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Guinevere

The film opens in King Arthurs court introducing the characters of King Arthur, Guinevere, Sir

Lancelot, Mordred, Sir Kay, Sir Galahad and Sir Bedivere. They talk of the disappearance of Merlin.

Guinevere is captured by some unknown band of assassins but she escapes with the help of hersecret fighting skills and Amicus, a roman alchemist. They find themselves in Rome so Guinevere

assumes its an assassination attempt by the Emperor Lucius.

They travel to Briton using disguise potions, created by Amicus, as they fear the assassins will be

searching for them. The potions arent very strong but alter their appearance to others. When they

reach King Arthurs court they find an imposter queen on the throne. This is Guineveres identical

half-sister by her father; who Guinevere explains to Amicus, she thought was dead. As Guinevere

goes to announce her return Amicus stops her reminding her that she herself could be seen as the

imposter.

They return at night and sneak into the imposter Queens room to question her. The imposter is

confused as she believes herself to be the real Guinevere and when tested she knew as much of

Guineveres history as she did herself. Amicus uses a true potion on her but rather than making her

tell the truth it makes her scream shrilly attracting the attention of the guards outside the room,

however, they escape unseen.

The two flee to a nearby lake where they review what just happened. Guinevere notes that they are

not her usual guards and that her ladies in waiting are missing. She then begins to question her own

identity as she believes the imposter to be telling the truth I know my own face when it s telling the

truth. but Amicus says he knows shes the real one. His faith encourages her. They decide to work instealth to uncover what is going on. They find a cave near the lake in which to hide and rest.

Meanwhile, a womans head rises from the lake, its the Lady of the Lake, and she appears evil.

The two wake the next day to find an ambush of knights outside the cave. They have to fight to

escape. Amicus uses a potion meant to make them run in fear; however, it turns the closest knight

into a chicken. Amicus steals his shield to defend himself and the two escape. Afterwards they

reflect that someone must have known they were there and who she was. Imprinted on the back of

the shield was a small crest; it was the crest of Mordred, Arthur s nephew.

Guinevere discuses herself again and begins to infiltrate her way into Mordreds life while Amicus

gets a job in the kitchens so he can learn from the gossip as keep close watch on the imposter

queen. Guinevere begins a romance with Mordred in order to extract information about his plans.

Amicus laces Mordred s food with a better made true serum that works slowly over time. Mordred

tells Guinevere about his mother, Morgan le Fay, pushing him to be better and saying to him that

soon he will be king, however, he appears to have no idea that the current Queen on the throne is

an imposter. Meanwhile, Amicus discovers that the imposter queen is having relations with Sir

Lancelot. He also finds that a woman so metimes enters through the imposter queens window; he

doesnt know who she is and has never seen her in court.

Having extracted enough information Guinevere and Amicus swiftly leave the castle. They decide to

wait for this mysterious intruder before searching out Morgan le Fay. The woman appears, cloaked

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and hidden, on a horse with four guards. While the woman enters the imposter queens room

Amicus uses a potion to knock out two of the guards, Guinevere and Amicus then disguise

themselves in their robes. They follow the mysterious lady back in the night only to find themselves

entering Morgan le Fays court.

Guinevere and Amicus disappear, knowing that discovery wasnt an option , and find refuge in a localvillage. Guinevere explains her confusion as Morgan was always a kind lady and a healer of the sick

but that she had been rarely seen for a year now and the people in the village explain how she is

now cruel. The next day they hear that the Queen is to be executed as they have discovered her

affair with Sir Lancelot.

Knowing this means the plans, whatever they are, are about to be put into action, the two are

pushed to act fast. They enter her court again and Guinevere tricks one of Morgans body guards

into a dungeon while Amicus waits outside. Guinevere threatens the guard to get him to talk. He

explains how they found the identical Guinevere and brought her to this dungeon where she stayed,

unseen, for a year. Morgan visited every night until one day she brought her out and she had no ideaof her old life and believed herself to be the Queen, Guinevere. While King Arthur was on his roman

campaign they had organised Guinevere to be taken over seas and assassinated, so her body

wouldnt be found, but the assassins thought theyd take her to Rome instead and sell her as a slave.

