudcuckoolander: Not permanently, but has numerous and quite awesome moments.
  Arthur: You know Britain is an island, right?
  [...]
  Arthur: And when invaders want to raid the country, they come...
  Yvain: They come in the thousands?
  Arthur: ...Nope...
  Yvain: They come... from Britain!
• Combat Commentator
• Hypochondria
• Large Ham: Once he marries Demetra.
• Lazy Bum
• Manchild: He has the personality of an apathetic, whiny teenager, while his friend Gauvin is basically an obedient, overenthusiastic child.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: When he tries to argue with his parents in early seasons. Later his vocabulary shrinks to be smaller than Gauvain's (in fact, "vocabulary" is one of those words he doesn't know).
  Yvain: I consider that I don't have to be subjected to the careerist fantasies of a generational, reactionary and oppressive entity.
• Those Two Guys: With Gauvain.

Other Kaamelott Residents

Angharad

Played By: Vanessa Guedj

Guenièvre's handmaiden.

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• Covert Pervert: "Next time Milady wants to know if Arthur has children, ask me. May I remind you that my room is next to yours? I don't hear much action in there these days — and God knows I prick up my ears."
• Real Life Writes the Plot: She is no longer seen in the late seasons, apparently because her actress disagreed with Alexandre Astier on her characterization and quit.
• Servile Snarker: She doesn't hesitate to snark and talk back to Guenièvre, the knights or even Arthur himself and is quick to point out the absurdity of their actions.
• Ship Tease: With Perceval in the earlier seasons.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: Inverted, in the pilots her character was just as, if not stupider, than Perceval.

Grüdü

Played By: Thibault Roux

Arthur's Viking bodyguard.

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• Ax-Crazy: Polar bears didn't teach him restraint.
• Brutal Honesty: Has no qualms giving his opinions often in a brutal way, even telling Bohort that he'll kill him if he comes near the king's chamber again.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his brutish appearance and manners, he does show a softer and perceptive side as he recognises and show his genuine appreciation and respect for Arthur's qualities as a king. He also shows that he has he still has a childlike side upon seeing a puppet show.
• Horny Vikings
• Lawful Stupid: No-one can touch Arthur on his watch. Not even his mistresses. Not even the Queen. When guarding Kaamelott's front gate, he learns the back is undefended. However, he can't leave his post, and when the swordsmaster offers to go, threatens to kill him for desertion. While they're arguing, assassins slip by unnoticed.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: He systematically kills or attempt to kill anyone who comes close to the king's room, even if they're just passing by.
• Never Learned to Read: Due to his background he doesn't know how to read, or to count even with his fingers, nor knows geographic terms such as the name of the place he's in, nor about the Grail.
• Raised by Wolves: Raised by polar bears...
• Real Men Eat Meat: Throwing chunks of raw meat at him is the only way to break his murderous tendencies.
• Undying Loyalty: To Arthur, being extremely devoted to protect him, and having genuine appreciation and respect for him as a king.

Guenièvre

Played By: Anne Girouard

The Queen of Britain, Arthur's wife.

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• Animal Motifs: In the "Little Bear Cub" story, Arthur makes her character a trout, reflecting how out of place she is to the rest of his quest.
• Betty and Veronica: As the nice and inexperienced princess that Arthur married for political reasons only, she's the consistent Betty while every other love interest ( Aconia, the mistresses, Mevanwi) has been the Veronica.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Even before her Character Development she was more than capable of showing a strong temper or of beating an assasin when pushed too far or in a bad mood, much to Arthur's astonishement. In Livre V she knocks out king Loth and Anna to save Arthur.
• Character Development: In Livre I, she was notorious for her rather clueless attitude and lines ("Ah yes, today I had the rosebush in the backyard clipped, because he really needed it!" to Arthur, while he's reading some diplomatic treaty); in Livre V, she is the only one who really manage to make Arthur understand that he is doing wrong, even saving his life at one point.
• The Ditz: In the first seasons she was quite clueless and ingenue, much to Arthur's annoyance. She largely grows out of it with Character Development in the later seasons.
• The Dog Bites Back: She finally has it with Arthur's mistreatments after she catches him cheating on her with a married woman (the ultimate taboo) and he lets it slip that he doesn't care what will become of her if he decides to marry Mevanwi. She ditches him and elopes with Lancelot, who at least says that he loves her.
• Dumbass Has a Point -> Cloud Cuckoo Lander -> Smarter Than You Look: While she says a lot of stupid things, she will sometimes successfully make Arthur realize he's acting like a jerk, usually about their relationship.
• The Heart: Somehow, yes.
• The Ingenue: She's very kind-hearted, innocent and naïve, and is totally clueless about romance and the concept of sex. It isn’t really her fault—-she was raised a princess and her mother’s advice about the wedding night consisted entirely of “Démerdez-vous” (“figure it out”, but more vulgar)—-but she hasn’t pieced together anything either.
• In Love with Love: She's not as much in love with either Arthur or Lancelot (or even Kolaig) as she dreams of someone fighting for her and treating her with passion (her one criterion for her future husband is for him to have fair hair, like in her fantasies). Arthur finally understands this during Kaamelott: Premier Volet and gives her a show of true chivalric romance, climbing the tower she was held captive in to kiss her.
  Guenièvre: He who covets a wife must slay the husband. [...] It's a shame I wasn't married when we met. Ah, I wish he'd have fought over me. There would have been blood... How romantic!
• Miss Conception:
  • Type I. Apparently, she only has a vague idea how babies are made, and the fact that Arthur doesn't want to do anything with her sexually doesn't help.
    Guenièvre: I know I know nothing about that but... does the fact that you never touch me have any impact on fertility?
  • This becomes a problem again when she runs away with Lancelot: hilariously, both of them are virgins who barely know the concept of sex and expected the other to teach them. They are stuck there, and end up doing nothing. The problem still isn't solved ten years later in Kaamelott: Premier Volet, by which time Lancelot has a new concubine and hasn't done anything with her either.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Delivers a mild one to Arthur about his suicide attempt because the sight of his blood all over the place still gives her nightmares six months or a year later, and she feels guilty because she was the one who prepared the bath.

Mevanwi

Played By: Caroline Ferrus

Karadoc's wife. She eventually starts an affair with Arthur that triggers an ominous prophecy regarding the fate of the Round Table.

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• Ambition Is Evil: Yes, she would do anything for power, but her main goal is to escape her depressing life as a simple housewife to Karadoc, a knight she doesn't love and who doesn't treat her right. This is framed as inherently villainous, by triggering the prophecy and the show's descent from comedy to a more serious tone.
• Archnemesis Mom: How her daughters see her once they grow up - and they're open about it too.
  Mehben: How come no one's taken five minutes to ice this bitch yet?
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Guenièvre's Betty.
• Blue Blood: She hails from the high aristocracy of Gwent, with a pedigree admired even by Ygerne and Cryda, who have been known to sneer at kings.
• Doting Parent: In her first appearances, she's actually very family-minded and her interraction with her young children are quite cute. Even in the movie, as her daughters openly hate her, she goes out of her way to obtain an amnesty for them and their companions.
• Evil Sorceress: Learns some magic from Elias.
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Averted in regards to her husband, who is vaguely aware that sex is necessary to produce kids, but is much more interested in food.
• Manipulative Bitch
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Her and Karadoc.
• Uptown Girl: To Karadoc, who was a commoner before being knighted, while she was always noble.
• Woman Scorned: She doesn't take kindly to Arthur eventually divorcing her.
  Bohort: How can you be so cruel to someone you once loved?
  Mevanwi: Very easily.

Arthur's Mistresses

Played By: Caroline Pascal as Demetra, Anne-Valérie Soler as Aelis, Magali Saadoun as Aziliz, Alexandra Saadoun as Tumet, Emma de Caunes as Azénor, Caroline Victoria as Tegeirian...

