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* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: [[Merlin]] is only half human. His father may have a been a [[The Fair Folk|Fae]], [[The Devil]], an incubus, or [[The Messiah|no one]].
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: Most prominently, Galahad, son of Lancelot. Sometimes Mordred, [[Depending on the Writer]]. Though he is conceived out of wedlock, Arthur himself is not technically a bastard since his father marries his mother before his birth. In Malory, Arthur also fathers a son named Borre before he meets Guinevere - later a knight of the Round Table.
* [[Heroic Lineage]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515112657/http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/mostyn117.html Mostyn MS. 117] and ''Bonedd y Saint'', Welsh manuscripts dating from the 12th-13th century, describe Arthur as a direct descendant of Llŷr Lledyeith, who also fathered the heroes of the [[Mabinogion]].
** This has also been [[Invoked Trope]] by "descendants" of Arthur on many occasions. Most notably, Henry VII following the Wars of the Roses, who named his first-born son Arthur and claimed him to be the prophesied [[King in the Mountain|second coming]] who would herald the Golden Age. [[What Could Have Been|Might have been cool if he'd lived longer than his dad]], but we got Henry VIII instead.
* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: Possibly Mordred. He is first mentioned (as Medraut) in the 10th-century ''Annales Cambriae'' (Annals of Wales) as having been killed in the battle of Camlaun along with Arthur, but the entry is ambiguous as to whether they were fighting on opposing sides.
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