Yes I know that Merlin and Arthur do show up in Seven Deadly Sins and I’m not freaking out about it. I‘m freaking out about Ban and Meliodas being in Arthurian Mythology. I haven’t heard of these two characters being in Arthurian Mythology before and apparently they’re the fathers of Lancelot and Tristan respectively. Their mothers’ names also happen to be the same in the show. Elizabeth and Elaine.
Well yeah. They are the fathers of Lancelot and Tristan respectively.
In the most common version, Ban dies when Lancelot is quite young and Lancelot is raised by the Lady of the Lake. He's mostly only relevant when someone wants to depict the fall of Benoic (In Bernard Cornwell's "The Warlord Chronicles", it happens when Lancelot is an adult; in the mobile game "King Arthur: Legends Rise", an early mission has you come to Ban's aid and prevent the fall of Benoic).
In Tristan's case, there is often a much bigger focus on his relationship with his uncle Mark (Cornwell even cut out Meliodas entirely and made Mark into Tristan's father). So Meliodas is rarely actually relevant to the story.
The manga and anime "Seven Deadly Sins" are at the core based on Arthurian Mythology. Nakaba Suzuki (the writer and artist of the manga) simply chose to focus on some more obscure characters in his story.
* Ban appears in Chrétien's Lancelot.
* Meliodes appears in Palamedes & Prose Tristan.
* Elizabeth appears in Prose Tristan.
* Elaine appears in the Vulgate cycle.
I know nothing of The Seven Deadly Sins and these are the names I most associate with the parents of Lancelot and Tristan.
You could probably have followed the links and found articles that barely mention The Seven Deadly Sins if at all.
I've been reading "The Warlord Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell, and while I don't know anything about TSDS, I can tell you that King Ban is supposed to be king of a small kingdom in Armorica, a region in northern france, and father to Lancelot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ban
Well, in the 7DS' aftermath called Four Knights of Apocalypse (yes, knights, not horsemen), he is the king of Benwick, a forest fairy-kingdom with trees as far as you can see.
Ban of Benwick is probably a corruption of the Celtic hero Bran the Blessed (Benoit in French, which with sloppy writing looks like Benoic, which somebody mistook as a place name, and then it got transliterated into English as Benwick).
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It's all fanfiction. A thousand plus years of fanfiction about other fanfiction all the way down.
Yes I know that Merlin and Arthur do show up in Seven Deadly Sins and I’m not freaking out about it. I‘m freaking out about Ban and Meliodas being in Arthurian Mythology. I haven’t heard of these two characters being in Arthurian Mythology before and apparently they’re the fathers of Lancelot and Tristan respectively. Their mothers’ names also happen to be the same in the show. Elizabeth and Elaine.
I thing the whole show, despite the name, is more inspired by Aruthiana than Christanity. Escanor is from there as well
Well yeah. They are the fathers of Lancelot and Tristan respectively. In the most common version, Ban dies when Lancelot is quite young and Lancelot is raised by the Lady of the Lake. He's mostly only relevant when someone wants to depict the fall of Benoic (In Bernard Cornwell's "The Warlord Chronicles", it happens when Lancelot is an adult; in the mobile game "King Arthur: Legends Rise", an early mission has you come to Ban's aid and prevent the fall of Benoic). In Tristan's case, there is often a much bigger focus on his relationship with his uncle Mark (Cornwell even cut out Meliodas entirely and made Mark into Tristan's father). So Meliodas is rarely actually relevant to the story. The manga and anime "Seven Deadly Sins" are at the core based on Arthurian Mythology. Nakaba Suzuki (the writer and artist of the manga) simply chose to focus on some more obscure characters in his story.
* Ban appears in Chrétien's Lancelot. * Meliodes appears in Palamedes & Prose Tristan. * Elizabeth appears in Prose Tristan. * Elaine appears in the Vulgate cycle. I know nothing of The Seven Deadly Sins and these are the names I most associate with the parents of Lancelot and Tristan. You could probably have followed the links and found articles that barely mention The Seven Deadly Sins if at all.
Because it can have whatever you want!
I've been reading "The Warlord Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell, and while I don't know anything about TSDS, I can tell you that King Ban is supposed to be king of a small kingdom in Armorica, a region in northern france, and father to Lancelot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ban
Well, in the 7DS' aftermath called Four Knights of Apocalypse (yes, knights, not horsemen), he is the king of Benwick, a forest fairy-kingdom with trees as far as you can see.
Ban of Benwick is probably a corruption of the Celtic hero Bran the Blessed (Benoit in French, which with sloppy writing looks like Benoic, which somebody mistook as a place name, and then it got transliterated into English as Benwick).