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BrainFireBob:
Theory: The castle was Merlin's, and it is a fortress not because he needed a paranoid bolthole, but to have a shortcut to the island, either direct or opening on the same location in the Nevernever.

The spirit intended to run the castle is Alfred's counterpart

Mira:

--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on August 01, 2022, 10:01:07 PM ---Theory: The castle was Merlin's, and it is a fortress not because he needed a paranoid bolthole, but to have a shortcut to the island, either direct or opening on the same location in the Nevernever.

The spirit intended to run the castle is Alfred's counterpart

--- End quote ---

I like it! ;D

Conspiracy Theorist:
WOJ says it isn’t Camelot, and should not be congruent to Demonreach, it is not a prison, it is currently housing refugees.

There is a big difference between a fortress and a prison.

Mira:

--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 02, 2022, 01:41:01 AM ---WOJ says it isn’t Camelot, and should not be congruent to Demonreach, it is not a prison, it is currently housing refugees.

There is a big difference between a fortress and a prison.

--- End quote ---

King Arthur lived in Camelot, Merlin was around, but that doesn't mean he lived there.  Or it could have been Arthur's castle and Merlin put the wards in..

Conspiracy Theorist:
I rather think it may be Hermitage Castle from Wikipedia

Hermitage Castle, home of Robin Redcap
The redcap familiar of Lord William de Soulis, called "Robin Redcap", is said to have wrought much harm and ruin in the lands of his master's dwelling, Hermitage Castle. Ultimately, William was (according to legend) taken to the Ninestane Rig, a stone circle near the castle, then wrapped in lead and boiled to death.[9] In reality, William de Soulis was imprisoned in Dumbarton Castle and died there, following his confessed complicity in the conspiracy against Robert the Bruce in 1320.

Sir Walter Scott in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border records a ballad written by John Leyden entitled "Lord Soulis" in which Redcap has granted his master safety against weapons and lives in a chest secured by three strong padlocks.[10] Scott states that the Redcap is a class of spirits that haunts old castles, and that every ruined tower in the south of Scotland was supposed to have one of these spirits residing within.

Sir Walter Scott appears to have influenced Butcher especially Mistrelay of the Scottish Border (Tam Lin etc) deSoulis looks like a former Winter Knight.

Arthurian you are talkin 4th Century AD the Castle is likely to be not that old.

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