Word: hadrian
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...weather is always inclement, the protagonists are all muddy when they're not bloody, King Arthur's Christianity is muscular but joyless, and Guinevere is often daubed with blue paint. No, folks, we're not in Camelot anymore. Mostly we're in and around Hadrian's Wall in Britain at the dawn of the Dark Ages, with the Romans in retreat, the Saxons advancing and the severely downsized Knights of the Round Table defending civilization as they know it. Conditions in this world are not visibly much different from barbarism. Life on this frontier is rude and basic, though Guinevere...
...leave things to the end. The work will be done. A relaxed national character is not what's causing most delays. Protests are the problem. Dig nearly anywhere in Athens and you come across antiquities, like the fragments from a second century A.D. Roman aqueduct built by the Emperor Hadrian discovered on the site of the Olympic Village. After delays caused by negotiations with the department of antiquities, Olympic officials decided to include the ancient ruins as part of the village's design. Want to build a sailing center on the site of the Battle of Marathon? Not so fast...