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Hank MorganA stranger who speaks familiarly of Arthur’s knights and claims responsibility for a hole in ancient armor.First seen in chapter 1
ArthurA figure whose knights the stranger discusses as though he knows them.First seen in chapter 1
Sir LauncelotA knight whose adventures include killing two giants and freeing sixty captive noblewomen.First seen in chapter 1
ClarenceA friendly page who identifies Arthur’s court and tells the imprisoned stranger the date.First seen in chapter 4
Sir KayThe knight who holds the stranger prisoner at King Arthur’s court.First seen in chapter 4
MerlinA storyteller whose account of Arthur obtaining a sword and protective scabbard puts the court to sleep.First seen in chapter 5
GueneverThe queen to whom prisoners surrender as Sir Kay’s captives before the assembled court.First seen in chapter 5
Sir DinadanA court entertainer who delights his audience with a noisy dog chase and familiar jokes.First seen in chapter 6
Sir Sagramor le DesirousA knight who mistakes the target of the narrator’s anger and challenges him to fight.First seen in chapter 11
SandyA woman who reports captive girls and monstrous brothers, then accompanies the narrator on his rescue mission.First seen in chapter 13
Morgan le FayA castle ruler whose charm conceals cruelty and whose anger turns to fear when she recognizes The Boss.First seen in chapter 18
HugoA tortured prisoner whose refusal to confess protects his family’s property.First seen in chapter 19
DowleyA craftsman whom the narrator befriends and invites to dinner at Marco’s home.First seen in chapter 33
Hello-CentralA child whose dangerous illness brings Sir Launcelot away from business to help nurse her.First seen in chapter 42

Chapter 1
At Warwick Castle, a stranger claims responsibility for a mysterious hole in ancient armor and begins telling his story.
Chapter 2
The stranger describes a head injury, waking in unfamiliar countryside, and capture by an armored rider.
Chapter 4
Clarence tells the prisoner that he is at Arthur’s court in 528, prompting him to remember an eclipse.
Chapter 8
An eclipse saves the narrator from burning and helps him secure freedom and a permanent government office.
Chapter 9
The narrator secretly plants blasting powder in Merlin’s tower and destroys it during a thunderstorm.
Chapter 12
The narrator quietly expands schools, factories, military training, and communications while delaying his promised adventures.
Chapter 13
Arthur sends the narrator to rescue captive girls, accompanied by the woman who reports their imprisonment.
Chapter 16
Pipe smoke frightens attacking knights, and Sandy secures their promise to surrender at Arthur’s court.
Chapter 20
The narrator inspects Morgan le Fay’s prison and frees forty-seven captives punished through rank, spite, and unequal laws.
Chapter 22
Sandy identifies hogs as captive princesses, and the narrator buys the animals rather than challenge her belief.
Chapter 25
The narrator’s experts repair the leaking well, while he presents the restored water as a spectacular supernatural victory.
Chapter 27
An army examination favors noble ancestry over knowledge, defeating the narrator’s educated candidate.
Chapter 29
The narrator and Arthur travel disguised as peasants, but the king’s habits repeatedly threaten to expose them.
Chapter 31
Arthur and the narrator help a family suffering from smallpox despite infection risks and a Church ban.
Chapter 36
After escaping an angry mob, Arthur and the narrator are sold as slaves because they cannot prove their freedom.
Chapter 37
A month of suffering as a slave makes Arthur support abolition, while the narrator begins planning their escape.
Chapter 39
The narrator reaches a telegraph office and asks Clarence to send Launcelot with five hundred knights.
Chapter 40
Launcelot leads knights on bicycles to rescue Arthur and the narrator from execution outside London.
Chapter 41
Hank defeats knights with a lasso, kills Sir Sagramor with a revolver, and drives away a mass attack.
Chapter 42
The narrator describes expanding reforms, considers a republic, and takes his family to France after Hello-Central’s recovery.
Chapter 43
Missing ships draw the narrator back to England, where he discovers the Church’s Interdict and a deserted Camelot.
Chapter 44
Clarence reports Arthur’s death and the collapse of support for reform, and the Boss proclaims a republic.
Chapter 45
The Boss and his companions destroy attacking knights with explosives, electricity, gunfire, and a diverted brook.
Chapter 46
Clarence recounts the Boss’s stabbing and Merlin’s claimed sleeping spell, before M.T. witnesses the stranger’s delirium and death.
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