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The Road To Avalon

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The Road To Avalon	comment	The Road to Avalon is a 1988 historical fantasy novel by Joan Wolf. The story is an adaptation of Arthurian Legend but with most of the fantastic elements taken out and a heavy focus on romance along with the requisite battles and wars.Set in post-Roman Britain, it casts King Arthur and Morgan le Fay as Star-Crossed Lovers, each other's one true loves who are held back by duty and their blood-related family ties. Morgan, usually the archvillainess of the legend, is here very much not.Meanwhile, Arthur struggles to unify the various squabbling Celtic tribes and petty kingdoms in the face of the advancing Anglo-Saxons, and it gets even more complicated when he has to marry. Given the legend, it doesn't end happily, but in this telling it's less the usual main players' fault than it is due to malice from outside and within and the whims of fate.Part of a loose Thematic Series called the "Dark Ages of Britain" or "Warrior Kings" trilogy, the other two novels not being Arthurian. The second book Born of the Sun (1989) is set many decades later and features a romance between a Celtic princess and a Saxon bastard prince. The third book The Edge of Light (1990) is set centuries later and features the romance between another legendary but definitely historical king, Alfred the Great, and his eventual queen Elswyth.
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The Road To Avalon / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The Road To Avalon / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Gwenhwyfar first beds Bedwyr after his Roaring Rampage of Rescue soon after Meliagrance waylays her.
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The Road To Avalon / int_1872821f	type	Related Differently in the Adaptation
The Road To Avalon / int_1872821f	comment	Related Differently in the Adaptation: Arthur, Morgan and Morgause are still blood related, but they're not his sisters.
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The Road To Avalon / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
The Road To Avalon / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Morgan studies Roman and folk-style medicine from a young age and eventually becomes known as a healer. As the "Lady of Avalon" she tends to Arthur's wounded men sent her way and to others, and her skills lead to rumors of her being magical.
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The Road To Avalon / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
The Road To Avalon / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: The premise is Morgan and Arthur having one. They grow up together Like Brother and Sister, but as they hit puberty this develops into romance and they only find out they're related after both have fallen for the other.
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The Road To Avalon / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Road To Avalon / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: As Gwenhwyfar angsts over not getting pregnant, Arthur says that it might be due to him, not (only) her. Unknown to him at this point, he has already sired a son but that was years earlier, and while both of them start or resume sleeping with other people, nobody gets (or can get) pregnant again, so it's unclear if Arthur is indeed (mostly) infertile himself.
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The Road To Avalon / int_2084f742	type	New Child Left Behind
The Road To Avalon / int_2084f742	comment	New Child Left Behind: Merlin mulls over whether Morgause can plausibly pass off Morgan's baby as hers and Lot's using this rationale once it's born, as Lot is currently off at war challenging Arthur. He decides it's safer for Lot to be disposed of, and tells Cai to make sure he dies.
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The Road To Avalon / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Road To Avalon / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Conversely, Agravaine is made even more villainous than in the legend as he takes on Mordred's snake-in-the-grass qualities.
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The Road To Avalon / int_21776103	type	Incest Is Relative
The Road To Avalon / int_21776103	comment	Incest Is Relative: Morgan is Arthur's mother's half-sister making him his half-aunt and they are genetically equivalent to first cousins.
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The Road To Avalon / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
The Road To Avalon / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: Merlin is Morgan's father by Nimue and Arthur's maternal grandfather. Igraine and Morgause are his elder daughters by a first wife. Pellinore becomes Morgause's second husband and the stepfather of her sons after Lot's death. Nimue is a granddaughter of the British emperor Maximus.
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The Road To Avalon / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Road To Avalon / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Arthur and Bedwyr first meet as young teens at a fair where Bedwyr's people are selling horses (while Merlin's people are selling Avalon's apples), and after Arthur impresses Bedwyr with horse-riding, they get into a fight with muggers and quickly become friends after fighting them off.
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The Road To Avalon / int_25c7875f	type	Practically Different Generations
The Road To Avalon / int_25c7875f	comment	Practically Different Generations: Morgan is one year younger than her own half-nephew Arthur and a lot younger than her eldest half-sister Igraine. Even the middle sister Morgause is a lot younger than Igraine as well.