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• All Women Are Lustful: Most of them have no problem being used for sex by Arthur. Aelis even uses it as her main selling point for why she' make a better queen than Guenièvre (despite having as little idea of what being queen entails).
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Aelis, who is sick of life on a farm and always being assaulted by the same sort of brutish warlords, threatens to rape Arthur at knifepoint if he doesn't go through with the ravishing.
• Always Identical Twins: Aziliz and Tumet. They also dress the same and do their hair the same. According to Arthur, Tumet is gentler, and Aziliz feistier.
• Bit Character: Only Démétra is actually a recurring character. Aelis, Tumet and Aziliz have a few episodes dedicated to them, but are still rather minor characters. Azénor disappeared after Livre I (justified, as she spent most of her screen time explaining that she was unhappy at court and took the time to discuss with Arthur whether she could leave if she wanted), and Anna was The Ghost, mentioned a couple of times but never appearing on screen (likely because the name was later used for Arthur's half-sister). Arthur also occasionally flirts with girls who are not made official mistresses, such as Madenn or Tegeirian.
• Ethical Slut:
  • All of them are on friendly terms with Guenièvre, and Démétra even tries to help her seduce Arthur to get the heir going. Subverted after Guenièvre leaves, at which point they all spit on her and actively vie for her position.
  • Arthur, in this case. He picks them up like a harem, but seems to actually like all of them and has tender moments with most of them. He makes it clear he respects their consent, and is perfectly fine with them having a life outside of him, and leaving court whenever they feel like it. Azénor is surprised to learn that there are only 6 or 7 official mistresses, when she expected Arthur to jump on everything that moves.
• Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Démétra is always wearing jewels, even when she's bathing. Justified in that we only see her bathing with Arthur, who in one episode points out that he likes his mistresses well-dressed, bejeweled and perfumed.
• Green-Eyed Monster: They don't really hide that they would gladly become queen given the chance.
• Hand Wave: Livre VI reveals that Arthur never consummated his marriage with Guinevere out of faithfulness to his first wife, Aconia. To justify the existence of the girls, the writers made sure to make her point out that she was fine with mistresses, as long as he didn't touch his wife.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Most of them are "the latin type", with their black hair and Mediterranean features. Both Arthur and Guenièvre are amused to point out that considering the local complexions, both Aelis and Demetra are more likely to be the daughters of "some little decurion posted in the area" than their fair-haired fathers. They do not take kindly to the implication.
• Meet Cute:
  • Aziliz and Tumet are the first people Arthur met when he returned to Britain after spending fifteen years in the Roman legion.
  • Averted with Aelis: Arthur met her after a battle, when a local tradition commanded him to go have his way with the defeated warlord's daughter. He hated the idea of forcing someone and being forced himself, but she had been eagerly waiting for this clean, well-spoken king, and even threatens to assault him. Since he was still attracted to her, he named her an official mistress so they could have Their First Time in a more comfortable context.
• The Mistress: All of them, to King Arthur. Démétra seems to be his favorite, though he's reluctant to let her know.
• Rags to Riches: Aelis alone is the daughter of a Carmeliard clan chief (which isn't that fancy to begin with) - all of the others are commoners, with Aziliz and Tumet being the daughters of a fisherman, Azenor having had to steal in order to eat her whole life, and Demetra not wanting to go back to sleeping in a barn.
• Riches to Rags: Arthur sends them all away after replanting the sword in the stone, and doesn't summon them back after failing to remove it again. Demetra marries Yvain, who visibly can't or doesn't bother to provide her with the same sort of lifestyle she enjoyed in Kaamelott.
• Sticky Fingers: Azenor, force of habit from growing up in misery.
• Twin Threesome Fantasy: Tumet and Aziliz. Arthur admits that there being two of them is what he finds interesting about them.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Arthur was a Ladykiller in Love with Tegeirian for a few episodes in Livre II, but she vanished with no resolution to that arc.

Séli

Played By: Joelle Sevilla

Queen of Carmeliard and steward of the castle of Kaamelott. She is Léodagan's wife, Guenièvre and Yvain's mother.

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• Brutal Honesty: Much like her husband she doesn't bother to hide her opinions and is very blunt into telling them.
• Deadpan Snarker: Possibly the sharpest tongue in a World of Snark.
• Eek, a Mouse!!: Averted: Seli is willing to stay up all night in the kitchen with a mallet to hunt down a single mouse.
• Everyone Has Standards: She's shocked when she learns that Léodagan sold young men who had pushed Yvain and Gauvain to write "Death to the king" on a wall, saying that even if they are young and stupid they don't deserve something too harsh. Also she refuses Léodagan's suggestion of demolishing a theatre, even if she finds it annoying.
• Global Ignorance: Does not know where Aquitania is, or Armorica, or Burdigala, despite all of them being part of the kingdom.
• Greed: "When someone offers you money, you take it. That's it, that's simple, that's the rule."
• Hates Everyone Equally: Claims to have spat on Emperor Justinian's feet, so anyone looking for respect from her is in for a hard time.
• Hypocrite: The scene in Livre V where she coldly calls Arthur out for repeatedly treating Merlin like dirt (which prompted him to run away); it would have been much more effective if the preceding seasons hadn't shown the audience not one, but two episodes fully revolving around the way she kept pushing said Merlin around for her own goals, even threatening to violently "bypass" hierarchy.
• I Want Grandkids: Less for sentimental reasons and more because it'll cement their position as Arthur's in-laws for good.
• Lethal Chef: Her attempts at making pies end in disaster and bleeding gums.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: And as abrasive to her husband as she is to her son-in-law. And to her sister-in-law (Fraganan) as well to some extent in Kaamelott: Premier Volet. Naturally, she gets along fine with Arthur's aunt, who despises him (it's very much mutual).
• Only in It for the Money
• You Can Keep Her!: A young Léodagan kidnapped Séli from her tribe, demanding 10,000 gold pieces for her. The Picts gave him twice that in exchange for his keeping her. Séli's main gripe with this is that she never saw any of those coins.

The Master-at-arms

Played By: Christian Bujeau

The master-at-arms at Kaamelott, and one of the rare competent people in Arthur's retinue, although not a knight himself.

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• Berserk Button: Do NOT taunt him about his father only having one leg.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
• Large Ham
• Master Swordsman: He's not a master-at-arms for nothing.
• The Teetotaler: In the episode "Corpore Sano", he says himself that his feeding is made of "Dried fruits, beans, lentils, and above all, lots of water; and of course no alcohol." It is also implied that he doesn't eat meat. It is also worth noting that, in "Corpore Sano II", he's going through a nervous breakdown that makes him want to abandon his philosophy.
• You Fight Like a Cow: His favorite way of fighting. According to him, it is necessary to motivate yourself to fight a friend.

The Witch Hunter

Played By: Élie Semoun

The Court's Inquisitor.

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• Berserk Button: Magic users, unbelievers and women.
• Burn the Witch!: His catchphrase.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
• Hypocrite: When he decides to become a "Paladin" ("Glooooooriiiiaaaaa!!!"), he demands that Arthur give him Excalibur, a magic sword bestowed upon mortals by pagan gods, to use it in his crusade against heretics.
• Jerkass: Really unpleasant and likes hearing people scream.
• Kick the Dog: Wants to kill Kadoc because "his brain was sucked out by the demon". Turns out Kadoc is better than him at swordsmanship, though.
• Kill It with Fire: His modus operandi.
• Knight Templar
• Shout-Out: His name was directly inspired by Warhammer Fantasy's version of the trope, even if he himself is considerably less badass than his namesake.
• Too Dumb to Live: Two occurrences:
  • Screaming at Arthur and demanding his execution at the stake in one of the pilot episodes, when the latter tricked him in exposing his hypocrisy — by pointing out that while he was adamantly harsh against "magic users" (even for dubious cases), he was overly respectful of Arthur and his magic sword.
  • And in Livre IV, when deciding to become a Paladin; he demands, in front of Arthur, the Master-at-arms (and Kadoc), that Arthur give him Excalibur, and attacks him when the latter refuses to do so.

