Eye Candy - Gold Lion

Somebody lend him a comb!

Eye Candy - Everyone's Favourite Scout!

Eye Candy - All Of Them!

Proudly presenting: Our noble knights! Because we love them and they're so gorgeous :D

Let's drink to the purchase of this fine new piece of furniture! It really defines the room, doesn't it?

Attack! (Remember to look cool!)

Let us line up for maximum effect! (The ladies seem to love it)

Are you sure there are no Woads here, Tristan?

We do not like this Marius guy!

We are the knights who say: NI!
Discharged at last

To battle! ("Rawr!", I mean "RUUUUUS!!!!!!")

Dungeon Birds - The Woad Rebels

The Woad Rebels:



Bedwyr, Nimue's & Niall's late father, close friend & advisor to Merlin

'Old Blind' Aled, Woad druid

Fallon, Woad scout, captured and executed by Saxons

Oisín, Woad scout, captured and executed by Saxons

Maire, Woad scout, captured by Saxons

Dungeon Birds - character list - Vanora's & Bors' brood

Our favourite canon couple's numerous offspring, as (re-)named in chapter 15


One, daughter
new name: Terelyn
namesake: Maeve's mother


Two, son
new name: Fingal
namesake: Vanora's father


Three, son
new name: Cabal
namesake: Lancelot's & Iosante's father


Four & Five, twin daughters
new names: Serra & Selia
namesakes: Galahad's twin sisters


Gilly, son
full name: Gilliam


Seven, daughter
new name: Naomi
namesake: Tristan's sister


Eight, daughter
new name: Avaline
namesake: Bors' mother


Nine, son
new name: Rion
namesake: Gawain's brother


Ten, daughter
new name: Theris
namesake: Dagonet's mother


Eleven, son (baby)
new name: Cadfael
namesake: see further characters


Thanks to my awesome beta-reader for helping me to come up with these!

Further characters, Author's Note

Well, this blog was originally started to provide some visualization for my fanfic "The Dungeon Birds" on http://www.fanfiction.net/. Now I decided to post some side notes here as well that will help with understanding. You, dear reader, are very welcome to comment on all posts (or go to ff.net and review the story there).


Dramatis animalae ;)


Llamrei - Arthur's white mare

Ghost - Lancelot's dark stallion

Gringolet - Gawain's grey-white-ish stallion, the name was taken from Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur'

Anahita - Galahad's mare, white with grey legs

Rustam - Tristan's stallion, dapple grey

Tengri - Bors' horse, black

Barastyr - Dagonet's stallion, black

Andraste - Nimue's mare, grey

The Dungeon Birds - The Britons

Here are more characters/sidekicks who appear or are at least mentioned in the upcoming fanfic.


The Britons:


Bryn, young healer and rebel sympathizer

Niall, Nimue's brother, traitor, guide to the Saxon army

Rhian, his wife, slaughtered by the Saxons

Raelyn & Cerys, their young daughters

Evina, Maeve's and Lucan's aunt

Cadfael, (deceased) old Briton healer at Hadrian's Wall who functioned as a father substitute for the knights