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* [[The Lost Woods]]: Prince Bright Night's domain.

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Arthur, Gwenhwyfar, Lancelet, Morgaine, Accolon, Elaine.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: When Arthur {{spoiler|caves to Gwenhwyfar's begging requests to ~~forsake~~ Avalon and ~~exalt~~ ~~Christianity.~~ ~~Then~~ the ~~shit~~ ~~really~~ ~~hits~~ the ~~fan.~~}}

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: When Arthur {{spoiler|caves to Gwenhwyfar's begging requests to fly her Christian banner instead of Avalon's in battle. Though the common soldiers do not care and fight for Arthur anyway, Viviane and Kevin-the-Merlin are enraged by this and regard it as Arthur forsaking paganism and Avalon, even though Arthur was raised as a Christian and his only contacts with Avalon were the Great Marriage (when he was tricked into having sex with his sister) and when Viviane gave him Excalibur and pressured him into taking an oath}}.

* [[MacGuffin]]: The Holy Grail.

* [[Matriarchy]]: The way things are run in Avalon where girls are forced to sleep with men they don't know or care about for ritual reasons, bear or abort children according to the dictates of the High Priestess and used their sexuality to lure and betray men they love.... This is Feminism?

* [[Matriarchy]]: The way things are run in Avalon, where girls are forced to sleep with men they don't know or care about for ritual reasons, bear or abort children according to the dictates of the High Priestess and used their sexuality to lure and betray men they love.... This is Feminism?

** Igraine thinks in the first chapter of the first section: "A daughter of the Holy Isle must do as was best for her people, whether it meant [[Human Sacrifice|going to death in sacrifice]], or [[Questionable Consent|laying down her maidenhood in the Sacred Marriage]], or [[Arranged Marriage|marrying where it was thought meet to cement alliances]][.]" No wonder people are converting to Christianity, if those are the only alternatives for Avalonian girls!

* [[Merlin and Nimue]]: Done with unbelievable tragedy.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: You'd think [[Anjelica Huston]] would play the evil sister and Joan Allen would play the good one, instead of vice versa!

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* [[Sex As a Rite of Passage]]: The Sacred Marriage ritual, watch out your partner might be your sibling.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Gwenhwyfar, Lancelet, Morgaine, Morgause, Igraine.

* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: The book shows definite signs of this, as characterization contradicts itself from chapter to chapter, the timeline is tangled and involves frequent retcons, and the continuity is nonexistent. This was almost certainly deliberate, as Marion Zimmer Bradley "[http://home.pon.net/rhinoceroslodge/mzb.htm became irate when they (fans) expected her to remember details and fashion consistency throughout" her Darkover series, which she insisted was not a series]; she felt that timelines and continuity confined authors' creativity and therefore should be ignored. (Mind you, she did care about using the book to preach about the goddess. Just not about the details of the story.

* [[Three-Way Sex]]: {{spoiler|Arthur, Gwenhwyfar, and Lancelot.}}

* [[Twice-Told Tale]]: While it is not strictly necessary to be familiar with Arthurian legend to enjoy the book, it makes a lot more sense if you know the basics of the legends.