Kay

Played By: Julien Dutel

A knight of the Round Table (though he's never seen at the table) and hornblower.

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• Loud of War: Whenever he blows his horn, everyone flinches.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. There's already another more prominent character named Caius (and in fact Caius doesn't want to share a name with a hornblower).
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: He's Arthur's stepbrother in lore, but here is just another knight.

Nobles and Relatives

Anna

Played By: Anouk Grinberg

The Queen of Orkney and Arthur's half-sister.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Appears to Arthur to ask that he intercede with the current regent (Léodagan, who plans to burn every prisoner alive to make room for the new ones) to save their lives. Subverted, as when he obviously refuses (her first words are to call him a bastard and the son of a murderer), she tries to kill him.
• The Baroness: She's a cold, obnoxious and dominating woman who treats other with aloofness and disdain, and is clearly the one who wears the pants in the marriage between her and Loth.
• Berserk Button: Calling Arthur her brother, as Loth found out the hard way.
• Brother–Sister Incest: At the end of Livre VI, she appears to Arthur to predict it. Arthur isn't especially thrilled.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to her half-brother Arthur's Abel.
• Decomposite Character: While most versions of the myth merge the two (for understandable reasons), here Anna/Morgause and Morgan Le Fay are two separate characters.
  • In this version, Anna is still Arthur's sister ( and possibly the mother of his future child), with an inclination for dark magic and a plot-relevant position as one of the antagonists of season 5 and 6.
  • Meanwhile, Morgan here is just a random fairy of death who appeared twice in the series, mostly as a joke. Her duty is to bring Arthur to Avalon, but she's not related to him.
• Insistent Terminology: Both Arthur and herself are very insistent that you call them half-siblings.
• Irrational Hatred: She hates Arthur with a passion and wants to kill him even without getting to know him, because Arthur is the son of Uther who killed her father, even if Arthur had no relation or anything to do with his father's actions.
• Lady Macbeth: Averted. Loth tries to present her as the instigator all of his schemes, but even if Anna is the scheming type who gives advice to her husband and wishes to see Arthur die and be replaced as king, it's clear to everyone in the audience and in the world of the show that he would still be a lying backstabbing traitor even if she wasn't part of his life.
• Jerkass: She's a very cold and unpleasant woman who treats everyone else, even her husband, with disdain, and wants revenge on Arthur even if he doesn't have anything to do with Uther's actions and her father's death.
• More Deadly Than the Male: She's much more intelligent and dangerous than her husband, who fears and bow to her, and nearly killed Arthur once.
• Really Gets Around: According to Loth; granted, he's not that reliable an expositor.
• Sins of Our Fathers: She hates Arthur because of Uther Pendragon murdering her father.
• The Unfavorite: Her own mother would go Mama Bear on her if she harmed Arthur.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Loth. Though she doesn't think much of her husband, who's clearly under her thumb.

Cryda of Tintagel

Played By: Claire Nadeau

Arthur's aunt.

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• Commonality Connection: She and Seli at first get along, upon realizing their common conservative views and criticism of Arthur as soft and weak. Though this bond doesn't last, as Seli turns on her after she criticizes Carmélide too.
• Evil Aunt: While not exactly evil she's a very cold, unloving and obnoxious aunt to Arthur, never showing affection or respect toward Arthur, constantly insulting and criticizing him and his rule, never showing appreciation for it, and constantly comparing him unfavorably to his father. Arthur, understandably, can't stand her and dreads her mere presence.
• Jerkass: A very unpleasant and obnoxious woman whose main activity is to complain, criticize and trash talk others, especially her nephew.
• Trash Talk: Can go on for hours trash-talking anyone who's in front of her, particularly Arthur, who she considers a bad king, a bad nephew and a bastard.

The Duke of Aquitania

Played By: Alain Chabat

The Duke of Aquitania and one of the most powerful men in the kingdom of Logres.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: By far the most affable character in the series. Also cheerfully talks about how he had his first wife killed by his guards when she became too sick to walk, as she tried to run for her life, and watched her agonize for six hours.
• Cool Crown: Wears a crown in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.
• A Friend in Need: In Kaamelott: Premier Volet, he buys Arthur's freedom twice the amount of his bounty (and that's half of the Duchy's treasury) in the hope of seeing him reclaim the throne of Kaamelott. Arthur is reluctant as hell, but points to the Duke for freeing him and trying.
• Lawful Pushover: Despite being in charge of one of the most powerful military force in Logres, the Duke cannot stand up to those who disrespect him, least of all his wife (at least until Premier Volet, in which he just ignores her anger at being insulted by Venec).
• Morality Pet: The only character Arthur is pleasant and respectful to, half because he's afraid of his military power, and half because they're too far apart for him to get on his nerves. He often calls him "dear duke".
• Nice Guy: He's always kind and polite, an extreme rarity for this series.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: For all his idiocy, he still insists on getting Arthur to meet the rest of the Resistance to reclaim the throne, and when that doesn't work, tricks him into doing so.
• Pacifist: He tries to resolve every conflict peacefully, sometimes at the cost of his own well-being.
• Racial Face Blindness: Mistakes an African beggar for King Baram VI of the Sassanids.

Goustan the Cruel

Played By: Philippe Nahon

Léodagan's father.

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• Abusive Parent: Although it seems par for the course in the Dung Ages, he seems to have viewed it as Tough Love.
  Goustan: Look at my son, Léodagan. My entire life I called him an asshole, and what do they call him? The Bloodthirsty.
• Big Eater: Averted, he thinks Britons eat too much. Apparently Cameliard goes through two cooks a week for making too much food.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even he found Uther Pendragon to be too cruel and violent, describing him as a madman. He also takes the Gods and their will very seriously.
• Evil Laugh: Every time the mockery is over.
• Evil Old Folks: His reign was so bad every peasant he didn't kill went to Arthur's kingdom.
• Hanging Judge: His punishment for just about anything is decapitation. He's later stated to have gone through some Pragmatic Villainy, meaning he now merely blinds criminals by ripping their eyes out.
• Real Men Love Jesus: Well, Real Men Love the Gods... he did not convert to Christianity, and during the prequel Book VI he's one of the few to take the whole Excalibur business seriously, arguing that you don't question the judgement of the Gods.
• Rules Lawyer: During Book VI, he personally accepted a peace treaty with the Romans in exchange for money... before immediately abdicating in favor of his son.

Kadoc

Played By: Brice Fournier

Karadoc's brother.

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• Character Catchphrase: "Elle est où la poulette? Elle est bien cachée?" (Where's the chicken? Is it well hidden?)
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Is a better swordsman than the Witch Hunter (admittedly, not much of feat). He's also very accurate when it comes to throwing rocks.
• The Ditz: Sleep deprivation made him mentally challenged.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: "Aunty brings me to the seaside, to drown me."
• Ice-Cream Koan
• The Insomniac: Supposedly the reason he's a moron is because he doesn't sleep. Arthur points out that with all the sleep Karadoc gets, the difference should be much bigger.

King Loth

Played By: François Rollin

The King of Orkney and Arthur's brother-in-law.

