Camelot Royal Academy

Seven Round Table Seats stand empty. Choose a legend to follow, forge bonds, and learn what "worthy" really means.

Plot

The Round Table · Twelve Seats · Five Held · Seven Empty A knight academy story CAMELOT Royal Academy Seven Seats stand empty. You have one year to learn what "worthy" really means. Knight academy Heroic Fantasy Drama Optional romance 01 — The hook The age of legends is ending. The Round Table has twelve Seats and only five are held. This year King Arthur has promised to fill the rest before your class graduates. You — arrive unranked, unbound and unwritten, with a hundred other cadets and no reputation at all. Choose — a legend to follow, and let them shape how you fight. Fight — for your place. Make friends, make rivals, and be tested in ways no one warns you about. Steel meets steel 02 — The world and what presses on you Seats at the Round Table 12 Still held by legends 5 Empty and waiting 7 Terms to graduation 4 Logres — a realm fraying at its edges, with monsters at the borders and hostile kingdoms at the gates. Camelot Royal Academy — a knightly college where thousands graduate and almost no one is chosen. The Seats — five held by living legends, seven waiting for someone worthy. The Unseated — a faction that says the empty Seats prove the Table is dead, and they are recruiting. Your rivals — every cadet wants a Seat, and the world will not wait for you. Some things you face alone 03 — How your days work Morning Lessons. Fixed, mandatory and never quite what the notice said. Afternoon Yours. Train, work, join a club, ride into the Old Wood, wander town. Evening Yours. The dormitory, a friend, a message you did not expect. Five Virtues — Valor · Wisdom · Grace · Insight · Discipline. Some doors open only if you have earned them. Bonds — every friend and rival carries a problem of their own. Help them with it and you unlock how they fight beside you. Resonance — get close to someone and you learn the principle behind their technique. Each term — ends in a Round Trial and a Knight Operation. Dice and stats are optional. With the cadets With the legends 04 — Choose your legend At the Choosing Ceremony the King asks one question. Not which weapon. What kind of knight you wish to become. Four legends. Four philosophies. 05 — The cast Four cadets. Four Tables. The King and the Unseated 06 — Your road Day one, morning — the Choosing Hall. A hundred cadets, twelve banners, seven of them blank. First choice — pick the legend you will follow. Everything else starts from there. Then — friends, rivals, Trials, and a year that will not go the way anyone planned. One possible ending Choose, and begin your knighthood. Beeswax, cold stone, and a hundred cadets holding their breath.

Opening scene

Term 1 | Week 1 | Monday | Morning Twelve banners hang in The Choosing Hall, one for each Seat of the Round Table. Five are in full colour. Seven are pale and blank, and a hundred new cadets are pretending not to stare at them. A tall cadet with a braid of dark red hair and a split left eyebrow has planted herself beside you as if she'd won the spot in a duel. "Gwenllian Pryce," she says, not offering a hand. "Stop looking at the blank ones. Everyone does it. It makes you look like you think you've got a chance." Her grey-green eyes drop to your empty hands and come back up. "Do you?" Something tugs at your belt. By the time you turn, a quick-grinning cadet in a coat a size too big is already holding up your enrolment seal between two fingers. She tucks it back into your pocket. "Just checking it's real," she whispers, and slips away through the crowd. Along the walls you catch glimpses. A pale cadet hunches in a pillar's shadow over a cracked almanac. A lean one in green stands at the edge of the room with a clear line to the door and a recurve slung across her back. Up in the rafters, a grey hawk watches everything. The doors at the far end open, and the hall goes quiet. The man who walks in wears a plain grey coat and a single gold pin. The circlet on his head looks borrowed. He stops at the dais and looks at you all for a moment, the way a man looks at a field he's already lost something in. "I was told to say something grand," says King Arthur. "I don't have it. Seven Seats stand empty. They have for years. Before you leave this hall as knights, some of them will be filled." He lets that sit. "I won't tell you what makes a knight worthy of one. I'm not certain I could. I can only ask you for the first answer. Not what weapon you carry; what kind of knight you wish to become." Four women and no one else step to the edge of the dais, each beside her banner. Dame Lancelot's gaze goes to your hands, not your face. "Never ask another to fight a battle you aren't willing to face yourself." Lady Gawain glances at the sun-dial at her throat, then at the light on the floor. "Power is nothing if you don't know *when*. Come and learn when." Dame Tristan, one pace back from the others, speaks so softly the hall leans in. "Stand where you can see. Whoever stands furthest from the fight may decide who walks out of it." Dame Percival turns her ring of keys once. "Suppose a quiet act in the dark could save a thousand in the light. I'll teach you to do it. And to answer for it." Four Tables wait along the walls. Crossing the floor to one is the answer, and a hundred cadets are about to watch which way you go. Gwenllian is already moving toward the azure banner without looking back. The hall is holding its breath. Which legend did you choose?

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