One of the things I've been playing around with in my feywild is having it be directly adjacent to the plane of dreams in my cosmology, which helps explain why it doesn't really fit anywhere else in dnd alignment-based system, and is also a convenient way to explain how night hags (who are very dream-based) form. I'm planning to borrow a lot from things like the sandman and irish myths for my feywild, but these videos have been super helpful for inspiration and just collecting information from dnd's more obscure sources. Also, if you're looking for fey dragons, I think Fizban's treasury of dragons has a Moonstone Dragon that's fairly fey themed.
I hadn't even considered night hags! The feywild is quite dream-like, and I think I saw another comment at some point suggesting that dreams on the material plane could be a reality in the feywild, at least in some cases. I will definitely be looking into Moonstone Dragons, thanks!
About the dragon in the Feywild. You mentioned the poisonous green dragon, their distinguishing feature is that they collect treasures not just in the form of jewelry and gold. But also in the form of people and generally human-like assets. They like to "possess" them. In this case, it would be interesting to create an image of a lazy dragon who is constantly sleeping, but his magic extends to the territory of their lair. Magic forces make passers-by to fall under the influence of the dragon's dream and becomes part of the representation in the Feywild of what is happening in the dragon's sleepy mind. It turns out such a circus and theater around the dragon, which is beginning to spread its influence more and more. The task of the adventurers is to first understand that something is wrong here, then to understand that they and other creatures are under someone's influence and in the end figure out how to wake up the dragon to dispel the magic. However, it is unlikely that dragon will be happy ...
I love this! Especially if the dragon is having twisted, evil dreams, all sort of monsters and strange, dream-like encounters could take place. They could even have an encounter where the monster they're fighting has the ability to slow them down, inducing that running-but-barely-moving state dreams sometimes have.
I love your videos! I just wrote an encounter involving a cryptic poem! Here to share! Sir Gwin Gaiwen, The Green Knight; in service to The Green Lord [Marches in confidently and merrily.] “Do you know what day it is, my fine and fancy fellows?” “Why, it is today! Most gloriously!!I must bellow.” “And on this day I have a game for he who dare play…. His mind, will tame And what, at once, is given Shall be twice received Just is what’s driven Be it ill or love conceived” “Most gloriously!! My dream achieved.”
Hey! Thanks for the amazing videos, i always loved the myths around Arthur and the knights, can't wait to use them in my campaign. As for ideas: In Germany we have the "Niebelungenlied" where main character Siegfried helps his friend "sway" a woman in his favor by tricking her and steals a ring to prove he's done it. Later he gets stabbed in the back because the secret gets out and the ring is used as backup. The story is more complicated than that and has some pretty dark undertones but i think it would be interesting to have a Siegfried encounter your players where they could decide to help him trick a Princess and get him killed afterwards or help him find a more chivalrous path and realize women should not be "conquered". Also young Siegfried slayed a dragon and bathed in its blood to become practically invulnerable except for a small spot on his back, where a leaf prevented the blood from coating his skin. This secret is later revealed by his wife, which is why they could kill him in the first place. I think this is a common trope that dragonblood gives you powers (it's also included as a draconic gift in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons) and the Character of Siegfried is mentioned in different germanic and nordic saga.
Just found your channel and I’m currently binge watching them. I love you content and it’s giving me lots of material for my game. Here’s a dragon idea, a HUGE sized faerie dragon with increased stats comparable to an adult dragon (your pick), DC 15-20 vs euphoria breath weapon. This dragon is still mischievous, but in a very malevolent way. This could be a lot of fun. 😂
Thank you!! That means a lot. And I love that idea, like a queen of fairy dragons. The euphoria breath could also create illusions or some sort of mind warping, for a really trippy experience.