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• Big Bad Wannabe: A recurring antagonist with very high ambitions, but laughable as a threat compared to Lancelot or Méléagant.
• Brutal Honesty: Usually toward his lackeys, when his enemies found him in a position of weakness he usually goes into a pathetic rant to justify him.
• Card-Carrying Villain: A magnificent example, especially the episode where he starts being a major part of the main plot.
  Loth: Just between you and me; what do you think of King Arthur?
  Dagonet: [hesitates]
  Loth: You can talk with sincerity; long story short, you're at scums' home here: our ideas aren't very nice, and we're not afraid to say it; we instigate, we renegade, we let our fantasies run wild.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: And not shy about it. He tried to betray Léodagan when the latter was setting up a meeting between all clan leaders in the prequel of Book VI and he tries to betray Arthur in Book V. It's even shown in Book VI that he was planning to overthrow Arthur as soon as the latter became king.
  Loth: I have just one question: When are we betraying?
  [beat]
  Wait... do you mean, we're not planning any betrayal? Uh... that's new! I've never tried this before...
• Deadpan Snarker: He frequently snarks at others, whether they are his fellow nobles and chiefs, and even more at his subordinates.
• Demoted to Dragon: Tried to become king himself in the series, but ends up as one of Lancelot's minions in the film.
• Disproportionate Retribution: According to Arthur, he once had a knight's tongue and fingernails ripped out for spilling gravy on his shoes.
• Foil: Just like Lancelot is what Arthur would be if he had nothing but principles, Loth is what Arthur would be if he had none.
• Fool for Love: He tries to excuse his coup and traitorous behavior as this, saying that his love for Anna is so strong he'll cowardly follow her hatred of Arthur. He calls her a bitch in the same sentence.
• Freudian Excuse: Spoofed. Loth claims sarcastically that his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder comes from his fear to become attached to someone.
• Gratuitous Latin: He invokes this trope by constantly using random Latin quotes when talking to sound ominous and to make himself look smarter. However they're pure invention (most of the time), and his quotes are always followed by him taking the time to clarify that they don't mean anything.
• Groin Attack: His wife Anna poured boiling water on his crotch for having called Arthur her brother (rather than half-brother).
• Henpecked Husband: While he insults her behind her back, he is clearly afraid of his wife and becomes totally submissive toward Anna in her presence. He even had his crotch boiled by her for having called Arthur her brother.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: He complains about the fact that he never got the chance to try to pull Excalibur out of its rock, stating that it's his biggest regret. To which Léodagan snarkily remarks that it didn't teach him punctuality. Though knowing that Arthur is the Chosen One and Loth's personality, he certainly wouldn't have been successful at it.
• Mean Boss: Arthur mentions that he once cut a servant's fingers over trivial matter, however Arthur brings it up to show kings and lords aren't as lax as him. He also doesn't hide his disdain for his subordinates and constantly belittle them or blame them for his actions and failures.
• Motor Mouth: When called out on his betrayals by Léodagan in the prequel of Book VI and by Arthur in Book V, he starts going into a rant with heavy dose of Blatant Lies thrown in for good measure. It actually end up saving his life as Arthur becomes fed up with his endless talking and orders him to go away. He only shut up and become quiet in Anna's presence.
• Never My Fault: He never takes responsibility for his actions and plans' failures and always put the blame on his subordinates and their stupidity, even when they just did what he told them to do, or on his wife. Even when he comes to Kaamelott to pretend to repent for helping Lancelot, he claims to a Fool for Love and put the responsability on Anna.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Despite being an evil, proud and treacherous king, he's smart enough to realize that his attempted coup will fail, and doesn't hesitate to sacrifice his pride by going before Arthur and apologize (well, sort of) when he realizes that this is the only behavior that may prevent him from being executed (and it does).
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When fed up with his idiotic henchmen.
  Loth: [to Galessin] Because you live a shitty train of life, your eye sparkles every time a bird fart. So a message, announcing, the arrival of an idiot with good news, it's already a party for you. You probably did your hair for the occasion.
  
  Loth: [to Dagonet] You're always desperately where we expect you to be. For example: everyone in the kingdom think you're a moron, and when you open your mouth you just confirm the rumors, you have no sense of theatrics.
• Self-Made Orphan: He was once told by his father that if he somehow become king of Britain, Britain is no more. He ended up killing him with Galessin's help.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He has a significantly larger vocabulary than most of the other characters, and he won't be afraid of using lots of metaphors. Unfortunately, he doesn't know what the Latin quotes he uses mean.
• Shock and Awe: He has the power to project lightning from his fingertips. This is actually true to the Briton legends in which Loth is described as a magician king.
• Smug Snake: He believes that it's his destiny to be a great king and surrounded by the biggest lamoes he can find (Galessin and Dagonet), and he's nowhere near Lancelot or Méléagant's level of competence and dangerosity for Arthur.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Anna. Both of them are unpleasant and plot to kill Arthur.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Or rather "Well Done" Husband Guy, as despite insulting his wife behind her back and his total submission and fear of her in her presence, he constantly tries to win her approval and to content her, to no avail.

Uther Pendragon

Played By: n/a

Arthur's father and the previous King of Britain.

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• 0% Approval Rating: Unsurprisingly no-one mourned or remember him fondly due to his lawless brutality, archaism and tyranny. Even conservative and ruthless characters such as Ygerne, Goustan and Léodagan who relentlessly criticize Arthur as too soft and progressive don't have anything positive to say about him.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: For all of his flaws and violence, he seems to have been a great fighter since no-one dared to challenge him despite his tyranny and is told to have massacred many people by himself.
• Ax-Crazy: According to Léodagan, he stabbed servants in the eyes for the slightest mistake.
• The Caligula: From all accounts he was a very bloodthirsty, brutal, impulsive, close-minded and violent man who reigned with fear and violence and punished everyone for the smallest mistake or slight. It's telling that even Léodagan and Goustan, who are known for their ruthlessness, were disturbed by him and call him mad.
• The Dreaded: He ruled with force and fear, and everyone seems to have been afraid of his wrath, even Goustan and Léodagan.
• The Ghost: Literally. He is never seen, except if you discount the one time his spirit possessed Ygerne and talked in a very deep voice.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: If the Master-at-arms is to be believed, Uther once fell asleep in a barn and was shat on by a billygoat. Arthur does not like this being brought up.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Not so incorrect for his time but he didn't have a very high opinion of women, and they didn't have many rights under his rule such as being forbidden from siting at tables, with even Ygerne admitting that she appreciate having far more rights and freedom under Arthur's rule than under him.
• Posthumous Character: Dead way before the start of the series. From the look of things, nobody regrets him, not even Ygerne.
• Shadow Archetype: To Arthur. By all accounts, Uther was bloodthirsty, short-tempered and archaic. Even though many characters who knew him (like Ygerne or Léodagan) like to berate Arthur for being too progressive and compromising for their tastes and to claim that he doesn't stand the comparison, they occasionally admit that Arthur is probably an easier king to deal with.
• Would Hurt a Child : If Ygerne's hiding of Arthur, before sending him to Rome after he pulled Excalibur is any indication, he was totally willing to kill children and would have killed his own son for threatening his power.

Ygerne of Tintagel

Played By: Josée Drevon

Arthur and Anna's mother.

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• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: See Mama Bear below. She's also visibly distraught in Livre VI when she is watching over Arthur's death bed.
• Commander Contrarian
• The Ghost: Absent from the movie despite Book V establishing her obsession with Arthur's destiny.
• Ice Queen: Despite showing signs of caring for Arthur she acts generally very cold and unpleasant toward him, and frequently criticizes him for being too soft and progressive.
• I See Dead People: She's sometimes visited by the spirit of her dead husband.
• Mama Bear: Despite her aloofness toward Arthur, she went through impressive lengths to protect him from Uther's wrath, and warned Anna that she would face dire consequences if she goes against her half-brother.
• My Beloved Smother: Makes Arthur take his cold medicine despite no longer being a child. Arthur himself tends to flee her whenever possible.
• Parental Favoritism: As pointed out in the Mama Bear entry, while she's awful to both of her children, she makes very clear that Arthur will always have precedence over Anna; to the latter's face, no less.