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The Road To Avalon / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Road To Avalon / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Morgan jokes to Arthur that she should start wearing magician's robes due to her reputation, and Arthur jokes back that he should set her up as his court mage. Bedwyr's ladies' man ways eventually leads to him getting Gwenhwyfar's servant girl named Elaine pregnant, though he says he was seduced. Elaine is sent home to bear the child i.e. Galahad since Bedwyr is the Lancelot equivalent. Arthur asks Morgause to continue posing as Mordred's birth mother after she and Arthur supposedly had an affair, in order to protect Morgan, and she readily agrees.
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The Road To Avalon / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Road To Avalon / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Agravaine has a handsome and charming exterior, but is really a nigh-complete monster.
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The Road To Avalon / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Road To Avalon / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Uther and Igraine sending off the baby Arthur to be raised by peasants for reasons. Downplayed with Morgan and baby Mordred, as while she entrusts him to her sister she often visits them in Lothian and Mordred grows up fond of his "aunt".
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The Road To Avalon / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
The Road To Avalon / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: Mordred is groomed to be Arthur's heir and trains with the young nobles his age, but it soon becomes apparent to the older characters that he's not the natural leader Arthur is (while not a mere "follower" either, he's more of a "dreamer" as Bedwyr says). He doesn't slack off training to be a warrior and statesman, but it's clear that his heart isn't in it, and would rather do other stuff like playing music. He's left in charge along with Gwenhwyfar when Arthur goes off to war in Gaul to support an ally, to test his mettle.
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The Road To Avalon / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
The Road To Avalon / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: Uther and later Arthur having no children with their wives is an issue as they need an heir for stability.
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The Road To Avalon / int_2dff6b95	type	Two Guys and a Girl
The Road To Avalon / int_2dff6b95	comment	Two Guys and a Girl: Arthur, Cai and Morgan grow up together in Avalon like this but the focus is on Arthur and Morgan. They're very close in age with Cai only being one year older than Arthur and two years older than Morgan.
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The Road To Avalon / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
The Road To Avalon / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: When Gwenhwyfar first meets Morgan around a year after marrying Arthur, she's struck by her looks, as they look the same age (late teens) even though she's heard Morgan is around Arthur's age (mid/late 20s).
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The Road To Avalon / int_2f9a0236	type	Your Son All Along
The Road To Avalon / int_2f9a0236	comment	Your Son All Along: When Gawain first joins Arthur, he's struck by the king looking exactly like his youngest brother Mordred. Arthur is yet unaware that he has a son so he just says that they must both take after Igraine, which Gawain accepts. Years later, Arthur finally meets Mordred in person and sees that he also strongly takes after Uther, and once told his age, immediately realizes the youth must be his and Morgan's son.
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The Road To Avalon / int_3de32c52	type	Unrelated in the Adaptation
The Road To Avalon / int_3de32c52	comment	Unrelated in the Adaptation: Ector and Cai are Merlin's steward and his son, technically not Arthur's foster father and foster brother since Merlin is his overall guardian (and unbeknownst to him his grandfather). Gareth is Arthur and later Bedwyr's body servant (i.e. "squire") instead of being one of Morgause's children.
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The Road To Avalon / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Road To Avalon / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Morgan and Mordred were both villains in the original myth.
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The Road To Avalon / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Road To Avalon / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Agravaine is defeated, but Arthur is killed.
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The Road To Avalon / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Road To Avalon / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Gwenhwyfar is waylaid and kidnapped briefly by an overly-smitten admirer, a tribal chief named Meliagrance, who overestimates his own capacity to challenge Arthur. Bedwyr saves her.
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The Road To Avalon / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
The Road To Avalon / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Morgan becomes pregnant with Arthur's child when they are 15/16.
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The Road To Avalon / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
The Road To Avalon / int_4e3dee88	comment	Their First Time: Morgan and Arthur first sleep together after being caught in the rain and taking shelter in a barn, where they take off their wet clothes and stuff happens. Years later, Arthur can't help thinking back to it during his wedding night with Gwenhwyfar, though it goes well enough for them that time too.
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The Road To Avalon / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Road To Avalon / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Arthur reacts angrily when a nobleman asks for permission to marry Morgan after curing his boils.
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The Road To Avalon / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
The Road To Avalon / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Arthur is 26 and Gwenhwyfar is 17 when their arranged marriage happens, and she genuinely falls in love with him though he only comes to see her as a dear comrade at most. This leads her into the arms of Arthur's cavalry commander Bedwyr, who is around his age. In the backstory this was implied with Merlin and Nimue.