In my campaign, there's a sapphire dragon that my party has never seen but has contacted them through dreams. My plotline was that it asked them through visions/dreams to destroy/ desecrate a temple to Lolth in the underdark because it had an egg nearby, but it was too far away (ie.in another realm) to do anything itself. It was also known to the local city of svirfneblin, Blingdenstone, as "The Dream Speaker", and the city was deeply religious about it. Basically it was a neutral dragon that lived to far away form "society" that it only cared to interact with a creature because it would benefit it. I wonder if you could do something similar with the feywild rather than the underdark.
That's a great idea! I'm always really interested in using dreams, for communication, visions, etc. I think the feywild would be a great place for that.
Just finished an arc in our campaign where we seem to be dimension or realm hopping. We encountered a Moonstone dragon that was taken to this dimension from the Feywild as a wyrmling. He lived in a section of this realm made to have some Feywild characteristics, the moon was always in a Cresent. Fortunately, he wasn't the Big Boss Because we are only level 6 characters and couldn't take down a dragon this powerful. He wanted us to resolve a conflict between some elves with lycanthropy and orcs. He just wanted to live peacefully or destroy everyone. In exchange for resolving the conflict, he opened a portal, saying he can't get us back home, but he can get us somewhere closer to home. And now we're about to enter the Feywild. This will be super interesting for me because my character is an Eladrin who is also Feylost. So I have been working on a backstory as to how that's possible. And trying to learn as much as I can about the Feywild to prepare for my character's and party's journey into the Feywild.
If you want more inspiration for Fey encounters and the Feywild look into the 1982 The Dark Crystal, 1986 Labyrinth, Alice in wonderland (books and movie) and the Chronicles of Narnia. The Dark Crystal's Skesis and Mystics as well as the Labyrinths Goblin King are really fun and whimsical sources of inspiration for NPCs. My Feywild has elements from all these sources and makes a very chaotic but lively environment. I have even gone so far as to make my own Archfey, The Baron of Leaves and Dawn, who is part of a Fey court not related to the Seelie or Un-Seelie. Thanks for giving me more things to consider for my setting!
Thanks! I'm currently running Wild Beyond the Witchlight, and it definitely pulls from Lewis Carroll's writings. Conglomerating outside literature like that is so fun and helpful.
Remember that due to the power of emotions in the fey wild even a regular material plane dragon could have a huge impact there. Just imagine the feelings of a regular material plane black dragon washing over the fey wild around them.
in 5e, the deep dragon is a fungus-flavored dragon with poison and trippy mind-control powers. like many dragons, the CR changes with age, so it's a good fit for in any feywild adventure.
Yeeeeeee :D my eeeeeegooooo :D Gawain’s story is definitely.. it’s got some.. pacing issues? The beginning is so cool, so much intrigue. And then, you just feel strange and uncomfortable until the end, where it just doesn’t have a satisfactory payoff. Maybe there’s a cultural disconnect, maybe that ending was like, so topically relevant to the people of the time…? 😅 the new movie does a great job of instilling the same sense of uncomfortability. The encounter is awesome. I never thought of actually having to fight a green knight, it could be just the good parts of the tale lol My brother, who’s playing a centaur paladin, has always really loved the green man mythos. I told him about the series, and he gave me a sandman comic that features Titania and Oberon, and assorted fey being an audience to a telling of midsummer’s night dream. It’s not DND but it is the fey in pop culture. It’s sandman #19, dream country #3. One of the hobgoblins, robin goodfellow, seems RIPE for encounter content Also, my green man loving brother, playing a paladin centaur, an ancient order centaur paladin, wants to be oathbound to Quetzalcoatl. Dang ole, player agency. The blood serpent centaur is admittedly cool, but not as cool as a true green knight Last thing, even just as an Easter egg, a king with a werewolf for a pet is just 👌 amazing
Turning Robin Goodfellow into a hobgoblin is so funny! I also love Neil Gaiman and had never looked into the series, but the cover art is beautiful. Definitely added it to my list! Thank you!
