From the very beginning of the thirteenth century the great works of the Master were followed by a number of other Arthurian romances which, despite some fine individual details, reveal all too clearly that they are not independent creations or worthy successors in the great tradition of Arthurian epic, but merely imitations, and limited for the most part to the imitation of narrative elements. Overworked motifs and sequences of motifs are repeated indiscriminately, rearranged and sometimes even cobbled together in utter confusion to create epics that often grow to a considerable length. New characters are introduced to be assigned the plots and events of the classical works. Adventures follow upon adventures, but there is usually no attempt to restructure the material in a sensible way nor even to give it a meaningful wider context.