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This is likely my mind coming off of seeing Your Name recently, but the image of a possible lover Britomart sees sees in Merlin's mirror brings to mind the compelling tragedy of wishful lovers separated by an uncontrollable force.
Again with the lady knight characters. It would be pleasing if I could do a follow-up story to Maiden Steel, but let's consider original options as well.
What if love were not guiding Britomart's quest, but another emotion? Revenge? Fear? Grief?
Arthur and Guyon are hardly in these stories, gone not even halfway into the second chapter.
Britomart's pursuit of Artegall seems a bit rash. Though she hears of his greatness from others, she still rushes off to pursue someone she has never met nor has any personal connection to.
A modernization of this could be enticing. I have a mental picture of Britomart as a street fighter rather than a knight, after seeing her duel with the six knights.
After Britomart looked into the mirror, shew grew ill, pale, and lost a great measure of her positive emotions. It's almost as if the mirror placed a curse upon her. For further matter, with no method to track Artegall and an uncertain future, it begs the question if the end of the quest is worth the means, or if the end exists at all.
If the end exists, then what if Artegall is not at all what Britomart had hoped for? What would she do?
Britomart's Quest describes the entire country being disturbed by war. A country like that is hardly safe for anyone who is not armed. What sort of chaos lies outside of the safety of the towns and cities?
And of course there's mention of a dragon here. Always gotta have one in Celtic tales, eh?
Mysterious tower... What lies within? Granted it might be revealed in the next half of the reading, but making my own outcome is fun as well.
Bibliography
Mythology & Folklore Faerie Queen - Britomart Unit, stories taken from Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary Macleod
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