Fraganan

Played By: Marie-Christine Orry

Léodagan's sister. She is introduced in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

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• Remember the New Guy?: Played with. Premier Volet introduces her, but everyone's surprised to learn she exists. It's because Léodagan believes it's none of other people's business to know if he has relatives or not (and he clearly doesn't care much for her in the first place). Guenièvre did mention an aunt in the series.
• Seer: She is (or claims to be) a hydromancian, reading prophecies and other things in water (more exactly, in her father-in-law's foot soak basin), which is subjected (among other things about her) to much snark by Léodagan. She does see Arthur's return shortly before he comes back, however.

Mehben & Mehgan

Played By: Ariane Astier (Mehben), Jeanne Astier (Mehgan)

Karadoc and Mevanwi's daughters. They appear occasionally in the series as young children and play an important part in the movie.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: Both are very young children during the series, and delighted to hug Uncle Arthur and watch puppet shows with him.
• Childhood Home Rediscovery: Only have fading memories of living in Kaamelott as children. They do not remember Arthur at all.
• Daddy's Girl: Both of them despise their mother and chose to stay in hiding with their father after Lancelot's takeover. They do acknowledge that he's kind of a moron, though.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: What Mummy hates here: Mehben does take some pride in pointing out to Mevanwi that her intended is a mere commoner.
• Nobility Marries Money: Mehben, who hails from the high aristocracy of Gwent, marries Petrok, the son of a wealthy crofter, at the end of the first movie.
• Precision F-Strike: At their mother's offer to turn their back on the resistance for freedom.
  Both at once: Fuck off.
• La Résistance: The have joined their father's resistance movement as of Kaamelott: Premier Volet. Their mother isn't pleased to find out about this, being Lancelot's mistress at the time.
• She Is All Grown Up: They've grown into pretty young women by the time of The Movie, Kaamelott: Premier Volet, and they have suitors, of course.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Mehben is the fancy, marriage-oriented Girly Girl to Mehgan's pants-wearing, battle-partaking Tomboy. That said, Mehben is more casual and blunt in her attitude, while Mehgan acts more ladylike.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They had two younger siblings in Livre II, who never appeared again afterwards.

Kingdom of Logres Smallfolk

Guethenoc & Roparzh

Roparzh (left) and Guethenoc (right)

Played By: Serge Papagalli & Gilles Graveleau

Two peasants who are constantly complaining and fighting.

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• Affluent Ascetic: For all their grossness and complaint about how much they have to work and the misery they live in, they seem to be amongst the largest landowners in Logres, and both Madenn (Guethenoc's daughter) and Petrok (Roparzh's son) claim that their respective fathers are rich as Cresus.
• Enemy Mine: They occasionally settle their differences long enough to lead peasant revolts. Neither the revolts nor the truces last long.
• Hypocrite: See Affluent Ascetic above; there's also the point at which Guethenoc screeches at Saxon mercenaries for causing the death of his poor dear wife... As his new wife who's a fraction of his age stands at his side.
• Malaproper: Roparzh has a unique way of mangling expressions.
  Roparzh: On the subject of what is it about?
  
  Roparzh: What is it that you're wanting to insinuiyate, sire?
  
  Roparzh: I'm gonna kill him, sire! I'm gonna beat his face so much he'll decease!
• Medieval Morons: Among other things, blame the government for hail.
• The Pig-Pen: One episode has the two take a bath (after changing the water three times, it was still black with a layer of grease). It also revealed Roparzh's shirt hasn't been washed since he was 15.
• Those Two Guys: Although Guethenoc is sometimes granted audience by Arthur without Roparzh, most of the times they appear as a comedic duo.
• Too Dumb to Live: While they never really endanger themselves, their never-ending feud repeatedly makes them take actions against each other with unbelievably disastrous potential consequences; said actions include, for instance, poisoning a fair number of each other's cows, sheeps and donkeys, or burning down half of the kingdom's forests.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: They hate each other, but on rare occasions they'll actually stand together to gripe about something or other to the king.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Emphasis on Vitriolic, and very little on Buds.
• We ARE Struggling Together: One episode sees Guethenoc ask Roparzh over so they can discuss their complaints to the king. Not even a minute goes by before he tells Roparzh to piss off.

The Innkeeper

Played By: Alain Chapuis

The owner of a local tavern frequently visited by Perceval and Karadoc.

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• The Bartender: The owner of the tavern where Perceval and Karadoc spend most of their time.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His real name is unknown as everyone calls him by his profession.
• Honest John: He tends to welcome illicit businesses or to sell foreign wines, which is illegal, in his tavern to increase his profits. He even got in prison one time for it.
• Not So Stoic: Even he has his limits, and eventually blows his stack at Perceval and Karadoc when their bar tab gets too high. By this point in the series, it's just another case of Shoo Out the Clowns.
• Odd Friendship: With Perceval and Karadoc. While he does uses them several times for his gain, he also genuinely likes them, and frequently plays games with them, even when he doesn't understand the rules of Perceval's welsh games.

Venec

Played By: Loïc Varraut

A polyvalent criminal.

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• Affably Evil: A genuinely friendly criminal.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He says several times that he refuses to kill or hurt physically someone with whom he made business in the past. But that won't stop him from robbing that someone, mind you.
• The Highwayman
• Honest John: Here is a sample list of all the things he has tried to sell: food, alcohol, stolen goods (including cheese), torture devices, logistics expertise for banquets, tips on places of interest, traditional dancers, spies, prostitutes, slaves (masquerading as a ''honeyselling booth''), counterfeit money, and pyramid-building. Oddly enough, some of them appear to be legitimate quality goods.
• Now, Let Me Carry You: Over the course of the series, Arthur is extremely lenient with him, letting him do his shady business with little to no consequences, leading in Livre VI to Venec returning the favor by risking his own life to help Arthur escape Lancelot's men, while literally carrying him to his boat.
• The Unapologetic: He doesn't seem much bothered by the unethical nature of his acts — one could even argue that he doesn't even understand that they are unethical.
• Undying Loyalty:
  • Played With. He's arguably the most selfish character in the show, is in here only for his own profit, going as far as organizing a burglary inside Kaamelott (and then trying to sell the loot back to Arthur). And yet, he says several times in the show that things are better when Arthur is king, and he is the one, in Livre VI, who helps Arthur to hide and flee to Rome when Lancelot and his army starts chasing knights around the kingdom.
  • In Kaamelott: Premier Volet, even though he ends up helping Bounty Hunter Alzagar to find Arthur, probably under threat for his life, he instantly joins Arthur in trying to get arrested by the Aquitanians by finding the right insult to get them all dragged before the Duke, who's a trustworthy ally of Arthur.

Kolaig

Played By: Sylvain Quimène

A man who wants to become a knight and goes on a quest for this, which includes killing Arthur and freeing Guenièvre from the tower Lancelot put her in. He is introduced in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

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• Complexity Addiction: At Guenièvre's tower, he has the bright idea to escalate the tower via the vine on the wall instead of using the stairs, despite Arthur already ridding them of the guards and destroying the door to Guenièvre's room (and using the stairs). He's slow, afraid of heights, and predictably plummets.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Thinks of himself as one.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: As part of his "quest", he believes he needs to kill Guenièvre's husband in order to woo her. This results in his jumping on Arthur out of nowhere and trying to strangle him, not knowing that Arthur wasn't interested in her anymore.
• Uncertain Doom: He falls and lands with a *THUD* upon trying to escalate Guenièvre's tower, and is not heard of again afterwards.

Supernaturals

Elias of Kelliwic'h

Played By: Bruno Fontaine

The great enchanter of the North.

