

Arturia's abilities to ride a Motor Bike, not thinking that the Airplane she flew in on was magic) we could suspect that Mordred is made aware of her Legend. Since we know that when a Servant is summoned they are given extra knowledge to adapt to the time period (ie. the Arthurian Legends in the Nasuverse is still closely related to ours and in Fate/Stay Night when Shirou discovers Arturia's identity as King Arthur he does talk about how the Legend of King Arthur wasn't clear on who the King was pointing out that some legends suggested that King Arthur was a group of people. 8 - Fate/Apocrypha interview with Yuichiro Higashide & Nasu Kinoko, p.080Īs for why, in universe, Mordred refers to herself as Arturia's "Son" she could be well aware of her own legend.

Source: Saber of Red > References > Citation 4: TYPE-MOON Ace Vol. Higashide: Saber was originally going to be male like the legend, but it was thought that having two male characters look feminine, the other being Rider of Black, was too much. well, I guess a certain kind of person would consider it a prize, anyway. A man with that sort of outward appearance is. Source: Saber of Red > Development > Creation and Conception As Saber of Red Mordred was originally going to be male like the legend, but it was thought that having two male characters look feminine, the other being Rider of Black, was too much. It was Takeuchi's idea to put Mordred as a new addition to Fate/Apocrypha. At that time Kinoko Nasu hadn't decided on Mordred's gender until Fate/Apocrypha.

Mordred first made an appearance in Type-moon's Character material book, with Takashi Takeuchi responsible for the character design. In regards to Mordred, originally when Mordred first appeared in one of the Type-Moon Character material books Kinoko Nasu originally hadn't decided what Mordred's gender would be until Fate/Apocrypha and originally was siding on keeping Mordred male, however after Takashi Takeuchi put the idea of adding Mordred into the lineup it was thought 2 feminine male characters would be too much Source: Saber (Fate/Stay Night) > Development > Creation and Conception Takashi Takeuchi convinced to Nasu to change the gender of Saber but the essential theme had not been changed, it's the story about legendary heroes and "a boy meets a girl." Kinoko Nasu's original story of Fate, Saber and Shirou were opposite gender to now. However it was Takashi Takeuchi, the artist of Fate/Stay Night who convinced Kinoko Nasu to change Arthur's Gender Originally the roles of Shirou and Arturia were the opposite genders as the original concept for Fate/Stay Night (now as Fate/Prototype) had Ayaka Sajyou as the Master of Arthur with Gilgamesh also vying for Ayaka's heart. Why did they gender swap these characters to women
