An honest account of what you brokeA candle for the one the family could not holdThe name of a dead man spoken without a verdictA thing broken and not repairedSilence at a grave
Invocation Approach
Tone
Cold clear uneasy
Address
MordredMedrautThe TraitorSon of the King
Relationship
The price of the peace the king made
Warning
He is the thing the court produced and then called foreign
Resonance
The disinherited those written off by a family broken things that were coming anyway
Symbols
CamlannThe borrowed crownThe black bannerThe shipThe last battle
Mythology Summary
Medraut is named only as falling with Arthur at Camlann in the Annales Cambriae (tenth century), with no hint that he was a traitor; the Historia Brittonum makes him Arthur's nephew. Geoffrey of Monmouth turns him into the regent who takes the crown and the queen while Arthur is across the sea, and Arthur kills him at Camlann and is himself mortally wounded. The Vulgate and Malory add the incest — Mordred is Arthur's son by his half-sister Morgause, conceived at the May feast — and the May-day massacre of the newborns meant to prevent the prophecy. The treason and the incest are later layers, not the earliest record.
Modern Practice
Not a figure to invoke for anything you want to succeed. The only honest practice is the inventory: what did your household produce and then disown, what are you calling foreign that came from inside, and what is the reckoning you are postponing. A candle, an account written down, no request.