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A.K.A. Everyone who's not Merlin, Morgan le Fay or Ninianne/Vivien/Nimue. 'Cuz they're oversaturated

Taliesin the Bard (Welsh Mythology)

Ambrosius Aurelianus (Historia Brittonum)

Uther Pendragon (The Welsh Triads)

Menw ap Teirgwaedd (Welsh Mythology)

King Arthur (?) (Welsh Mythology)

The Nine Witches of Ystawingun (Pa Gur)

The Nine Witches of Caer Lloyw (Peredur)

Orddu the Witch (Culhwch and Olwen)

The Nine Sisters of Avalon (sans Morgan) (Vita Merlini)

Queen Ganieda (Vita Merlini)

Queen Guinevere (De Ortu Waluuanii/Enfances Gauvain)

King Melwas (Welsh Mythology)

King Valerin (Lanzelet)

Malduc (Lanzelet)

Sir Tristan (The Welsh Triads)

Iseult the Elder (and possibly Iseult the Fair herself) (Tristan and Isolde)

Thessala (Cliges)

Eliavres (Perceval, 1st continuation)

The Maiden of the White Hands (Le Bel Inconnu)

Mabon the Enchanter/Mabon ap Modron (Le Bel Inconnu, Prose Tristan, Post Vulgate)

Evraine (Le Bel Inconnu)

Lady Tryamour (Lanval/Launfal)

Klingsor (Parzival)

Kundry (Parzival)

Giramphiel (Diu Crone)

Gansguoter (Diu Crone)

Enfeidas (Diu Crone)

Fairy L'Orgueilleux (L'Atre Perilleux)

Queen Morgause of Orkney (L'Atre Perilleux)

King Celidoine (Vulgate Estoire de Graal)

Guinebal (Vulgate Merlin)

Master Elias of Toulouse and his fellow clerks (?) (Vulgate Lancelot)

Vortigern's Clerks (Vulgate Merlin)

Lady Gamille (Vulgate Lancelot)

Lady Brisen (Vulgate Lancelot, Le Morte D'Arthur)

Lady Sebile (Vulgate Lancelot, Le Propheties de Merlin)

The Queen of Northgallis (Le Propheties de Merlin, Le Morte D'Arthur)

The Queen of Sorestan (Vulgate Lancelot)

The Queen of Eastland (Le Morte D'Arthur)

The Queen of the Out Islands (Le Morte D'Arthur)

The Lady of Avalon (Le Propheties de Merlin)

Queen Crisea (Post Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal)

Tanabos the Enchanter (Post Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal)

Darnant the Enchanter (Perceforest)

Hellawes (Le Morte D'Arthur)

Annowre/Elergia (Le Morte D'Arthur, La Tavola Ritonda)

Lady Lynette (and possibly Lyonesse) (Le Morte D'Arthur)

Pulzella Gaia (Pulzella Gaia)

Sir Fellone (La Tavola Ritonda)

The Green Knight (Bredbeddle ver.) (King Arthur and King Cornwall)

King Cornwall (King Arthur and King Cornwall)

Archimago (The Faerie Queene)

Acrasia (The Faerie Queene)

Busirane (The Faerie Queene)

Duessa (The Faerie Queene)

Telorique (Memorial das Proezas da Segunda Tavola Redonda)

Notes:

This list is tentative and subject to change.

The list discounts Saints and other Christian Holy Persons (such as Galahad). It also discounts characters with "superpowers" (such as Kay and Gawain). In general, the focus is on "Spellcasters"/Magic as an art or skill (Admittedly, the line is very murky).

Arthur is included on this list due to a combination of his various accounts of wonder-working in folk stories and his status as a bard in the Welsh literature. However, it is open to interpretation, hence the question mark.

Good friends. Motorists guide, Yellowstone National Park. 1924.

It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."

After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.

The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.

While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.

When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.

At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.

On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).

Geez! Lurk much?

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A crescent Earth sets behind the Moon.

On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II astronauts flew around the Moon, observing the far side – which we never see on Earth thanks to tidal locking – with their own eyes and with cameras.

See more of the Moon: