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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Done both to the reader and in-universe: plenty of things which seem normal to the Dark Age-era British characters are distasteful or even taboo to modern sensibilities, while within the text, the characters' wildly differing moral and cultural ideals cause conflict and friction.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** Done both to the reader and in-universe: plenty of things which seem normal to the Dark Age-era British characters are distasteful or even taboo to modern sensibilities, while within the text, the characters' wildly differing moral and cultural ideals cause conflict andfriction.friction.
** Notably, among Avalonians rape is never portrayed as a crime, only something that powerful people have the right to commit, with anyone who objects being framed as small-minded. Note that we're still expected to sympathize with Viviane ''after'' she tricks her niece and nephew into having sex. A horrified Morgaine still reveals she's been conditioned to see the rape of a child by an adult as something sacred and holy.
** Done both to the reader and in-universe: plenty of things which seem normal to the Dark Age-era British characters are distasteful or even taboo to modern sensibilities, while within the text, the characters' wildly differing moral and cultural ideals cause conflict and
** Notably, among Avalonians rape is never portrayed as a crime, only something that powerful people have the right to commit, with anyone who objects being framed as small-minded. Note that we're still expected to sympathize with Viviane ''after'' she tricks her niece and nephew into having sex. A horrified Morgaine still reveals she's been conditioned to see the rape of a child by an adult as something sacred and holy.
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* Polyamory: While none of the assorted marriages in the book are entirely monogamous, Arthur and Gwenhwyfar are a unique case, engaging in ThreeWaySex with Lancelet while the text continually hammers that all three of them are in love with each other. Gwenhwyfar genuinely loves both men, both men love her and each other. Moreover, Arthur seems to continue to harbour incestuous feelings towards Morgaine for years, if not the rest of his life, even while genuinely in love with Gwenhwyfar and presumably Lancelet, and with occasional hints of having other affairs on the side.
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* Polyamory: {{Polyamory}}: While none of the assorted marriages in the book are entirely monogamous, Arthur and Gwenhwyfar are a unique case, engaging in ThreeWaySex with Lancelet while the text continually hammers that all three of them are in love with each other. Gwenhwyfar genuinely loves both men, both men love her and each other. While Arthur and Lancelet rarely act on it directly with each other, this seems to be an element behind Arthur condoning Gwenhwyfar's and Lancelet's affair, in some ways making it something of a triad or three-way marriage. Moreover, Arthur seems to continue to harbour incestuous romantic feelings towards Morgaine for years, if not the rest of his life, even while genuinely in love with Gwenhwyfar and presumably Lancelet, and with occasional hints of having other affairs on the side.
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* Polyamory: While none of the assorted marriages in the book are entirely monogamous, Arthur and Gwenhwyfar are a unique case, engaging in ThreeWaySex with Lancelet while the text continually hammers that all three of them are in love with each other. Gwenhwyfar genuinely loves both men, both men love her and each other. Moreover, Arthur seems to continue to harbour incestuous feelings towards Morgaine for years, if not the rest of his life, even while genuinely in love with Gwenhwyfar and presumably Lancelet, and with occasional hints of having other affairs on the side.
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** Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never be able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and {{Gayngst man he loves}}, so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
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** Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never be able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and {{Gayngst [[{{Gayngst}} man he loves}}, loves]], so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
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** Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never be able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and ((Gayngst man he loves)), so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
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** Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never be able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and ((Gayngst {{Gayngst man he loves)), loves}}, so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
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** Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never. E able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and [[Gayngst man he loves]], so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
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** Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never. E never be able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and [[Gayngst ((Gayngst man he loves]], loves)), so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
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** Mordred has a belated realization that actually, he could care less about Gwenhwyfar's sex life - the cudgel he'd used to goad several of Arthur's men into rebellion and civil war against him - is filled with remorse, and repudiates his foster-mother, Morgause, for poisoning him against his father.
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** Mordred has a belated realization that actually, he could care less about Gwenhwyfar's sex life - the cudgel he'd used to goad several of Arthur's men into rebellion and civil war against him - is filled with remorse, and repudiates his foster-mother, Morgause, for poisoning him against his father. But it's all too late by then, and he himself dies in battle against Arthur.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Igraine is never portrayed as happy in her marriage to Gorlois, and he becomes increasingly unhappy with her as well until he's finally killed off.
** Lancelet is forced into marriage with Elaine after Morgaine slips him a potion compelling him to have sex with her. While he explicitly doesn't blame Elaine for this and seems to try to treat her kindly, he's also miserable in the marriage and copes by spending nearly all his time away from home campaigning. Elaine, who had wanted to marry Lancelet and had asked for Morgaine to intervene, eventually confesses that her married life is quite lonely, with a husband who is often away for months on end and rarely home for more than a week at a time.
** Lancelet is forced into marriage with Elaine after Morgaine slips him a potion compelling him to have sex with her. While he explicitly doesn't blame Elaine for this and seems to try to treat her kindly, he's also miserable in the marriage and copes by spending nearly all his time away from home campaigning. Elaine, who had wanted to marry Lancelet and had asked for Morgaine to intervene, eventually confesses that her married life is quite lonely, with a husband who is often away for months on end and rarely home for more than a week at a time.
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* DownerEnding: As expected for Arthurian legend. All of the main characters either die brutally by the end, or live to be elderly, lonely, and full of regrets.
** Arthur ends up fatally wounded in a battle with his son Mordred. The only possible chance of saving him is for Morgaine to bring him to Avalon - which is now all but cut off from the rest of the world.
** Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never. E able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and [[Gayngst man he loves]], so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
** Lancelet ends his life an utterly broken man, having lost nearly everyone he cares about to death or estrangement, and, from Gwenhwyfar's perspective, perhaps a little SanitySlippage.
** Morgaine, having lived a bitterly unhappy life and alienated nearly everyone around her with her manipulations, finally understands that she will not be able to preserve her religion in the world, and finally returns to Avalon with a fatally-wounded Arthur to fade away into the mists.
** Mordred has a belated realization that actually, he could care less about Gwenhwyfar's sex life - the cudgel he'd used to goad several of Arthur's men into rebellion and civil war against him - is filled with remorse, and repudiates his foster-mother, Morgause, for poisoning him against his father.
** Morgause's ending might seem almost PlayedForLaughs in comparison - her final scene is a man roughly a third her age rejecting her sexual advances - but it's meant to portray that for all her scheming and manipulations over the years, she has gained nothing, and now she is simply old and irrelevant.
** Arthur ends up fatally wounded in a battle with his son Mordred. The only possible chance of saving him is for Morgaine to bring him to Avalon - which is now all but cut off from the rest of the world.
** Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never. E able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and [[Gayngst man he loves]], so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
** Lancelet ends his life an utterly broken man, having lost nearly everyone he cares about to death or estrangement, and, from Gwenhwyfar's perspective, perhaps a little SanitySlippage.
** Morgaine, having lived a bitterly unhappy life and alienated nearly everyone around her with her manipulations, finally understands that she will not be able to preserve her religion in the world, and finally returns to Avalon with a fatally-wounded Arthur to fade away into the mists.
** Mordred has a belated realization that actually, he could care less about Gwenhwyfar's sex life - the cudgel he'd used to goad several of Arthur's men into rebellion and civil war against him - is filled with remorse, and repudiates his foster-mother, Morgause, for poisoning him against his father.
** Morgause's ending might seem almost PlayedForLaughs in comparison - her final scene is a man roughly a third her age rejecting her sexual advances - but it's meant to portray that for all her scheming and manipulations over the years, she has gained nothing, and now she is simply old and irrelevant.
