Famous Ancestor: Difference between revisions

* [[Charles Stross]]' ''Merchant Prince'' series has an example similar to the Charlie Bone series: Worldwalking is enabled a recessive gene which, 300 years ago, was possessed by exactly one man. All the worldwalkers now are therefore not only descended from him, but descended from him through both parents.

* Vimes from [[Discworld]] is a descendant of 'Stoneface' Vimes, who beheaded the last king of Ankh-Morpork, Lorenzo the Kind (He, emphasis, ''wasn't''.) Vimes seems quite proud of this.

'''Vimes:''' I've always thought that was a bit unfair. I mean, he only killed ''one'' king. It's not as if it was a ''hobby''. }}

* [[Harry Potter|Voldemort]] is a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, from whom he gets his ability to speak to snakes. He transferred this power to Harry by accident. If the ring is any indication, he's also the descendant of Cadmus Peverell.

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Subverted in "Ayla and the Late Trevor James Goodkind", the intro novel for Phase in the [[Whateley Universe]]. Trevor, a scion of one of the richest, most powerful families on the planet, scoffs at the filthy rich Walcutts:

* Lenneth Archimedes from ''[[Fate Nuovo Guerra]]'' combines this with [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]. As her last name implies, she is descended from Archimedes, who turns out to have been a magus, and was able to pass his magical research to a son (who continued the bloodline) before the Romans caught and killed him. Given how magi from the [[Nasuverse]] operate, direct descent is the norm, and so her claims are more valid than most.