King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table, by Andrew Lang. Link to reading here.
Character sketches:
Tor: Tor has a bit of the "step-child" syndrome. He doesn't feel as though he fits in his family, and with 13 brothers, it can be hard to. Tor has always felt that he doesn't truly belong in his family, but his parents promise him he is indeed their child. He doesn't have the same characteristics as the rest of his brothers do. He doesn't even really look like them, while the rest of them are each others' spitting image and their father's. He also didn't have the same dreams and goals as his brothers. They were aspiring to work with their hands and perform hard labor their entire lives. Tor wants to have honor; he wants to achieve something important. It isn't until later that he finds out from Merlin, the magician, that he comes from a somewhat royal family. His father was King Pellinore. Tor thought that he couldn't have received better news.
King Pellinore: King Pellinore was a somewhat awful person. He was entitled, and he always had been. He had gotten what he wanted when he wanted for as long as he could remember. And why shouldn't he? He was royalty, after all. He also thought of himself as quite the ladies' man. He thought women were falling at his feet. He definitely thought this way when he forced himself on Tor's mother. He viewed life as a giant party; he took nothing seriously. He had made a bet that he could catch up to the elusive Questing Beast, which is what he was attempting to do when he met King Arthur. He couldn't really stand Arthur. He thought he was too nice and it rubbed him the wrong way.
Aries: He was Tor's adoptive father. He raised Tor the best he could, considering the enormous amount of children he had. He also tried his hardest to make Tor feel welcome in their family, yet always had the sense that he always felt a degree of separation. Aries and Tor's mother didn't want to tell him that he was not Aries' son. But, the older they got, the more distinctive the differences between Tor and the other sons became. They didn't know what to do to assuage this, until Tor asks to be taken to King Arthur's court to request to become a knight. With a heavy but contented heart, Aries complies.
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