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Over subsequent centuries, the Holy Grail grew into the entire ''raison d'etre'' of the entire Arthurian Court, when originally the Grail Quest was so singularly dangerous that there was a special chair at the Round Table reserved for those who dared attempt it, called the Siege Perilous. By giving the knights a single sacred focus rather than having them [[Walking the Earth|stumbling around Britain]] falling ass backwards into [[The Quest|quests]], this transformation made the sprawling tangle of stories more coherent, and elevated the moral standing of the knights.
The Holy Grail itself also grew hugely in significance, in some cases taking on parts of various other magic hamper and cauldron myths, which created a [[Continuity Snarl|mythological snarl]] whose origins modern scholars are nowhere close to deciphering (compare to the several lucid theories about the Sword in the Stone that have cropped up in modern scholarship). By the first decade of 13th century, in ''Parzival'' by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzifal's calling to the Grail Quest is explicitly a calling to a higher and better world than the normal quests of Arthur's court. The text claims that the Grail itself was the stone the neutral angels of Heaven stayed in during the war against Lucifer. By the 15th century, Malory depicts the Grail [[Cosmic Keystone|as so powerful]] that when Galahad (the most pure and dedicated of all the knights) succeeds on the Grail quest he [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|instantly ascends to Heaven]]. It is the archetype behind an entire subvariety of [[The Quest]], [[The Grail Quest]] (which, despite its name, is not always about finding ''the'' Grail.)
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