ANIME CHARACTER (MELIODAS)

                             (MELIODAS)

                     MELIODAS IS A DEMON IN ARTHURIAN LEGEND AND ALSO THE FATHER OF TRISTAN IN THE PROSE TRISTAN AND SUBSEQUANT ACCOUNTS INCLUDING THE POST-VULGATE CYCLE,PALAMEDES,AND THE COMPILATION OF RUSTICHELLO DA PISA. HE WAS THE SECOND KING OF LYONESSE,ACCORDING TO THE LATE ITALIAN ROMANCE LL DUI TRISTANI,SON OF FELEC AND VASSAL OF KING MARK.MELIODAS' FIST WIFE,ELIZABETH,WHO BORE TRISTAN, WAS MARK'S SISTER, AND HIS BEST FRIEND IS NAMED BAN,THE FATHER OF LANCLOT.

                              (ABOUT ANIME SERIES)

   

                  THE FRENCH ROMANCE MELIODAS IS DRIVED FROM THE WORK ORIGINALLY ENTITLED PALAMEDES, A SERIES OF TALES BASED ON THE TRISTAN AND LANCELOT-GRAIL LEGENDS BUT GOING BACK TO THE HEROES OF THE PREVLOUS GENERATION.UTHER PENDRAON, FATHER OF ARTHUR IS STILL ALIVE,AND SO ARE THE OF EREC AND TRISTAN, THE COMPLIATION OF RUSTICHELLO DO PISA OR RUSTICIEN DE PISE, IS A LATER REWORKING OF THE LEGEND FOCUSING ON MELIODUS AS THE CENTRAL CHARACTER SOME VERSIONS ,INCLUDING THE EARLY 16TH-CENTURY PRINTED EDITION PRODUSED IN PARIS, ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS,WITH THE FIRST ENTITLED MELIADUS DE LEONNOYS AND THE SECOND GYRON LE COURTOYS.

        

                    THE FIRST PART BEGINS WITH THE ARRIVAL OF ESCLABOR, FATHER OF PALAMEDES AT THE COURT OF THE YOUNG ARTHUR,AND LATER, OF PHARAMOND. KING OF THE FRANKS AND THE CHEVALIER SANS PEUR. MELIODAS IS DEPICTED AS THE LEADER OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS,IN BOTH THE ANIME AND MANGA VERSIONS OF NAKABA SUZUKI'S THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS. IN THE SERIES ,MELIODAS IS DEPICTED AS SHORT, WITH BLOND HAIR AND VERY- YOUTHFUL APPEARANCE,DESPITE BEING OVER THOUSANDS OF YEAR OLD.