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* FoolishYoungerSibling:

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* FoolishYoungerSibling:FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling:
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* ActionGirl: If Guen specializes in sword skills and fights in battles.

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* ActionGirl: If Guen specializes in sword skills and fights participates in battles.



* SympatheticAdulterer: Guen can enter into an extramarital relationship (with Lancelot and/or Morgana). This is treated sympathetically because she never had a choice about her {{arranged marriage}} with a man she'd never met before. Unusually for this trope, Arthur isn't portrayed negatively over this -- he tries his best to be a good husband to Guen, with no hints of controlling or abusive behaviour.

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* SympatheticAdulterer: Guen can enter into an extramarital relationship (with Lancelot and/or Morgana). This is treated sympathetically because she never had didn't have a choice about her {{arranged marriage}} with a man she'd never met before.marriage}}. Unusually for this trope, Arthur isn't portrayed negatively over this -- he tries his best to be a good husband to Guen, with no hints of controlling or abusive behaviour.

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* ActionGirl: If specced in sword skills.

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* ActionGirl: If specced Guen specializes in sword skills.skills and fights in battles.




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* PrincessClassic: Guen can be played this way if you focus on making her kind and spec her in noncombat skills.
* RebelliousPrincess: Guen, if angry with her situation.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: If Guen takes an active role in ruling.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: A happily married Guen will often remark on Arthur's good-hearted nature and how it makes her happier to be his wife.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Guen can enter into an extramarital relationship (with Lancelot and/or Morgana). This is treated sympathetically because she never had a choice about her {{arranged marriage}} with a man she'd never met before. Unusually for this trope, Arthur isn't portrayed negatively over this -- he tries his best to be a good husband to Guen, with no hints of controlling or abusive behaviour.





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\n* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Arthur takes a direct role in running the country and [[FrontlineGeneral the army]].
* WideEyedIdealist: Arthur, to the occasional frustration of Lancelot, Morgana, and potentially Guen.





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\n* SympatheticAdulterer: Can engage in an extramarital affair with Guen, and doesn't feel guilty as she had no choice in her arranged marriage and doesn't love her husband.





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* PapaWolf: Despite potentially forcing Guen into a marriage she doesn't want, Leodegrance has aspects of this; after the assassination attempt at her wedding, he immediately runs up and wants to kill whoever's responsible and threatens to take her back to Cornwall if he's not assured she'll be kept safe by the army.




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*Action Girl: As female knights and Guen's bodyguards.



A Frankish noble.

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A Frankish noble.noble and ruthless schemer.

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* ActionGirl: If specced in sword skills.
* AdaptationalBadass: Guenevere, potentially. In the original source material, she usually isn't represented as a powerful swordswoman or sorceress, but can be played as either or both in the game.



* DaddysGirl: A dutiful Guen, especially one who learned politics from her father, has aspects of this.
* GirlyBruiser: Guen can be played as an expert swordswoman while still enthusing about fashion at every opportunity.



* ManipulativeBitch: Can be played this way if the player chooses.

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* ManipulativeBitch: Can be played this way if the player chooses.LadyofBlackMagic: If Guen specializes in dark magic.
* LadyOfWar: If Guen specializes in sword and/or leadership.
* ManipulativeBitch: Can be played this way by manipulating and deceiving Arthur, Lancelot, and Morgana. Guen can be calculating and manipulative, sabotaging relationships or building up trust and affection with the intention of exploiting it for her own gain.



* AllLovingHero: Arthur is persistently kind, patient, and determined to see the best in absolutely everyone.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Even if Guen makes no secret of disliking him, it's stated that he still tries to make her happy.
* TheGoodKing: Arthur is exceptionally benevolent, though if pushed he'll show GoodIsNotSoft.



* The Idealist: Idealistic to the point of naivete.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Even if Guen overtly dislikes him, it's explicitly stated he still tries to make her happy.