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The Road To Avalon / int_59d7839f	type	Animal Lover
The Road To Avalon / int_59d7839f	comment	Animal Lover: Morgan tends to take care of stray and sick animals she finds out in the fields and forests. She first bonds with Arthur over her dog Horatius and years later she gifts Arthur a dog named Cabal. She does a bit of horse whispering with Bedwyr's horse and he thinks it's magic.
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The Road To Avalon / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Road To Avalon / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: After Agravaine's treachery against Arthur is revealed and he's in open rebellion, Mordred is fully aware that he's only being used to prop up Agravaine's cause as the rightful heir himself, basically held hostage by his own brother.
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The Road To Avalon / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
The Road To Avalon / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: Morgan and Arthur only find out they're blood-related after they've fallen in love and become intimate. Even then, it's not just them being related since Kissing Cousins is acceptable, but she's his aunt.
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The Road To Avalon / int_5d9bdbb1	type	World's Strongest Man
The Road To Avalon / int_5d9bdbb1	comment	World's Strongest Man: Bedwyr is this, being a matchless warrior in combat and at one point beating a bunch of Saxons in arm-wrestling when Arthur negotiates a treaty.
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The Road To Avalon / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Road To Avalon / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Used from time to time and indicated with the characters's ages among other devices.
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The Road To Avalon / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
The Road To Avalon / int_60ea2a89	comment	Starter Villain: Lot has his eyes on the high kingship and challenges Uther after he presents Arthur to the chiefs and kings as his heir, and Arthur puts down his rebellion.
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The Road To Avalon / int_616a4c	type	Give the Baby a Father
The Road To Avalon / int_616a4c	comment	Give the Baby a Father: After Morgan learns she's pregnant, Merlin suggests that she marry Cai - who will probably raise her and Arthur's child as his own without complaint - but she refuses to marry anyone but Arthur.
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The Road To Avalon / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Road To Avalon / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Arthur dies to shield Mordred.
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The Road To Avalon / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Road To Avalon / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Both of Merlin's wives are long dead by the time the story happens, with Nimue said to have died giving birth to Morgan.
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The Road To Avalon / int_69e4f7b7	type	Historical Fantasy
The Road To Avalon / int_69e4f7b7	comment	Historical Fantasy: It's a fairly realistic idea of how a story inspiring the Arthurian Legend could have happened in reality and the Psychic Link is the only fantasy element differentiating it from historical fiction.
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The Road To Avalon / int_69e690c2	type	Romance Novel
The Road To Avalon / int_69e690c2	comment	Romance Novel: Has strong elements of this, due to the Morgan/Arthur ship angle. Many of the author's other works are romance books. This Arthurian fantasy stands out among others for mixing the subject matter plus the historical-style approach in the "historical romance" mold.
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The Road To Avalon / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Road To Avalon / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Mordred successfully sneaks away from Agravaine's rebel army and is fleeing to Gaul like Morgan and Arthur advised him to, when he suddenly decides he desperately has to see his father one last time, if for no other apparent reason than to apologize... and runs right into the ongoing battle.
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The Road To Avalon / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Road To Avalon / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike the legend which ends in a slaughter for most named characters, here the only named characters who explicitly die in the end are Agravaine and Arthur, with most if not virtually all of Arthur's forces implied to be intact and Cai, Gawain and Mordred all explicitly left alive (Kay and Gawain dying before the final battle with Mordred in the legend).
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The Road To Avalon / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Road To Avalon / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Mordred, though he is legitimized.
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The Road To Avalon / int_7a4013f3	type	Deuteragonist
The Road To Avalon / int_7a4013f3	comment	Deuteragonist: The plot revolves around Arthur and thus he's the protagonist but Morgan has a good chunk of focus as his Love Interest. Gwenhwyfar in turn is a tritagonist, getting focus as the not-love interest.
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The Road To Avalon / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
The Road To Avalon / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Arthur and Morgan have this, but it is never explained how it originated.
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The Road To Avalon / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Road To Avalon / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Upon Morgan's pregnancy, Morgause matter-of-factly suggests that she use certain herbs to deal with it, but Morgan can't bear to do that to her and Arthur's love-child.
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The Road To Avalon / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
The Road To Avalon / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: Both Arthur and Gwenhywfar have an extramarital affair but for the most part, neither has an issue with it since theirs was an arranged marriage and they recognize that either of them is happier with that other person.
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The Road To Avalon / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
The Road To Avalon / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Gwenhwyfar falls in love with Arthur but he doesn't love her back the same way, which is an issue since they're already married. After Arthur gets married, Cai reveals to Morgan that he's quietly been in love with her all along too, though they both know her heart belongs to Arthur and vice versa. Morgan says she'd settle for him if she could, but she can't.
