Baseball cards are a big market. For decades kids have collected cards that come in bubble gum packets. Topps baseball cards are pulled off the racks and carried to the cashier with lawn mowing money or allowances. Now kids are able to buy cards of players from nearly every sport. A lot of adults enjoy the pastime of collecting as well. Why not develop trading cards in other areas of interest, like Knights of The Round Table?

There could be a series of knights of the middle ages. It could include a variety of interesting statistics, including the number of crusades, the battles fought and quests endeavored, the dragons slain and the damsels saved. There are many stories of St. George and the Dragon. Why not put St. George, and the dragon for that matter on a card collection? King Arthur and the Knights of the roundtable would be a fantastic collection to pursue. There are at least 35 different Arthurian knights alone. Who wouldn’t desire a card of Ywain the Bastard? He was a Knight born to the mistress of King Urien of Gore, a name and title that sounds like a bad horror film. Ywain the Bastard was a hearty soul that was killed in a joust during the quest for the holy grail. Ywain was accidentally killed by his cousin, Gawain. Gawain was also a knight of Arthurian legend. He was known as the polite Knight and the Knight of the maidens.

The legends of the Knights are full of magic, romance and noble, though often misguided deeds. The legends are packed with betrayal, adultery, violence and other dark acts of the soul. The sons and daughters of the knights is a convoluted family tree with interweaving roots and branches. A collection of reference cards, might assist a child trying to untangle the Arthurian Roundtable. It could also raises some questions that parents might not be ready to answer. Untangling the connection between King Arthur, Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere and Arthur’s decision to burn her at the stake might perplex both parent and child. For those not versed in Arthurian Legend, Sir Lancelot was King Arthur’s most entrusted knight. Guinevere, the Arthur’s young wife and Lancelot fell in love despite their wish to be noble and upright members of the court. It was this love affair that brought down the Arthurian Kingdom. That’s great stuff to collect in trading cards.

Guinevere opens up the door to and brings up the subject of the women of Camelot. There are many that are flesh and blood and many that are magical beings, and some that are both. Morgan LeFay was King Arthur’s half-sister and is said to have possessed the gift of healing. Morgan took King Arthur to Avalon because he was near death from a battle wound. There is the Lady of The Lake, likely a conglomeration a different women according to the legends. In one story she is Merlin’s apprentice, betraying him when she got all he could give her.

The people and the stories of the Knights of The Round Table are enough to create a series of collectable cards bringing the stories of the Round Table to youngsters of today.

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