The Quest for Excalibur

Arthur and Merlin pass beyond the maps, into the warded mountains that hide the Sanctuary of Excalibur. The sword calls, but it does not call gently — and the trials it sets are not battles to be won, but truths to be faced.

Behind him, his court fractures. Lancelot and Guinevere are pulled into a misreading the whole kingdom believes. Mordred carries a blade he does not understand. And in the keep beyond the mountains, the long design begun in Act I begins to take its shape.

Act II is the price of power — what it asks, what it gives, and what it costs the ones left behind.