# Thomas Malory **Domain:** Literature / Arthurian Tradition / English Prose **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Sir Thomas Malory** is the English author conventionally associated with _[[wiki/Le Morte d'Arthur|Le Morte d'Arthur]]_, the major fifteenth-century prose compilation of Arthurian narratives printed by William Caxton in 1485. ## Corpus Relevance The [[wiki/Tristram and Isoud|Tristram and Isoud]] material supplies the textual lineage for the _Westworld_ prop story [[wiki/Sir Rowan and the Lady of Sulon|Sir Rowan and the Lady of Sulon]]. A recovered sword fragment identifies a hidden killer, creating a literary architecture of retained evidence, reconstructed identity and judgment that resonates with the show's computational treatment of persons. ## Sources - [Thomas Malory — Encyclopaedia Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Malory) - [_Le Morte d'Arthur_ — Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1251) ## See Also [[wiki/Le Morte d'Arthur|Le Morte d'Arthur]] · [[wiki/Tristram and Isoud|Tristram and Isoud]] · [[wiki/Sir Marhaus|Sir Marhaus]] · [[wiki/Narrative Bootloader|Narrative Bootloader]]