“This life, this entire world, was a crucible. It was the crusade of their times, and they were the knights, the warriors.”

“He was a warrior, a modern-day white knight.”

“You can’t cushion me from the entire world, Knight.”“I can try.”

“We were all forged in the crucible.”

“In the energies of the Green Knight, we have an Elder who comes to the entire court of Arthur to challenge and "open a bridge" to the Otherworld. Here is the Holly King, the Forest Lord, the Green Man. The Green Knight enters Arthur's court at a Yuletide festival and challenges at once both Arthur and his warriors to step forth and take part in the traditional Beheading contest”

“At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.”