One creature you could use as a dnd equivalent for Grendel's mother would be a sea hag, seeing as they're both aquatic female creatures with a hatred of humanity. I might combine arthurian legend with beowulf and say that Grendel's mother and the Lady of the Lake are rivals. It could be interesting to see the party caught between them, and having to pick a side. Or, you could have something like the Lady of the Lake asking the party to retrieve a magic sword from Grendels mother that she stole, which could lead to an interesting encounter depending on how you played the underwater sections
Came up with a magical weapon for my fey-originating goblin poisoner, feel free to take or leave as much of it as you’d like :D ------------ Nightwild Knife +1 shortsword This blade, commissioned and blessed by the Unseelie Queen, is one of few made. A slender, wicked, curved blade. It’s curves and edges seem to shift and move, as if constantly trying to elude sight. Blessed with powerful nature magic, this is a blade given to only the most feared and respected of the feywild’s predators. This weapon is an embodiment of nature’s most debilitating, ruthless properties. - A magical wellspring of poison suffuses the weapon. Attacks with it benefit from the effects of basic poison. - Poisons applied to the blade seep into it’s core, extending the poison’s use far beyond normal, and amplifying it’s effects. Poisons other than basic poison can be applied to this weapon as an action, and last for 3x the amount of normal uses. This replaces the basic poison effect until the applied poison wears off. - As a bonus action, you can invoke the wild terror of the night, giving you 30 feet of teleportation for three turns. It can be taken all at once, on the first turn for example, or spread across the three turns. At the end of your turn that the effect ends, either from using all 30 feet, or it being the 3rd turn; roll a DC 11 Nature or Arcana check. If you succeed, the ability resets and you gain another 30 feet total of teleportation for three turns. You can attempt this check whenever the ability ends, raising the DC by 5 every consecutive attempt. This ability can be used once per long rest.
This is wicked! I'm almost surprised that it's just a +1. I can imagine giving this to a higher up in the unseelie court, some sort of nasty rogue after the party. Thanks for sharing it!
@@feywildfiend +2 or 3 felt too strong, I was worried about giving it plus anything lol But yeah! I homebrewed this for a player, but I’m starting to actually get a story together for a fey campaign and had come up with a lieutenant for the Unseelie Queen, a shapeshifter spy, and my first thought was how cool it would be to give him that.
haven't seen it in the comments, so i'll state the obvious: Grendel is related to Cain (human), yet he and mom have supernatural powers. The idea here is that Grendel is a giant/nephilim, so a perfect Feywild version would be a Troll or a Fomorian (and mom is a hag).
Could you talk about Ragnar lothbrok at some point? I know it's not fae related but (as a stretch) the fortune teller who inadvertently sets him on his course could be a fae of some kind.
I put it on my list! A lot of what I talk about won't be originally fey, but if it's a bit strange and interesting, I'm all for it. I could definitely talk about him for a video on Norse folklore!
Maybe the dragon's breath of the creature doesn't do damage but instead forces stunned or confusion where the characters' perception of reality is warped. In this state, characters have to roll under the Dragon's AC to hit.
This is such a fun idea! If the AC is really high, though, they could hit too easily then. Maybe a wacky roll could work, like the DM rolls at the same time, and if the player rolls that number or close enough to it, then it hits?