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The Road To Avalon / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Road To Avalon / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Late in the story, the noble youths in training hero-worship Bedwyr and so they're stunned after his affair with Gwenhwyfar is exposed by Agravaine leading them to catch the two in bed, and even more so after Arthur, who was turning a blind eye to it, sweeps it under the rug.
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The Road To Avalon / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
The Road To Avalon / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Morgan has light brown hair and certainly intelligent and educated.
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The Road To Avalon / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
The Road To Avalon / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Igraine is cold, ambitious, given to politicking and devoted to Uther, while her full sister Morgause is warm, easygoing and content as long as she has a suitable man, so she doesn't miss Lot too much as she's married off to Pellinore.
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The Road To Avalon / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Road To Avalon / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: First cousins are allowed to marry, so Arthur and Morgan use this rationale to keep their relationship going.
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The Road To Avalon / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
The Road To Avalon / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: The dashing blond Hunk Bedwyr has many female admirers, while the bronze-haired Head-Turning Beauty Gwenhwyfar is similarly a Dude Magnet leaving many men in awe, not quite including Arthur. Even Mordred has a crush on her though she's kind of his stepmother, which Agravaine exploits.
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The Road To Avalon / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
The Road To Avalon / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Not literally in effect as Uther and Igraine are sure Arthur is Uther's kid, but the fact remains that she was pregnant when he married her, so there would always be rumors that the real father was Igraine's first husband Gorlois, thus undermining any dynastic ambitions for both of them. This is part of their excuse for abandoning Arthur as a baby.
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The Road To Avalon / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Road To Avalon / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Merlin doesn't tell Arthur and Morgan how exactly they're related to each other until it gets complicated between them, and the repercussions from their incestuous forbidden love last all the way to Arthur's final fate.
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The Road To Avalon / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The Road To Avalon / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Defied by Morgan. She is not supposed to take part in Merlin's lessons to Cai and Arthur, but she insists on it.
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The Road To Avalon / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Road To Avalon / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Only Uther, Igraine and Merlin know that Uther's son with Igraine didn't die in infancy and was sent away to be raised by others. Arthur is told he is the bastard of Merlin's deceased army friend and becomes Merlin's ward at nine years old, but only finds out his relation to the king and queen and thus Merlin himself when he's 16 and being set up to succeed Uther. The true extent of Arthur and Morgan's relationship is kept a closely guarded secret between them and few others, and later Gwenhwyfar realizes and understands, though not without some lingering resentment/jealousy. Similarly, Arthur is aware of her affair with Bedwyr. Mordred's true parentage is only known to his parents, Merlin, Morgause, and later Pellinore realizes but keeps quiet. Morgan never even tells Arthur about her pregnancy which only Morgause and Merlin know about too.
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The Road To Avalon / int_a00f2ac9	type	First Kiss
The Road To Avalon / int_a00f2ac9	comment	First Kiss: Arthur and Morgan's feelings for each other first boil over this way after they try to comfort each other after her dog dies of old age. They make a habit of it in secret and Their First Time happens not too long after.
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The Road To Avalon / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
The Road To Avalon / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Kind of a Foregone Conclusion given the legend, but here Arthur's last battle is not a total kill-em-all mess but a Curb-Stomp Battle in his favor, and he only gets mortally wounded by accident/bad luck/fate.
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The Road To Avalon / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
The Road To Avalon / int_ab17f66	comment	Big Brother Mentor: Downplayed as Cai becomes Arthur's loyal follower and infantry commander but he is a trusted adviser, and when they're growing up together, comes to regard him as a generous, supportive older brother might with a more talented younger sibling, with no sign of resentment.
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The Road To Avalon / int_adf84dea	type	What Beautiful Eyes!
The Road To Avalon / int_adf84dea	comment	What Beautiful Eyes!: Morgan's most striking feature which Arthur notices even at their first meeting as children, her large brown eyes.
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The Road To Avalon / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Road To Avalon / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Merlin left the baby Arthur in the care of Igraine's serving-woman who thus retired to her humble village, but only finds out years later when he comes to take charge of Arthur personally that she died sometime ago, and Arthur was stuck living with her harsh brother who was not above beating him. Merlin blames himself for not checking up on the boy more regularly.
