voluntarily passes the crown to him. In Parke Godwin's 1984 novel Beloved Exile, Constantine is one of several nobles fighting Guenevere, the protagonist, in a bid to succeed Arthur. He is the chief protagonist of the 1990 computer game Spirit of Excalibur; players control Constantine and his allies as they defend the kingdom after Arthur's death. Darrell Schweitzer's 1995 fantasy story "The Epilogue of the Sword" features an ageing Lancelot returning to serve Constantine against the Saxons. Constantine elaborately figures into Arthur Phillips' 2011 novel The Tragedy of Arthur, which centers on an apocryphal Arthurian play attributed to William Shakespeare that the narrator, a fictional version of Phillips, insists is a hoax created by his father. In the play-within-the-novel, Constantine is Guenhera's brother and Arthur's vassal and heir; the novel's narrator claims that Constantine is based on his father's old nemesis, prosecutor Ted Constantine.Phillips, pp. 254, 257–259, 297. In Lucy Holland's 2021 novel, Sistersong,'' Constantine is the son of Cador, King of Dumnonia, and has two sisters, Riva and Sinne, who's story is a retelling of the Twa Sisters. Constantine is born under the name Keyne, and is a trans man mentored by the wizard/witch Myrdhin/Mori. His kingdom is being doubly threatened by Gildas, a traveling Roman priest and magician in this telling, and the Gewisse Saxons. Constantine meets Gwen when her people flee the Saxon; the two fall in love, and presumably marry and rule together as King and Queen after the story ends. In the epilogue, Constantine has left his throne and travels alongside Myrdhin/Mori. Notes References Arthurian characters Legendary British kings Knights of the Round Table Sub-Roman Britons 6th-century English people King Arthur's family