I knew you would eventually get to this but the Green Knight story is particularly near and dear to my heart keep in mind the codes around Knighthood were very complicated Mixing and Mashing belief systems which was particularly poignant to Arthur and that whole Myth cycle because you see them overlay Christian beliefs and interpretations on these older stories but my interpretation of the situation is the game is like tag a knight couldn't receive a blow without answering the insult which was why I was thinking the entire time you can hit this dude anywhere he's clearly magical why did you go for the head?? you're not magical you could very clearly be decapitated and I felt Gaiwan going was on his real test of manhood the entire time out into the Pagan wilderness bonding with nature like this freaky green men figure I think it was very bad taste to go for his head could have cut the dude on the cheek giving him a cool scar anywhere but it felt very much like an old school test so there's a reason why I have an entire order of paladins based around green knights it don't like it was one part challenge and one part Rocky montage of course in my setting I make a point of pointing out a difference between knights and paladins because many of the Oaths and Promises Knights swear in service to their Lords can be morally compromising whereas paladins internalize one big promise and that Geas that dreadfully powerful and magical obligation empowers them so every Paladin Oath is an obligation in the same way Batman's code of Never Again does this happen to another child drove his fate and changed it until he was a whopping Avatar of vengeance paladins as Oathkeepers are basically performing to an older moral standard before written laws
You're right, Gawain absolutely did not have to cut off his head! Arthur came up with the idea when he jumped up first and started swinging. At the same time, though, the belt to protect Gawain came from the Green Knight, even if Gawain didn't know it. You could argue that it was always a game, that real danger was never present. If you're curious about the conflict between chivalry and Christian values, Perceval is actually a great story! He's caught between the knightly teachings and his Christian instruction, and when he leans on one at the wrong time, he fails to save a whole kingdom.
@@feywildfiend you know if I can find the book anywhere I'm definitely going to check that out basically in a section of the world where a lot of the savage cultures are the Fey have influenced noble customs styles and concepts as a nod to Etruscan culture concepts of knighthood and horsemanship were influenced by actual Centaurs even though in my world they're not Fey creatures and are a rare western influence on hyperborean culture
@@LongfusedbombasticBarbarian Oh nice! My copy is second hand, Perceval or The Story of the Grail translated by Ruth Harwood Cline. The actual author is Chretien de Troyes, if you want to give a go at the French lol!
One of the things I've been playing around with in my feywild is having it be directly adjacent to the plane of dreams in my cosmology, which helps explain why it doesn't really fit anywhere else in dnd alignment-based system, and is also a convenient way to explain how night hags (who are very dream-based) form. I'm planning to borrow a lot from things like the sandman and irish myths for my feywild, but these videos have been super helpful for inspiration and just collecting information from dnd's more obscure sources. Also, if you're looking for fey dragons, I think Fizban's treasury of dragons has a Moonstone Dragon that's fairly fey themed.
I hadn't even considered night hags! The feywild is quite dream-like, and I think I saw another comment at some point suggesting that dreams on the material plane could be a reality in the feywild, at least in some cases. I will definitely be looking into Moonstone Dragons, thanks!
Your enthusiasm for your topic really shines through in how you deliver the content, which is already pretty good
About the dragon in the Feywild. You mentioned the poisonous green dragon, their distinguishing feature is that they collect treasures not just in the form of jewelry and gold. But also in the form of people and generally human-like assets. They like to "possess" them.
In this case, it would be interesting to create an image of a lazy dragon who is constantly sleeping, but his magic extends to the territory of their lair. Magic forces make passers-by to fall under the influence of the dragon's dream and becomes part of the representation in the Feywild of what is happening in the dragon's sleepy mind. It turns out such a circus and theater around the dragon, which is beginning to spread its influence more and more.
The task of the adventurers is to first understand that something is wrong here, then to understand that they and other creatures are under someone's influence and in the end figure out how to wake up the dragon to dispel the magic. However, it is unlikely that dragon will be happy ...
I love this! Especially if the dragon is having twisted, evil dreams, all sort of monsters and strange, dream-like encounters could take place. They could even have an encounter where the monster they're fighting has the ability to slow them down, inducing that running-but-barely-moving state dreams sometimes have.
I love your videos! I just wrote an encounter involving a cryptic poem! Here to share!
Sir Gwin Gaiwen, The Green Knight; in service to The Green Lord
[Marches in confidently and merrily.]
“Do you know what day it is, my fine and fancy fellows?”
“Why, it is today! Most gloriously!!I must bellow.”
“And on this day
I have a game
for he who dare play….
His mind, will tame
And what, at once, is given
Shall be twice received
Just is what’s driven
Be it ill or love conceived”
“Most gloriously!! My dream achieved.”
Hey! Thanks for the amazing videos, i always loved the myths around Arthur and the knights, can't wait to use them in my campaign.
