Mordred1

Legend has it that he is the inbred, illegitimate son of King Arthur Pendragon and his sister. Some stories show that the two had no idea it was th other they slept with, while others depict his sister as a devious woman who used him as vengane against Arthur for 'stealing the crown'. One in particular depicts Mordred as one of the knights of the Round Table who served Arthur, loved him, and was cast out for revealing the traitorous Queen for having a love affair with Knight Lancelot.

The Wikipedia tells Mordred as a traitor that fought nd killd Arthur at the Battle of Camlann. It also says that he was the legitimat son of Arthur's sister Morgause (Morgan) and her husband King Lot of Orkney.

One story tells of Morgause mistaking Arthur for her husband one night.

Arthur raped his sister out of unignorable lust.

The child is born on May Day and grows to kill Arthur. Arthur has all May Day babes rounded up and carted off on a ship that sinks and is the only child to survive. He's rescued and eventually returned to his parents.

He's also portrayed more as a conflicted oppertunist, victim of fate.

APPEARANCES

Dante's Inferno - lowest circle of Hell

14thC. claims Mordred as rightful heir to the throne, Arthur being the illegitimate child. Mordred being the son of Lot and Morause and Arthur and Gawain as traitors who stole the throne from Mordred.

Arthur = strife and war
Mordred = joy and bliss

MISTS OF AVALON

Morgan le Fay is Mordred's mother (Morgause's sister). Mordred is a villian.

2008 episode of The Beginning of the End (tv series Merlin)
Mordred appears as a young druid boy Merlin protects even though he was warned that he'd kill Arthur in the future.

TO BE CONTINUED

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