Meanwhile, Morgan replaced her with the imposter. Guinevere asked why Morgan did all this, the

guard smiles and says in a feminine voice to put my son on the throne. It turns out to be Morgan

herself using her shape shifting powers. She hits Guinevere with a spell. Before Guinevere passes out

from pain she sees Morgan transform into her mirror image and leave the dungeon.

Guinevere is woken up by one of the boys from the village but she doesnt remember who she is or

how she got there. The boy tells her to find her friend and that he went to the great lake. Notknowing who she is or anything about her past she decided to head to the lake as the boy said. The

word in the village is that the Queen, who was sentenced to death, was rescued by Sir Lancelot and

hes fled overseas pursued by King Arthur.

Guinevere arrives at the lake to find Morgan, seemingly alone, discussed as Guinevere; however,

Guinevere has no recollection of what she looks like so only sees what seems to be a familiar face.

She approaches Morgan and asks if she know her and explains about her amnesia. Morgan plays

along and pretends to be the friend shes looking for. She tells her that Mordred will be here soon

and they must kill him to save the king. Guinevere is reluctant but then the lady of the lake appears

and tells her it is true. They tell her that the evil Morgan has placed an imposter queen on the throneand that the disguised Morgan is the genuine queen. Guinevere says that a Lancelot had just recued

a queen and that the King has left to fight him; Morgan looks ecstatic at the news. She tells

Guinevere that this means its the perfect time for her to kill Mordred but that she, Morgan, had to

sort out other things. She tells Guinevere to kill the next man to enter the lakes cle aring and gives

her a knife.

Later on Amicus walks into the clearing and sees Guinevere. He hurries over explaining that hed

escaped Morgan, knowing shes fake, to come and free her but shed gone. He embraces her, behind

him Guinevere sees the Lady of the Lake. Amicus then goes to kiss her and as he does Guinevere

stabs him in the back. She then suddenly remembers everything but its too late; Amicus dies in herarms.

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The Lady of the Lake, who was watching the whole event, then screams as the curse on her lifts. She

tells Guinevere that someone had cursed her, making her corrupt Morgan and imprison Merlin. She

tells Guinevere where to find Merlin. She gives her armour, a powerful sword and a horse as no

doubt Morgan is still cursed and after her.

Guinevere travels for a long time to the distant cave where Merlin is trapped and uses the power inthe sword to free him. She explains the whole story as they travel back to Camelot. Before they

arrive they find that Mordred has seized the throne and is moments from a great battle with Arthur.

Merlin says theres nothing they can do to stop it. He then asks who it was that cursed the Lady of

the Lake. To find out they return to the lady herself. She refuses to talk but then breaks down to

reveal that shes ashamed to say she fell in love. A man then appears from the cave saying that he

was then able to curse her in her exposed state. The man is Sir Kay, a large knight from King Arthurs

court who possesses magical skill. He reveals that Merlin had told him that should Arthur and

Mordred fight they would be evenly matched and both die. He developed a plan that meant he

could take the throne and the Roman Empire as a beloved knight and never accused of murdering

the great King Arthur. Hed sent most of the knig hts off after the Grail to make it even easier and use

Mordred and his Mother to do all the dirty work. He says his plan is almost complete but now that

he now needed to dispose of Merlin and Guinevere. The three then battle using a combination of

magic and sword skills. Guinevere falls to the ground and sees the Lady of the Lake watching the

battle just below the surface. Guinevere then crawls back leading Sir Kay to the edge of the lake. He

draws up his arms for a finishing blow when the Lady of the Lake rises up, grabs him and pulls him

under the water.

Merlin and Guinevere hurry to the battle to find everyone dead. Morgan stands over the body of her

son as he dies beside the also dying Arthur, being held by Sir Bedivere. Merlin explains that grief has

the power to lift curses such as the on the Lady of the Lake and on Morgan. He tells Morgan that she

must heal Arthur and she agrees but she wants to bury her son in Avalon first. She tells them to send

Arthur down the stream to her in Avalon but he must stay with her there.

The film ends as Guinevere, holding something of Amicus, watches Arthur float down stream to

Avalon.