Comes The Magic Warrior

The legend of King Arthur as we now understand it originates mostly from the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth, a Welsh cleric who in the 12th century wrote his ‘Historia Regum Britanniae’ (translated as a ‘History of the Kings of Britain’) a work which was intended to describe the lineage of the British monarchy in the form of a chronological narrative, ostensibly over a 2000 year time Span; starting with the Trojans - who apparently originally founded the British nation, until the Anglo Saxons assumed control of much of Britain around 600 A.D. It is a document which is now considered to have little value in history as it is wildly inaccurate when compared to other more reliable contemporary histories, which describe amongst other things Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain in much greater detail.
References to Arthur’s existence appeared in a cross section of texts poems and stories originating from locations both here in Britain to as far afield as southern France, which suggest that he was responsible for creating an empire which stretched from Iceland to Gaul (a region of Western Europe in the iron-age which included present day France, Luxembourg, Belgium and much of Switzerland). This is in some ways not surprising as the Celtic tribes held sway over much of Western Europe and even parts of northern Italy. Indeed Gaul was an acknowledged thorn in the side of the Roman Empire until the area was finally conquered around 51 BC.
That which follows is in no way intended to impact or muddy the waters of the Arthurian legend. It was simply an opportunity to entertain two impressionable young ladies who continuously demanded I regale them with stories out of my head at bed time, whenever they ran out of new books for me to read. What follows therefore is a figment of my imagination straight from the depths of a mind shaped by the broad cross section of the science-fiction and fantasy novels which fed my voracious appetite for the written word as a child. It is therefore as uncertain and apocryphal as any other work surrounding legend of King Arthur and his mentor Merlin, but it does have one advantage over the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth, it is specifically and unashamedly a work of fiction.