Hello fellow Grailquesters. As you all know, I Trevrezent, am very well versed with the workings of the almighty lord. Furthermore, I am sure that everything he does is fairly mysterious, and is always done for a very precise reason. So, when I saw what our mutual friend Gawain wrote regarding how he believed that Dan Brown was given credit for Baigent's theories, I wasn't quite sure what to think. I have now come to the conclusion that the grail is given to noble men, (Wolfram de Eschenbach regarding his work Parzival, pg 293) and would therefore not give fame and riches to someone who, according to baigent, took it from someone else.
Make sense? No, most likely not. I guess it just takes a very good understanding of the grail to understand baigent.
-Treverezent-
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Master Trevrezent, while it is certainly not my intention to question the judgment of one so learned as yourself, I must respectfully assure you that there has been at least one instance in which this "grail" may have been used to the advantage of a remarkably ignoble man. If the cauldron formerly owned by my dear brother Bran is indeed a grail, then certainly when my ex-husband Matholwch used it to destroy my people he was using it for ill and not for good. Dear Bran had only mustered his soldiers in order to save me from my in-laws' persecution. Although, not knowing Mr. Brown, I cannot possibly form any accurate assumptions of his character, I can assure you that the fame and fortune he has gained because of the grail must not necessarily reflect any particular aspect of his nature--except, possibly, for his cleverness.
Branwen, forgive me for my misquided words. I do agree with you to a certain extent, especially with the fact that Brown was clever enough to take advantage in a field where no one had excelled. (writing fiction based on possible historical truths) I am still unsure as to whether or not the Grail your brother owned is the same grail about which I speak of. In the story of Parzival, where I am written about, Wolfram talks about the Grail being a stone. I am fairly certain that the grail Bran had in his posession was not quite the same thing, although it may have meant the same to him.
I Perronik, also believe that the grail belongs to noble men. After all, if the grail represents the divine and everlasting life, it should be given to a man who has the faith of God strong inside of him, and who's willing to sacrifice himself for the good of man. We cannot have knights who are not noble, chasing after the grail because we don't know what kind of chaos that would bring to the world if that happened.
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