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• Beard of Evil: Contrasting Merlin's Wizard Beard.
• Brutal Honesty: Done to Merlin in Livre V, to the point where the latter decides to quit.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He has absolutely no qualms against being recognized as an Evil Sorceror.
  Elias: I ain't called "the Treacherous" for nothing.
• Court Mage: In Livre V, though he mostly uses his position to make money. He's still with Carmélide by the movie.
• The Dreaded: In Livre I Merlin notes that he is known to throw cataclysms around.
• Evil Sorceror: Mostly amoral, he only cares about making money.
• Jerkass: He likes making fun of Merlin and views everyone with contempt.
• Jerkass Has a Point: His unrelenting criticism of Merlin regarding his ineptitude, incompetence, messiness, etc., is... pretty much spot-on.
• Only Sane Man: His greed and lack of scruples aside, he's one of the few really smart, competent and level-headed characters of the series and is the one who tells Arthur about the importance of the prophecy of the Answer (announcing the arrival of Méléagant following Arthur's affair with Mévanwi), and tells him how he should solve this problem.
• Rivals Team Up: When he's forced to work with Merlin, to his disappointment.
• Sociopathic Hero: "In life, you need to avoid working for someone, AND avoid making someone work for you; it's the key to success."
• Superpower Lottery: Even though he hasn't really got "one ungodly over-the-top superpower", the variety of magic he can use still makes him qualify for the trope in comparison to Merlin. During the series, he is indeed either seen or said to master: destructive spells (such as lightning, fireball, stone rain, disintegrate, and the notorious "Death Breath": "he blows on you, you DIE!"), teleporting, demonology, necromancy, shapeshifting (into another human being, at least), "beastmastery" ("Caller of the Caledonian Wolves"), enchantments, divination, alchemy... and maybe more.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: How he got his funding once, by taking Arthur's form and signing off on very expensive magical ingredients.

The Lady of the Lake

^{In Book V (SPOILERS AHEAD)}

Played By: Audrey Fleurot

Arthur's Spirit Advisor.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: She was Lancelot's nanny, until the gods realized that he was too vain to be The Chosen One and sent her to Arthur instead.
• Our Angels Are Different: Apparently the Celtic pantheon has them.
• Council of Angels: She's part of a Council of Ladies. Somewhere on Alpha Centauri.
• Fallen Angel: Banished by the Gods for her "spectacular failures" in actually helping Arthur and Lancelot on The Quest.
• Decomposite Character: She is a character distinct from Nimue, as she never interacts with Merlin. She is just a lake fairy, with No Name Given until Méléagant says it.
• Fish out of Water: After getting banished by the Gods, and getting a mortal body, she's completely out of her depth in the mortal world, not knowing how to dress or eat at first.
• Given Name Reveal: Vivian. Or at least, it's what Méléagant knows Lancelot will remember her as.
• Herald: She routinely sends Arthur and his knights on Dungeon Crawling. Needless to say, each time Hilarity Ensues and The Quest is either dropped completely or ends up an Epic Fail. Also the one who predicted that Perceval could well be The Chosen One.
• Hypocritical Humor: She's quick to yell at Arthur for still paying homage to Mars (rather than sticking to the One God) while having obvious pagan origins herself. And of course, her demanding results regarding the Grail when she keeps giving contradictory information (and even the gods don't know what it's supposed to be).
• Invisible to Normals: Usually, only Arthur can see her. Léodagan didn't believe she existed for a long time, while Perceval and Karadoc can't quite grasp the concept (Perceval thinks she's Arthur's cousin, and extremely shy).
• Never My Fault: Played for laughs, but she has a tendency of always blaming Arthur for the failures of the quests she sends him on, and of the lack of progress in the quest for the Grail even though she doesn't really help most of the time as Arthur pointed out to her.
• Oh, Crap!: On two occasions:
  • In Livre V, when Arthur plants Excalibur back in the Stone, while rejecting her call to his senses.
  • And, also in Livre V, in Lancelot's cave, when she understands who Méléagant is.
• Spirit Advisor: And not very good at it.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form:
  • On one occasion, she decided to reveal herself to other mortals, as she was quite miffed that some people didn't believe she existed. So she manifested herself before Arthur, Bohort, and Lancelot... in the guise of Bohort dressed as a Roman.
  • Another had her appear to everyone but Arthur, in her true form this time. For some reason Arthur was the one unable to grasp this concept.

Méléagant

Played By: Carlo Brandt

Lancelot's mysterious Evil Mentor.

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• Big Bad: Of Livre V, in which he corrupts Lancelot and drives Arthur to suicide.
• Black Cloak: He wears one, as an indication of his sinister nature.
• The Cameo: Appears briefly in the credits scene of Premier Volet, where he is crawling in the snow, eating it, as he described it to Lancelot in the series, showing that he has officially come back.
• The Corrupter: He turns Lancelot completely to the dark side, manipulating him into losing all of his remaining ideals and values, and convincing him to makes "tabula rasa" by taking over as a tyrant, hunting Arthur and all the knights and burning the Round Table.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a very dry and witty sense of humor.
• The Dreaded: See Red Baron; when he presents himself to the Lady of the Lake as "The Answer", she is downright terrified.
• Early-Bird Cameo: His prophecy is read in "The Answer", which is the midpoint of Book IV and he makes a very quick cameo with his back turned in the same episode, but he doesn't properly appear until the finale of Book IV and only starts influencing the plot in Book V.
• Evil Mentor: To Lancelot, who he turns into a tyrant.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Has a very deep voice to illustrate his sinister nature, courtesy of Carlo Brandt.
• Evil Wears Black: He is always wearing he long dark hooded robe.
• Humanoid Abomination: His dialogue clearly hints that he's unbelievably old, and anything but human. The Lady of the Lake is terrified just by being next to him.
• Insignificant Little Blue Planet:
  Méléagant: All of this is nothing. Absolutely nothing! Not long ago something went "boom". There, we're on a tiny crumb expelled by this boom, drifting and turning on itself, waiting for its end; near! On this crumb little organisms gesticulate; they're born, they live, they die. None of this has any consequence.
• Invisible to Normals: Like The Lady of the Lake, it's implied only the people he chooses to torment are able to see him.
• In the Hood: He almost always has his hood on his head; this serves to make him appear more menacing.
• Knight of Cerebus: The series was already starting to get a bit more serious by the time he shows up, but his appearance mark a strong turn toward the dramatic. And while his character is not entirely devoid of (black) comedy, he's never taken lightly unlike the rest of the cast.
• Manipulative Bastard: Towards both Arthur and Lancelot (and Caesar). And he's scarily efficient. As he says himself, he has no interest into deaths of people, rather in people scuttling themselves.
• Red Baron: Known as "The Answer" among the Magical Beings (the Fairies, at least).
• Satanic Archetype: He is a being implied to be of the same kind as the Lady of the Lake (herself an angel) and is a manipulative figure who approaches great people so he can corrupt them to either drive them to suicide (Arthur, Caesar), or fall to the dark side (Lancelot). He also makes a deal of some sort with Caesar: committing suicide in exchange for reliving his happiest day.
• The Scourge of God: Claims to be "the Answer" of the gods for the failures of Arthur.
• Shout-Out: A Machiavellian "evil god", wearing a long black mantle with a large hood, trying to "corrupt" Lancelot and Arthur (a.k.a. the most willing to do good) and to destroy Logres, the only kingdom trying to find the Grail? Hmm.

Merlin

Played By: Jacques Chambon

Kaamelott's Enchanter.