As for ideas: In Germany we have the "Niebelungenlied" where main character Siegfried helps his friend "sway" a woman in his favor by tricking her and steals a ring to prove he's done it. Later he gets stabbed in the back because the secret gets out and the ring is used as backup. The story is more complicated than that and has some pretty dark undertones but i think it would be interesting to have a Siegfried encounter your players where they could decide to help him trick a Princess and get him killed afterwards or help him find a more chivalrous path and realize women should not be "conquered".
Also young Siegfried slayed a dragon and bathed in its blood to become practically invulnerable except for a small spot on his back, where a leaf prevented the blood from coating his skin. This secret is later revealed by his wife, which is why they could kill him in the first place. I think this is a common trope that dragonblood gives you powers (it's also included as a draconic gift in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons) and the Character of Siegfried is mentioned in different germanic and nordic saga.
I intent to look into more Norse and German folklore and mythology soon, and I've definitely added Siegfried to my list! Thanks for the info!
Just found your channel and I’m currently binge watching them. I love you content and it’s giving me lots of material for my game.
Here’s a dragon idea, a HUGE sized faerie dragon with increased stats comparable to an adult dragon (your pick), DC 15-20 vs euphoria breath weapon. This dragon is still mischievous, but in a very malevolent way. This could be a lot of fun. 😂
Thank you!! That means a lot. And I love that idea, like a queen of fairy dragons. The euphoria breath could also create illusions or some sort of mind warping, for a really trippy experience.
I love seeing things I can use for inspiration but also things I've seen on OSP before lol
In my campaign, there's a sapphire dragon that my party has never seen but has contacted them through dreams. My plotline was that it asked them through visions/dreams to destroy/ desecrate a temple to Lolth in the underdark because it had an egg nearby, but it was too far away (ie.in another realm) to do anything itself. It was also known to the local city of svirfneblin, Blingdenstone, as "The Dream Speaker", and the city was deeply religious about it. Basically it was a neutral dragon that lived to far away form "society" that it only cared to interact with a creature because it would benefit it. I wonder if you could do something similar with the feywild rather than the underdark.
That's a great idea! I'm always really interested in using dreams, for communication, visions, etc. I think the feywild would be a great place for that.
I love the Bisclarvet idea! a whole family line of noseless Eladrin.
Just finished an arc in our campaign where we seem to be dimension or realm hopping. We encountered a Moonstone dragon that was taken to this dimension from the Feywild as a wyrmling. He lived in a section of this realm made to have some Feywild characteristics, the moon was always in a Cresent. Fortunately, he wasn't the Big Boss Because we are only level 6 characters and couldn't take down a dragon this powerful. He wanted us to resolve a conflict between some elves with lycanthropy and orcs. He just wanted to live peacefully or destroy everyone.
In exchange for resolving the conflict, he opened a portal, saying he can't get us back home, but he can get us somewhere closer to home. And now we're about to enter the Feywild.
This will be super interesting for me because my character is an Eladrin who is also Feylost. So I have been working on a backstory as to how that's possible. And trying to learn as much as I can about the Feywild to prepare for my character's and party's journey into the Feywild.
Watching another amazing inspirational video on the chanel and then: "Bites her nose off!" What?! I'm 😵
Like a punch to the face
If you want more inspiration for Fey encounters and the Feywild look into the 1982 The Dark Crystal, 1986 Labyrinth, Alice in wonderland (books and movie) and the Chronicles of Narnia. The Dark Crystal's Skesis and Mystics as well as the Labyrinths Goblin King are really fun and whimsical sources of inspiration for NPCs. My Feywild has elements from all these sources and makes a very chaotic but lively environment. I have even gone so far as to make my own Archfey, The Baron of Leaves and Dawn, who is part of a Fey court not related to the Seelie or Un-Seelie.
Thanks for giving me more things to consider for my setting!
