Parchment of Virtues
Summary
The Parchment of Virtues was a document written by the Ascended Atlantian Ancient Morgan Le Fay (Ganos Lal) to guide those who sought the Sangreal, a weapon that could eliminate Ascended Beings and which had come to be known in Arthurian legends as the Holy Grail. (10.10 "The Quest Part 1")
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The Parchment of Virtues was written in the Ancients' language by Morgan Le Fay. It read:
- Only those of virtue true may win the prize concealed beyond the reach of the flawed and tainted. The Sangreal shall instead belong to he who speaks the guardian's name. Prudence, wisdom, charity, kindness, and faith. Let these be your guide on this perilous quest.
The document was kept in a library on a planet on which it was said that Morgan Le Fay had hidden the weapon after taking it from Merlin. Merlin's special group of men, Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, started on a quest to find the weapon about the same time that Merlin disappeared from his sanctuary on the planet with the village Camelot.
SG-1 found Morgan's planet and began their search there by visiting the village's library where the Parchment was kept. Not long after reading it, an Ori invasion force burned it and all other documents from the library, including an accompanying map which was supposed to lead to the Sangreal.
As SG-1 began their quest (accompanied by Adria and Ba'al), they discovered that the challenges Morgan placed before them correlated to the virtues listed in the Parchment. Prudence got them through a time distortion maze, charity got them out of an encircling force field, kindness led them to a series of secret corridors by helping a lost child (a holographic projection), wisdom got them safely through those corridors by correctly answering riddles which were written in Ancient, and faith got them through a wall of fire and into the large cavern which appeared to be the resting place of the Sangreal. When Daniel tried to pick up the glowing object, he realized that it was a hologram. They had to face one more challenge: the guardian — a fire-breathing dragon. If they spoke its name, the Parchment had promised that they'd be the possessors of the Sangreal.
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