Joyous Gard Joyous Gard The castle of Joyous Gard is the home of the knight Lancelot as mentioned in Arthurian legend. It has been associated with Bamburgh Castle. In Arthurian legend, the Joyous Gard is the home of Sir Lancelot, who names it as such when he sets up his household at the castle. Late medieval British author Thomas Malory gives the following details. After Lancelot's adulterous and treasonous affair with Queen Guinevere, Lancelot rescues Guinevere, who is under sentence of death from King Arthur, and brings her to the Joyous Gard. According to the Stanzaic "Morte Arthur", Arthur then unsuccessfully besieges
Xothic legend cycle a series of ten or twelve black jade slabs, which also included the sacred rituals and mysteries of Ythogtha. The final story in the cycle is only loosely tied to the other four. This story reveals the true nature of the yuggs. The hero of "The Lurker at the Threshold" becomes a mythos worshipper in this tale. Xothic legend cycle The Xothic legend cycle is a series of short stories by American writer Lin Carter that are based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, primarily on Lovecraft's stories "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Out of the Aeons". The