Thanks! I'm currently running Wild Beyond the Witchlight, and it definitely pulls from Lewis Carroll's writings. Conglomerating outside literature like that is so fun and helpful.
Remember that due to the power of emotions in the fey wild even a regular material plane dragon could have a huge impact there.
Just imagine the feelings of a regular material plane black dragon washing over the fey wild around them.
in 5e, the deep dragon is a fungus-flavored dragon with poison and trippy mind-control powers. like many dragons, the CR changes with age, so it's a good fit for in any feywild adventure.
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Gawain’s story is definitely.. it’s got some.. pacing issues? The beginning is so cool, so much intrigue. And then, you just feel strange and uncomfortable until the end, where it just doesn’t have a satisfactory payoff. Maybe there’s a cultural disconnect, maybe that ending was like, so topically relevant to the people of the time…? 😅 the new movie does a great job of instilling the same sense of uncomfortability.
The encounter is awesome. I never thought of actually having to fight a green knight, it could be just the good parts of the tale lol
My brother, who’s playing a centaur paladin, has always really loved the green man mythos. I told him about the series, and he gave me a sandman comic that features Titania and Oberon, and assorted fey being an audience to a telling of midsummer’s night dream. It’s not DND but it is the fey in pop culture.
It’s sandman #19, dream country #3. One of the hobgoblins, robin goodfellow, seems RIPE for encounter content
Also, my green man loving brother, playing a paladin centaur, an ancient order centaur paladin, wants to be oathbound to Quetzalcoatl. Dang ole, player agency. The blood serpent centaur is admittedly cool, but not as cool as a true green knight
Last thing, even just as an Easter egg, a king with a werewolf for a pet is just 👌 amazing
Turning Robin Goodfellow into a hobgoblin is so funny! I also love Neil Gaiman and had never looked into the series, but the cover art is beautiful. Definitely added it to my list! Thank you!
You said "dungeons and dragons" and I remembered that I wasn't just learning about Gawain & the Green Knight lmao
Lmao I do love me some summarizing
One creature you could use as a dnd equivalent for Grendel's mother would be a sea hag, seeing as they're both aquatic female creatures with a hatred of humanity. I might combine arthurian legend with beowulf and say that Grendel's mother and the Lady of the Lake are rivals. It could be interesting to see the party caught between them, and having to pick a side. Or, you could have something like the Lady of the Lake asking the party to retrieve a magic sword from Grendels mother that she stole, which could lead to an interesting encounter depending on how you played the underwater sections
Now wait a diddly darn MINUTE. This is such a good idea!
Came up with a magical weapon for my fey-originating goblin poisoner, feel free to take or leave as much of it as you’d like :D
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Nightwild Knife
+1 shortsword
This blade, commissioned and blessed by the Unseelie Queen, is one of few made. A slender, wicked, curved blade. It’s curves and edges seem to shift and move, as if constantly trying to elude sight. Blessed with powerful nature magic, this is a blade given to only the most feared and respected of the feywild’s predators. This weapon is an embodiment of nature’s most debilitating, ruthless properties.
- A magical wellspring of poison suffuses the weapon. Attacks with it benefit from the effects of basic poison.
- Poisons applied to the blade seep into it’s core, extending the poison’s use far beyond normal, and amplifying it’s effects.
Poisons other than basic poison can be applied to this weapon as an action, and last for 3x the amount of normal uses. This replaces the basic poison effect until the applied poison wears off.
- As a bonus action, you can invoke the wild terror of the night, giving you 30 feet of teleportation for three turns. It can be taken all at once, on the first turn for example, or spread across the three turns.
At the end of your turn that the effect ends, either from using all 30 feet, or it being the 3rd turn;
roll a DC 11 Nature or Arcana check. If you succeed, the ability resets and you gain another 30 feet total of teleportation for three turns.
You can attempt this check whenever the ability ends, raising the DC by 5 every consecutive attempt. This ability can be used once per long rest.
