When Joe asked for ideas of public domain stories, characters and plots, the first thing that came to my mind was the legend of King Arthur.

Now, Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have gone through so many interpretations and incarnations that no one should feel any great need to adhere to popular models of Camelot. Make up your own stories. Hell; we could make up our own knights.

Presumably the best-known version of the Arthurian legends is T.H. White's 'The Once and Future King', or the Disney adaptation of the first part of White's work, 'The Sword in the Stone'. Obviously the Disney work is still protected by copyright, but as far as I can work out, White's initial book is not. I could be wrong. Regardless, most of the well-known legends predate it.

There many, many ways in which we could approach this rich and (certainly for me) exciting mythology, but I was struck by Ntheon mentioning that religious texts were public domain; before you raise a quizzical brow, no, I'm not suggesting a cross-over in which Arthur and Jesus are a pair of hilariously mismatched cops (although...). What I rather had in mind was in telling the story of Arthur in an epistolary manner, with different knights - or other characters - contributing their own "gospels" of how it went down in their own eyes.

I need to stress at this point that I really intend to do Kay the justice denied him by every version I've encountered. He's often either a bully or a lout, though he's always witty, and often a skilled warrior. Who else shall we turn to? Maybe someone has a soft spot for Bors, or Gawain? Will the doomed love of Tristan and Iseult get the HitRECord treatment?

Over to you guys.

(Apologies, I don't know how to make this a "result" of various discussions, but these are the relevant:
http://www.hitrecord.org/records/45093
http://www.hitrecord.org/records/26047
http://www.hitrecord.org/records/46632
So, uh, yeah. Fun.)