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• Age Insecurity: Merlin doesn't like to go around revealing his age, because it turns out he's Really 700 Years Old (to the point where he stood to receive his age in gold pieces from the queen and still didn't want to).
• The Alleged Expert: He's prompt to point out that he's a druid, not a mage, but his qualifications as a druid are lacking too. He cannot control his Animorphism (while implying at another time other druids can), his nature-based spells go awry just like any other magic he attempts, and he can't even read the Druidic language.
  Arthur: In the end, is he really a druid, or has he been pulling my leg for years?
• Butt-Monkey: While a lot of characters could fit, Merlin takes the cake by being the guy who takes the most slaps, kicks, punches or "headbashes-to-the-table" on-screen, mostly from Arthur and Elias. This, plus the various dirty tricks from Elias.
• Cannot Tell a Joke: The reason he doesn't want to go to the Assembly of the Raven (that, and there's no booze). His attempts cause Arthur to do a Spit Take before finally agreeing that he shouldn't go.
• Court Mage: A druid, but that's his function (despite his claims that none of his spells work with a roof over his head).
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: His departure during Book V is motivated mostly by the perceived lack of gratitude and respect Arthur shows to him.
• Half-Human Hybrid:
  Arthur: Is it true that you're the son of a demon and a virgin? [...] You've taken more from the virgin.
• Inept Mage: Possibly subverted; Merlin himself claims to be quite effective, but as a Druid. Of course he's useless in a royal court. Or Unreliable Expositor, really: every time he talks about his druidic powers, it is implied that he really is inept.
  • For instance: when, in Livre VI, in the streets of Rome, Arthur asks him if he could strike the place they're in with a lightning bolt (something Merlin explicitly said he could do, as it is a druid's specialty), Merlin replied that it would be a lot easier to do if there was a storm going on.
  • One episode has Arthur order Merlin and Elias to team up to make a simple healing potion. According to Elias, it involves marinating roots in fox bile (which Elias handled) and boiling sand and herbs (Merlin's job). Leaving them with roots marinating in fox bile, since Merlin apparently can't boil water without blowing something up.
  • He was shown to be able to heal wounds with magic up to regrowing arms; however, since druid sounds passé he insists on trying to use medicine instead.
  • In the movie, he also says his powers don't work underground. His one positive contribution is mapping out the Tunnel Network, letting him pop out in the castle dungeons.
• Involuntary Shapeshifter: Played with. He can control when he transforms, but not what he'll turn into (it depends on whatever spirit is celebrated that week).
• Lovable Coward: He tries to avoid Elias at the beginning, even admitting to Arthur that until now he had always arranged to never find himself against him.
• Magic Versus Science: He's really into this new "medicine" thing. Even though it's a lot less effective.
• The Medic: He's the one to whom Arthur and the knights go when there's someone injured. Interestingly it's the one thing he's consistently shown to be competent at as a druid, having for example saved Arthur's life from a mortal wound after a battle.
• Only Sane Man: Becomes this after joining Perceval and Karadoc's clan, being the only one with some level of intelligence and common sense, much to his annoyance.
• Really 700 Years Old: Which causes some friction with Arthur, since Guenièvre had thought up with an idea of giving everyone their age in gold pieces instead. Arthur replaces it with one piece per ten years, or his age in carts of dung.
• Serious Business: For all of his incompetence, he takes his druidic duty of healing and helping animals very seriously, once abandoning the others just ahead of a big battle so he could heal an injured female wolf, much to Arthur and Léodagan's consternation.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Elias, who he feels overshadowed by, with whom he constantly bickers.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: He talks to wolves due to his druidic powers. Note that this is actually the only power that he really is shown efficiently using.
• Wizard Beard: Not quite as impressive as the usual version, but he still has it.

Romans

Aconia Macrina

Played By: Valeria Cavalli

A Roman lady and Arthur's Love Interest in Book VI.

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• Badass Bookworm: Gives Arthur courses on Roman history, theatre and manners; keeps a dagger under her pillow.
• May–December Romance
• Secret Relationship : due to being already married she can't display her relationship with Arthur for the world to see.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: Her cheating on her husband, while understandable after having not seen him for 15 years, is still an act of adultery for which she is never condemned.

Caesar Imperator

Played By: Pierre Mondy

A Roman emperor.

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• Cool Old Guy: Despite his old age and eccentricity, he's also a wise man, who teaches lots of precious lessons to Arthur and was once a great and respected leader in his youth.
• Deal with the Devil: Reliving his favorite day in exchange for his suicide, as part of a deal with Méléagant.
• Eccentric Mentor: He's usually spoiled and even childish and has no real power, but he ultimately teaches Arthur that the best leaders "only fight for the dignity of the weak", a philosophy that Arthur take to heart, even if it leads him to great frustration.
• Lonely at the Top: Until his meeting with Arthur he had no friends or person to have a meaningful conversation and relation with.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He keeps the appearance of an old and senile man to Sallustius, to keep the façade that he's just a pawn to him.
• Ring of Power: His Ring of Blades Control (allowing him to deviate any weapon aimed at him), that he gives to Arthur.
• Spanner in the Works: His meetings with Arthur behind Sallustius' back, and the lessons he gives to Arthur help him become the cunning and great leader he would become, eventually outsmarting Sallustius and foiling his plan to take over Britain.

Caius Camillus

Played By: Bruno Salomone

One of the last roman centurions in Britain and an old friend of Arthur.

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• Because You Were Nice to Me: He confided to Arthur and Léodagan he had the order to scorch the earth once the Emperor died but since they invite him for dinner every once in a while he won't do it.
• City Mouse: Being a Roman stuck in Brittany. Even once he accepts a title of lordship, he still has a miserable time having to rule Briton peasants.
• Cultural Posturing: He insists on defending the roman culture in front of Arthur and Léodagan.
• Everyone Went to School Together: Arthur knew him back when he himself was only a lowly member of the Roman Urban Militia.
• Pride: The source of his comical aspect in the first four seasons; he just cannot accept the fall of the Roman Empire, and will be an example of several Pride tropes at one point or another (Moral Myopia, Don't You Dare Pity Me!, Kneel Before Zod)
• Undying Loyalty: Inverted. The simple sight of a whip is enough for him to rat Arthur out in Book VI.
• This Is My Name on Foreign: When negotiating his becoming a Briton feudal lord, gets told that his name would become Kay, same as Kaamelott's hornblower. He doesn't like it.

Titus Glaucia

Glaucia (right) with his right hand man Procyon (left)

Played By: Jean-Marc Avocat

Head of the Urban Militia.

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• Bad Boss
• Beware the Silly Ones: He ultimately is responsible for the death of Appius Manilius, purely as petty revenge.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty
• Green-Eyed Monster
• Jerkass
• Large Ham: Ooh boy.

Appius Manilius

Played By: Emmanuel Meirieu

"Arturus"'s best friend in Book VI.

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• Death by Origin Story: the fact that he appears besides Arthur in Livre VI but not in the later parts of the story is in itself a pretty good clue of his incoming demise.
• The Lancer
• Manchild: While he is shown to have many good sides (deeply in love with his girlfriend, the closest thing Arthur has to a loyal friend in the whole saga, etc.), he seems unable to deal with a difficult situation without being an immature brat.
• Sacrificial Lion: His death at Glaucia's hands will play a great part in Arthur's depression, and deprive him of a friend and confidante to help him rule Britain.
• Tragic Bromance: With Arthur, with his death playing a good part in Arthur's depression, and no doubt causing a lot of guilt to him for having taken them back to Rome so soon.

Lucius Sillius Sallustius

Played By: Patrick Chesnais

An influent senator.

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• The Chessmaster: Is the mastermind leading Rome politics from behind the scenes, manipulating the other senators and even Caesar is a puppet to him, and masterminding a plan to fully conquer Britain for Rome.
• Deadpan Snarker: Frequently snarks at his fellow senators' expense for their stupidity.
• Failed Dramatic Exit: Mostly inverted in his case, much to the amazement of his fellow senators who can't help lampshading it:
  [after Sallustius has left the sudatorium, not without extorting from them yet another signature, complete with a Reason You Suck speech]
  Marcus Oranius Lurco: You have to hand it to him, he's good at dramatic exits. I mean, every time, it's always so...
  Publius Desticius: He's got this strength...
  Vibius Pisentius Petrus: It's from within.
  Mamercus Flaccus Calvo: Especially in the...
  Lurco: Then he comes back and he's all...
• Graceful Loser: He takes Arthur's outsmarting of him and liberation of Britain from Romans pretty well, even congratulating him for his cunning.
• The Heavy: Of Book VI, being the main antagonist of the volume and his scheme to conquer Britain for Rome by using the king's sword legend is what sets Arthur's return to Britain and the story of Kaamelott as a whole into motion.
• The Man Behind the Man: To Caesar. Caesar might be emperor, but Sallustius is the one who truly rules Rome from behind the scenes.
• Out-Gambitted: By Arthur. Specifically, he intended to plant Arthur as a Roman puppet to gain the loyalty of the warring Britton tribes. The plan fell apart when Arthur (who in the meantime had gained new understanding about his true heritage) made clear that he was in the ideal political position to force the Roman army to leave.