This is wicked! I'm almost surprised that it's just a +1. I can imagine giving this to a higher up in the unseelie court, some sort of nasty rogue after the party. Thanks for sharing it!
@@feywildfiend +2 or 3 felt too strong, I was worried about giving it plus anything lol
But yeah! I homebrewed this for a player, but I’m starting to actually get a story together for a fey campaign and had come up with a lieutenant for the Unseelie Queen, a shapeshifter spy, and my first thought was how cool it would be to give him that.
haven't seen it in the comments, so i'll state the obvious: Grendel is related to Cain (human), yet he and mom have supernatural powers. The idea here is that Grendel is a giant/nephilim, so a perfect Feywild version would be a Troll or a Fomorian (and mom is a hag).
Could you talk about Ragnar lothbrok at some point? I know it's not fae related but (as a stretch) the fortune teller who inadvertently sets him on his course could be a fae of some kind.
I put it on my list! A lot of what I talk about won't be originally fey, but if it's a bit strange and interesting, I'm all for it. I could definitely talk about him for a video on Norse folklore!
I'm thinking what if it kind of looks like a giant owl, or a giant spider?
Maybe the dragon's breath of the creature doesn't do damage but instead forces stunned or confusion where the characters' perception of reality is warped. In this state, characters have to roll under the Dragon's AC to hit.
This is such a fun idea! If the AC is really high, though, they could hit too easily then. Maybe a wacky roll could work, like the DM rolls at the same time, and if the player rolls that number or close enough to it, then it hits?
theres one called the moonstone dragon it is a feywild dragon in fizbands
The accent in Gawaine is on the second syllable, it’s pronounced Ga-wayne.
I knew you would eventually get to this but the Green Knight story is particularly near and dear to my heart keep in mind the codes around Knighthood were very complicated Mixing and Mashing belief systems which was particularly poignant to Arthur and that whole Myth cycle because you see them overlay Christian beliefs and interpretations on these older stories but my interpretation of the situation is the game is like tag a knight couldn't receive a blow without answering the insult which was why I was thinking the entire time you can hit this dude anywhere he's clearly magical why did you go for the head?? you're not magical you could very clearly be decapitated and I felt Gaiwan going was on his real test of manhood the entire time out into the Pagan wilderness bonding with nature like this freaky green men figure I think it was very bad taste to go for his head could have cut the dude on the cheek giving him a cool scar anywhere but it felt very much like an old school test so there's a reason why I have an entire order of paladins based around green knights it don't like it was one part challenge and one part Rocky montage of course in my setting I make a point of pointing out a difference between knights and paladins because many of the Oaths and Promises Knights swear in service to their Lords can be morally compromising whereas paladins internalize one big promise and that Geas that dreadfully powerful and magical obligation empowers them so every Paladin Oath is an obligation in the same way Batman's code of Never Again does this happen to another child drove his fate and changed it until he was a whopping Avatar of vengeance paladins as Oathkeepers are basically performing to an older moral standard before written laws
You're right, Gawain absolutely did not have to cut off his head! Arthur came up with the idea when he jumped up first and started swinging. At the same time, though, the belt to protect Gawain came from the Green Knight, even if Gawain didn't know it. You could argue that it was always a game, that real danger was never present.
If you're curious about the conflict between chivalry and Christian values, Perceval is actually a great story! He's caught between the knightly teachings and his Christian instruction, and when he leans on one at the wrong time, he fails to save a whole kingdom.
@@feywildfiend you know if I can find the book anywhere I'm definitely going to check that out basically in a section of the world where a lot of the savage cultures are the Fey have influenced noble customs styles and concepts as a nod to Etruscan culture concepts of knighthood and horsemanship were influenced by actual Centaurs even though in my world they're not Fey creatures and are a rare western influence on hyperborean culture
@@LongfusedbombasticBarbarian Oh nice! My copy is second hand, Perceval or The Story of the Grail translated by Ruth Harwood Cline. The actual author is Chretien de Troyes, if you want to give a go at the French lol!