 Shea and Chalmers are instrumental in revealing this conspiracy to the knights and assisting in its overthrow.In the process, Belphebe and Florimel of Faerie become respectively the wives of Shea and Chalmers and accompany them on further adventures in other worlds of myth and fantasy.A considerable part of Elizabeth Bear's "Promethean Age" series  takes place in a Kingdom of Faerie which is loosely based on the one described by Spencer.