My only issue with this first season (as a reader of the books) is that every single location - and ESPECIALLY Peredur's hall and the swamp village - look like amazing eco-tourist spots that I'd love to have a holiday in. As opposed to the "collection of muddy puddles" and "mud-coloured mud" and "slimy muddy grimy…

So when I told my dad (72) that I was watching a show about Alfred the Great, his IMMEDIATE response was: "Haha did he burn the oat cakes yet?"

It's interesting how there are no "dumb evil warriors". There are evil priests and evil weedy lords, and evil traders/slavers, but any big bastard with an axe is just like, a solid dude who's actually really nice once you get to know him

This is what happens when you decide to tell a story about what it's like to fight in ALL the important battles but you write it in first person. The narrator has to be a Superhuman Badass. And then to take the edge off that, you have to keep killing off all his friends.

Since you posted this a year ago I'll assume you either read the books or abandoned them… but I would say that I think Warlord Chronicles really worked for me because I'd read other (in hindsight) "fan fiction" level Arthurian stories (Stephen Lawhead's books in particular) and I got to The Winter King and it's all…

One of the problems Cornwall has writing the books is that Alfred the Great pretty much constantly kicks Dane ass throughout his reign (apart from that little incident with the oat cakes). The Saxons win most of the battles, and the Danish Jarls drop one by one. So if you're just recounting historical fact, it's not…