Adaptation Expansion: Like any other variant on Arthurian legend.The Mists of Avalon provides examples of: This was made into a miniseries in 2001, starring Julianna Margulies ( ER, The Good Wife) as Morgaine, Anjelica Huston ( The Addams Family) as Viviane, and Joan Allen ( Pleasantville) as Morgause. Plots to put her husband or one of her sons on the throne.
Morgause: Sister to Igraine and Viviane.
Manipulates things behind the scenes, but does everything to try to save Avalon.
Viviane: High Priestess of Avalon and sister to Igraine and Morgause. Caught between oaths to the Lady of Avalon and the spread of Christianity. Daughter of Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, and Igraine. Morgaine: Protagonist, priestess of Avalon, and half-sister to Arthur. The novels which they wrote together include: The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, and Priestess of Avalon. Near the end of her life, Bradley began collaborating on them with Diana Paxson, who took over the series after her death. Several books came after this, all of them prequels. The narrator is Morgaine (Morgan le Fay or Morgan of the Fairies), who tells Arthur's tale (and her own) against the backdrop of approaching war with Rome and the Saxons, as well as religious war, as Christianity threatens to destroy Avalon and Goddess worship in Britain. It is notable among the many, many variants in Arthurian Legend due to its approach - the story is told not only through the eyes of a woman but through the eyes of one of the biggest villains in the legends. Published in 1983, The Mists of Avalon is a novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. 
From left to right, Viviane, Morgaine, and Morgause
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