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== [[Oral Tradition]] ==
* Many variants of the Arthur myth have King Arthur raised as a much lower-ranked if not common boy before proving himself in battle and being told of his lineage, or finding out upon the whole "sword in the stone" business. <!-- MOD: ''Fate/stay night'' is not Oral Tradition. See Gender Flip/Visual Novels for the content related to that series that used to be here.
* [[Older Than Feudalism]], from [[Classical Mythology]]: Paris or [[Oedipus the King]], who were both prophesied to bring destruction and so were brought up as peasants instead of princes. Naturally, [[You Can't Fight Fate|this didn't thwart their destinies.]] Oedipus's revelation was possibly the biggest tragic [[Heroic BSOD]] in theater ever, and led him to gouge his own eyes out.
** The play about Oedipus has him raised by another king. His hamartia ([[Tragic Flaw]]) was his uncontrollable temper that drove him to club his father to death at the crossroad, to disregard Teiresias, and to jump to conclusions about Creon. His I Am Who? moment segued beautifully into his [[Heroic BSOD]] and exile.
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* And Scion's progenitor-game ''[[Exalted]]'' leaves the groundwork of this available to every single last one of the Celestial Exalted, each of whom has lived lifetime after lifetime of epic awesome heroism (in the classical Greek sense), but only allows the current incarnation at best partial recall of his legacy
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'': The main character is revealed to be {{spoiler|a child of Bhaal, god of murder}}.
* ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good & Evil]]'': With very little in the way of fore-warning, game throws you this curve-ball in the last act. {{spoiler|Jade is really Shauni, some kind of being with supernatural powers that connect her to the Dom-Z Leader. It's likely that this [[Shocking Swerve]] will be gone into with more detail in the sequel we will never see.}}
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* Inverted in ''[[Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective|Ghost Trick]]''. The information Sissel gathered on himself is being contradicted and discredited bit by bit, until he (and the player) thinks he knows nothing. Turns out he's wrong. He ''does'' know something about himself that's so basic that it's not worth noting {{spoiler|namely, that he's the dead guy in the red suit}}... then ''that'' gets overturned in an amazingly decisive way! It's that kind of game.
* ''[[Dark Souls]]'', according to both [[Ancient Keeper|Darkstalker Kaathe]] and [[Word of God]], humanity in it's entirety is descended from the Furtive Pygmy, and as a result inherited a piece of the titular Dark Soul through him. This means every human is a descendant of a god and has access to his powers like the [[Vampiric Draining|Dark Hand.]]
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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