Manius Macrinus Firmus

Played By: Tchéky Karyo

The Dux Bellorum in charge in Britain before Arthur's arrival.

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• Authority in Name Only: He acknowledges that the Roman Empire doesn't control Britannia in the least.
• Beleaguered Boss: He seems utterly drained by his charge and the antics of his henchman Spurius Cordius Frontinius.
• Call to Agriculture: Upon his return from Britain after he passed the role of Dux Bellorum on Arthur, he fully intents to go back to his native Macedonia and take care of his olive trees.
• The Chains of Commanding: His role of Dux Bellorum in Britain weights heavily on him, to the point where he enters a depressive state.

Publius Servius Capito

Played By: François Levantal

Sallustius' Number Two.

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• Deadpan Snarker

Verinus

Played By: Manu Payet

A lemon seller.

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• Interrogated for Nothing: By Glaucia and Procyon, much to his dismay.
• The Stool Pigeon: According to his own words, he has "ten years of snitching behind him".
• Torture Always Works: Played With. To be fair, he would rat anyone before even seeing the whip.
• Undying Loyalty: Inverted; is very open about the fact that he would rat anyone out under the threat of the whip.

Other Foreigners

The Burgundian King

Played By: Guillaume Briat

The king of the Burgunds.

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• Ascended Extra: Has an essential role in the movie thanks to supplying the siege engines needed to attack Kaamelott.
• The Ditz: He's obviously not very bright, with his attempts to learn Arthur's language being clumsy at best, and being easily fooled and exploited by Arthur.
• Gasshole: Farts just about every sentence.
• Malaproper: Completely mangles the britton language, leading to his more out-there lines.
  The flower in a bouquet withers... and is never reborn!
  ARTOUR! No change plates for the cheese!
  ARTOUR! War is a salsify!
  ARTOUR! The chicken is spectacular!
• Suddenly Shouting: As stereotypes of "dumb" Germanic tribes invading England, he and Attila tend to do this.
• Took a Level in Badass: His army in Kaamelott: Premier Volet cannot conduct a siege properly due to how moronic they are, not being able to maneuver their Siege Engines without running into each other. Arthur, who needs his forces to besiege Kaamelott and oust Lancelot, finds out the Burgundians have good musicians, and gets the idea to use music to coordinate the Burgundian army. The result? They manage to inflict much destruction on Kaamelott.

Attila the Hun

Attila (left) and his bodyguard (right)

Played By: Lan Truong

The king of the Huns.

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• The Dreaded: Mostly averted. Bohort and the Burgundian King greatly fear him, but Arthur and Léodagan aren't afraid of him at all and easily stand up to him.
• Historical Domain Character: With lots of Hollywood History thrown in, of course, because the historical Attila was dead a dozen years before the stated period of the series, and he's not known to have ever tried incursions in Britannia.
• Hordes from the East: Averted, he shows up with a single bodyguard.
• The Napoleon: He's quite short, and have a huge temper to match.
• Paper Tiger: Despite his fearsome reputation and screams he isn't actually really threatening, with Arthur casually standing up to him and causing him to reduce his terms
• Suddenly Shouting: As stereotypes of "dumb" Germanic tribes invading England, he and the Burgundian King tend to do this.

Horsa

Played By: Sting

The leader of the Saxon mercenaries who are employed by King Lancelot. He is introduced in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

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• Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards: He's not from Logres and leads a bunch of mercenaries to serve as a private army / Praetorian Guard to Lancelot.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Horsa has no delusions about being a hero or a savior, and doesn't even pretend to be.
  The Jurisconsult: You're not a good guy...
  Horsa: There are no good guys in this room.
• Cool Old Guy: He's got charisma in spades, he's played by a 69-year-old Sting, and he's pretty much the Only Sane Man at Lancelot's court.
• The Dreaded: Lancelot's advisors and Lancelot himself are visibly intimidated by him and don't try denying him what he wants.
• Historical Domain Character: Or at least semi-legendary; Horsa was one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains that seized the Isle of Thanet from the Britons in the 7^th century (the isle Lancelot offers him as payment in the film).
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: To Lancelot, being easily far more competent than the members of Lancelot's council and knights of the Round Table, and the one to keep Lancelot in power.
• Only in It for the Money: He sides with Lancelot solely to get money and lands, as any business-savvy mercenary leader would do. Though he takes interest in Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail after the defeat of Lancelot, which isn't quite a money-related treasure.
  Horsa: What good is there to serve Kaamelott if we can't benefit from it?
• Only Sane Man: Of all the foreign invaders to come to Logres, he and his fellow Saxons are by far the most intelligent, level-headed and competent, being the only ones to be litterate, cultured and not morons incapable of doing a single task.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Sting's French is not very polished. Fortunately, Germanic tribes have been established in the series to have pronounced accents compared to the Britons and Romans.
• Pelts of the Barbarian: He and his men dress in white furs.
• Sixth Ranger: He joins the Knights of the Round Table at the end of Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

Wulfstan

Played By: Jehnny Beth

A Saxon mercenary commander under the orders of Horsa. She is introduced in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

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• Affably Evil: Despite overtaxing and oppressing the peasants on Lancelot's orders, she remains polite to them and even gives condolences to Guethenoc for the loss of his wife.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: By Kaamelott/Logres standards (where pretty much everyone is an incompetent moron), she's very competent by simple virtue of managing to catch a number of resistants with her men (not that they're particularly difficult to catch, anyway) in service of Lancelot.
• Improbable Hairstyle: She has a punk hairstyle, in an Arthurian medieval fantasy story.
• Number Two: To Horsa.
• Only in It for the Money: She laughs at Lancelot's ministers when they bring up the "prestige" of serving the Quest for the Holy Grail (the kingdom of Logres is broke by this point due to... paying mercenaries to hunt for Arthur).

Alzagar

Played By: Guillaume Gallienne

A bounty hunter who's looking for Arthur Pendragon on the coasts of the Red Sea. He is introduced in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

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• Affably Evil: He kills a guy with a crossbow during his Boarding Party, then politely talks to the boarded boat's crew in order to find what they hide.
• Blatant Lies: Quarto doesn't buy it when he pretends that the slave he's looking for (Arthur) is "just a hobo", pointing out that one does not make a nonstop 17 days boat trip just to find a "hobo".
• Bounty Hunter: He's one by trade, and he's very competent at it. The very heavy bounty Lancelot put on Arthur's head is one hell of a motivation too.
• Only in It for the Money: After the Duke of Aquitania offers him twice the amount he captured Arthur for, he's not heard of again.

Quarto

Played By: Clovis Cornillac

A slave merchant on the coasts of the Red Sea. He is introduced in Kaamelott: Premier Volet.

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• Bounty Hunter: He's not one per trade, but upon hearing about the amount of the bounty to bring Arthur to Lancelot, he sets out on a long trip with his men to find Arthur.
• Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards: He has two Visigoth henchmen/bodyguards.
• Slave Market: He sold Arthur to another guy about 8-9 years before the film's story starts.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Upon finding Arthur, the latter gets rid of him by slipping a scorpion in his robes.

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