@LacetheDisgrace Thank you! Comments like that help me stay motivated to keep writing. 
Iām glad Arthur caused some character development for your ice queen. I hope youāll enjoy the future installments (whenever I manage to finish them; sigh).
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I have a question about Guen later in the series. Letās say we have a Guen whoās frivolousness and enjoys spending time on her appearance and generally doesnāt care about Camelot in the slightest. Would it be possible for her to ruin the kingdom financially, and for the peasants to revolt in Marie Antoinette/French Revolution manner? I think that would be really interesting to have the kingdom be brought down due to the Queenās spending habits.
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Question? Will there ever be a chance for a calculating queen to say to Arthur, look i will give you a child but only if you do something for me?
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@flowersloveoranges I absolutely second that motion. 
I have 2 Guens that I could see doing that.
(1) Ditzy Guen, who loves fancy dresses and jewels but doesnāt know the first thing about finance and would be totally clueless as to how her spendthrift ways are bankrupting the kingdom.
(2) Skanky Guen, who also has expensive tastes, and really just doesnāt care all that much about the kingdomās ātreasuryā or āgeneral welfare.ā
@jeantown, in the future, can you add options for the MC to learn Frankinsh, Greek and other languages?
@flowersloveoranges (and @buggygirl11) That woud be fun. Itās probably the kind of thing Iād go back and layer in after Iāve written the whole thing. Guenās rule will be challenged as part of the treason accusation in part 6, so that might be an appropriate time to build in additional complaints of āand sheās emptied the treasury to buy dresses, too!ā Iāll just have to wait and see how much extra work it might be to build that in as a cohesive path.
@skulls Interesting idea. What demands could Guen make (that wouldnāt require me to write a whole different story)?
@NJG If it seems relevant to the plot. I donāt know exactly which languages might be plot-relevant in the future, but if Britain continues to have any sort of relationship with Frankmarch, it would make sense for Guen to have an option to learn Frankish.
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Guen could make demands such as: telling Arthur to make Lancelot leave the kingdom and never have contact with him again, telling Arthur to stop being so incompetent, or by having Arthur leave all the political decisions up to her ( if someone were to chose that for their Guen).
Letās be real. Frankmarch wants all the sheep because Frankmarch is trying to win an intense game of Settlers of Catan.
Also if Lancelot could give Guen Frankish lessons that could be interesting. No strong feelings either way, but itās a cool possibility.
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@skulls Good ideasā¦ though Iām afraid Lancelot is plot-necessary, so I canāt exile him; all I can do is make him minimize interactions with Guen (which heāll do anyway if she tells him to; no Arthur needed). Telling Arthur to stop being incompetantā¦ kinda depends on him understanding the definition of āincompetant,ā so Guen might have to be more specific. But I do like the idea of Guen making some sort demand in exchange for agreeing to have a baby; Iāll just have to see if anything specific and workable presents itself.
@SwanMaiden Double like on the Settlers of Catan! Actually, if Guen and Lancelot are in a romance, him teaching her Frankish would be a great excuse for them to spend time together! (which isnāt to say that L teaching G Frankish would have to be in a romantic context; it just could be.) Iāve added that to my notes. Thanks for the idea.
@NJG That depends on several factors, mainly how soon Camelot gets word of the invasion, and whether or not they believe Guen is her real self. If Camelot sends out the call-to-arms earlier, Britain could have as many as 4700 fighters to defend the castle (a mixture of trained soldiers and peasants). If the call goes out late (and depending on some other choices), they could have as few as 2250. The Frankish force is about 6000, along with catapults and a few magical surprises.
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@jeantown, what about Camelot catapults, cannons, heavy weapons, etc.? Also, will Merlin participate? Lastly, how many Knights were present?
Merlin wonāt be there - heās still at DruidCon.
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You know I realise that the situation is a long way away but I still donāt have any clue how my Guen is going to react to the idea of Morgana and Arthur forced to have a child together, especially when itās the man she loves and her husband and the woman she considers one of her closest friends and allies in Camelot. It be interesting to get to that section at any rate.
Was just wonderingā¦ will the gender of the baby in Part IV be the same regardless of whose child it happens to be?
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@jeantown Speaking of the number of soldiers at the Camelot battle, you said the number would depend on choices Guen makes in Book I and the first half of Book II.
How Book Iās choices would affect things seems fairly obvious (soldiers canāt fight in Camelot if theyāre DEAD because of the late rocket). But which Book II choices will affect this?
Sorry if this is too spoilery, Iām just really curious! 
Are merlins day dreams actually visions of the future??
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@buggygirl11, @jeantown But the siege is of Camelot is more than three years after the battle of Badon in Book I. It should be enough time to recruit and train new soldiers to replace these losses.
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They donāt have any ready to go, though it may be possible to acquire something along those lines.
Nope; as @OtherGrimm says, heās still at DruidCon checking out the merch and the parties. Maybe heāll bring Guen a t-shirt.
Most of the high-ranking ones went with Arthur. Others, like Merlin, are away on other business or donāt live at Camelot. The only Round Table knights present for the battle will be Sir Ector, Sir Erec, Sir Yvain, and, if Guen choses to send him there, Sir Lancelot. Thereās also a small cavalry who technically count as knights, but theyāre low-ranking and not members of the Round Table.
I think so, and I canāt wait to start writing it! If only this battle would write itself alreadyā¦
It will be a surprise. 
As @WulfyK says, itās been long enough that any losses from Badon Hill will have been replaced, but whether or not Guen fired the rocket in time will affect morale, which has a big impact on the battle. Choices Guen made in parts 1 and 2 will indirectly affect the number of troops because they can affect how long it takes Guen to get to Camelot, and who might be able to vouch for her identity if itās in doubt. The sooner she gets there and people believe sheās the real queen, the sooner the call to arms will go out.
Only time will tellā¦ but probably not all of them, and probably not none of them.
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If Merlin doesnāt, I demand to punish him for not bringing the Queen a t-shirt. As such, is there any punishment for such an offense?
Also, why is Merlinās carrot so unusual?
Lastly, the peasants in the army are (no offense to peasants) untrained waifs with rusted knifes, right?
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@jeantown @WulfyK Oops, my mistake. 
I guess Iād forgotten exactly how long 3 WHOLE YEARS really is (since it was only one year in RL).
@buggygirl11 But it will take three whole years in RL until the battle of Camelot will become playable. 
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