Leondegrance Pendragon
Leondegrance Pendragon, King of Promiseland, was purported to be the son of King Arthur. In reality, however, his father was the queen’s lover Lancelot du Lac. That said, King Leon never faced the kind of public vitriole which was levied at his mother. Nobody seemed to blame him for the controversy over his parentage. How could they, after all?
He was born at Camelot in the year 194, just weeks before his adopted father would die in battle. Raised thereafter as the heir apparent, he was doted upon from an early age. And yet, despite how spoiled he was, King Leon remained a kind and modest man for the whole of his life.
He spent years combing through the stacks of the Edenian Athenæum, the glorious library of his mother’s homeland, and he knew all too well that in realities past there were great people born from every walk of life. And awful people, too. The social station you were born into had little to do with whether you’d be any good as a person. That’s what King Leon learned from his years of reading and studying, and that was the guiding principle of his reign.
Tragically, these were lessons he failed to pass on to his own children and grandchildren. And so, the years of happiness in Promiseland came to an end with King Leon’s death in 243.
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