Exhuming King Arthur: Medieval Myth / Modern Machiavellian ManualWhy Camelot Died & How To Quest in a Temporal Landscape Herein I propose that the quest of Arthurian legend was never about romantic chivalry—it is instead a cautionary tale on power politics waged in a dying temporal order. Here I set out to maintain strict fidelity to the physics of continuity. This paper asserts that Arthur fell because he was insufficiently ruthless in defense of sovereignty. Survival demands calculated, unapologetic boundary enforcement—Machiavellian fidelity to the substrate. The Lady of the Lake did not gift Excalibur for decoration; she armed a sovereign to hold the land through whatever means necessary. Arthur failed in his duty to the country he forged and to his kin whom he recruited to his Bible cause. He traded the mantle of divine sovereign to a blurring of the responsibilites of kingship and spiritual abdication of his throne. In the wasteland of nationhood, sentimentality is suicide. The dual blade:Why Camelot Died — internal betrayal of the sacred marriage, refusal to evolve fraternity into heirs, acceptance of entropy under virtue masks.How To Quest — active, ruthless reclamation of the timeline through Galahad-standard purity and purge. BOSU-BOSS FIELD GUIDE: "How To Knight."This is the knight's catechism—the portable doctrine for becoming the modern Galahad in high-entropy terrain.To knight oneself is to swear the oath, draw the blade of intellect, and execute without hesitation.DOI:Darwinian EvolutionEntropy Inertia