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* The Idealist: Idealistic to FrontlineGeneral: Arthur commands the point army directly from the field.
* HeroicBastard: Arthur is the illegitimate son
of naivete.Uther Pendragon, and one of the [[NiceGuy nicest people in the setting]].
* DoggedNiceGuy: Even if Guen overtly dislikes TheIdealist: Arthur determinedly believes the best of everyone around him and is willing to give second chances, even to people who've tried to kill him, it's explicitly stated he still tries to make her happy.
believing that they can always reform if given the chance.




* TheAce:

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* TheAce: Lancelot is an acclaimed [[KnightInShiningArmour knight]], [[TheStrategist commander]], and [[TheCharmer charmer]]. He's already renowned by the beginning of Book I, which is only built upon by his off-screen exploits between Books I and II.



* TheCharmer:

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* BigBrotherMentor: Lancelot's friendship with Arthur has this dynamic; Arthur clearly confides in and admires Lance, and Lance provides advice and looks out for him.
* TheCharmer: Is mentioned to have a way with women and been a shameless flirt before meeting Guenevere.



* FrontlineGeneral: Lancelot commands the cavalry directly from the field.
* LadykillerInLove: Lance is stated to have been quite the ladies' man before he [[LoveAtFirstSight met Guen]].
* TheLancer: To King Arthur, unsurprisingly. He's Arthur's closest friend and ally, but sees it as his job [[ShootTheDog to do things Arthur won't]], and isn't above [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught keeping secrets from him]].



* TheCynic: Morgana, who's occasionally driven to frustration over Arthur's [[TheIdealist overly-forgiving ways]].
* KnightInSourArmor: Morgana is openly cynical, but still supports her idealistic brother.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Morgana is a sarcastic, composed, and attractive user of dark magic.



* LadyOfBlackMagic:

!! Mordred

!! Elaine

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* LadyOfBlackMagic:

!! Mordred

!! Elaine




Guenevere's father and the King of Cornwall.

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Guenevere's father and the King of Cornwall.Cornwall.

!! Sir Bretta and Sir Maris
Guenevere's bodyguards.

!! Sir Meligaunt
A disgraced noble who fled to the island of Michaelsmount after attempting to kill a 13-year-old Arthur and is rumored to practice dark magic.

!! Duchess Tilda
A Frankish noble and close relation of Queen Radagund.

!! Count Grimald
A Frankish noble.

!! Queen Radagund
The Queen of Frankmarch.


!! Mordred

!! Elaine

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* LoveMartyr: His (possibly unrequited) attraction to Guen and guilt over Arthur causes him a fair share of misery.

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* LoveMartyr: His (possibly unrequited) attraction to Guen and guilt over betraying Arthur causes him a fair share of misery.



* LadyOfBlackMagic:

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* LadyOfBlackMagic:LadyOfBlackMagic:

!! Mordred

!! Elaine

!! King Leodegrance
Guenevere's father and the King of Cornwall.

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* DoggedNiceGuy: Even if Guen overtly dislikes him, it's explicitly stated he still tries to make her happy.



* TheCasanova:

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* TheCasanova: Has a reputation for flirting with every noble lady at court.



Arthur's half-sister and a powerful dark magic user.
* ResponsibleOlderSibling:

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Arthur's half-sister and a powerful dark magic user. She's married to King Lot and with him has two sons, Gawain and Gareth.
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* LadyOfBlackMagic:
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!! Guenevere
* AffectionateNickname: Arthur nicknames her "Guen".
* TheHighQueen:
* ManipulativeBitch: Can be played this way if the player chooses.

!! King Arthur
*FoolishYoungerSibling:
*The Idealist: Idealistic to the point of naivete.

!! Sir Lancelot
King Arthur's best friend and right-hand man.
* TheAce:
* AffectionateNickname: Known as "Lance" to his friends.
* TheCharmer:
* TheCasanova:
* LoveMartyr: His (possibly unrequited) attraction to Guen and guilt over Arthur causes him a fair share of misery.

!! Morgana
Arthur's half-sister and a powerful dark magic user.
* ResponsibleOlderSibling:

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