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The Road To Avalon / int_b51a2dd8	type	Demythification
The Road To Avalon / int_b51a2dd8	comment	Demythification: The story is mostly grounded in reality except for Arthur and Morgan's Psychic Link. Merlin is an educated former soldier and advisor, a wise man not a wizard.
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The Road To Avalon / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Road To Avalon / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The novel mixes spellings of Arthurian names from various stages of the myth's development, like using the Celtic spellings of Cai, Bedwyr and Gwenhwyfar instead of Kay, Bedivere and Guinevere, along with name spellings from the chivalric romance literature like Meliagrance and Mordred instead of Celtic Melwas and Medraut. Plus names that look "ordinary" or "normal" out of context, like Arthur and Morgan.
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The Road To Avalon / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Road To Avalon / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Arthur takes a lot after his father Uther in height, face and grey eyes and black hair, with his finer facial features coming from his also dark-haired mother Igraine. Mordred so strongly resembles him in turn that Pellinore was able to deduce his parentage when he was a toddler, and his mere arrival at Camelot years later causes a stir. It gets to the point that after Arthur is mistakenly believed dead, Mordred as the heir (as prodded by Agravaine) suggests to Gwenhwyfar that they marry to keep things stable, and though it never comes to pass, he looks so much like a younger Arthur that Gwenhwyfar flirts with him becoming her DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest and agrees, but it's called off once Arthur is revealed to be alive.
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The Road To Avalon / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
The Road To Avalon / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: Bedwyr and Cai play this straight by being big, tall men, while in contrast Arthur is more of average or lower height, shorter and thinner in build due to his Roman blood through Uther. Gwenhwyfar is tall for a woman and taller than Arthur.
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The Road To Avalon / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Road To Avalon / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Merlin reveals Arthur's true backstory to him when taking him to meet Uther and Igraine for the first time since infancy, which also means he tells him he's his grandfather. Arthur realizes this means Morgan, by now his lover, is his aunt. Later back at Avalon, Merlin finally tells the story to everyone there and Morgan realizes the same. Years later, when Mordred goes to Camelot, Arthur and then Morgan meet with him privately to admit everything.
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The Road To Avalon / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Road To Avalon / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Mordred is well-meaning but naive, and at worst is duped into this role as Agravaine deceives Camelot about Arthur's defeat and death in a war in Gaul, ultimately a ploy to seize power for himself with Arthur's heir Mordred as his unwitting pawn whom he'll dispose of when it suits him. Once Mordred finds out he's been tricked and technically Trapped in Villainy with Agravaine's rebellion, he tries to escape when he has the chance.
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The Road To Avalon / int_d63358ae	type	Give Him a Normal Life
The Road To Avalon / int_d63358ae	comment	Give Him a Normal Life: Morgan goes along with Morgause raising her son so that he can have a stable life away from the pressures Arthur must deal with.
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The Road To Avalon / int_e205b147	type	Merlin and Nimue
The Road To Avalon / int_e205b147	comment	Merlin and Nimue: Alluded to by way of Mythology Gag and contrasted with the mundane reality of a mere family spat. Merlin's much younger second wife Nimue was related to the British Emperor Maximus, so Uther and Igraine were wary about a rival royal dynasty in the making, and they insinuated that she must have been an enchantress who seduced him in his old age. Merlin doesn't appreciate being called old (he's just in his mid-50s when he takes Arthur in) and this sours their relationship to an extent.
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The Road To Avalon / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Road To Avalon / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Bedwyr is one of Bedivere and Lancelot.
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The Road To Avalon / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Road To Avalon / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Arthur and Morgan fall in love and want to marry once they reach adulthood, but Arthur turns out to be the hidden rightful heir to the throne and Morgan his half-aunt, so duty and blood relations get in the way, even after Arthur's power is secured years later and he could get away with Kissing Cousins if he tried. After several years of being willfully apart, they eventually give in and start an affair.
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The Road To Avalon / int_e96475ec	type	Excalibur
The Road To Avalon / int_e96475ec	comment	Excalibur: Arthur's sword is never named let alone stuck in a stone, and completely ordinary except for a jewel in the hilt. Aside from that, it's only special because Arthur gets it as a belated coming of age/birthday present. Though Merlin says that Arthur will one day have Uther's own sword, this isn't elaborated upon further and this sword becomes Arthur's favored one.
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The Road To Avalon / int_e9fb50be	type	Redheads Are Ravishing
The Road To Avalon / int_e9fb50be	comment	Redheads Are Ravishing: Gwenhwyfar is renowned for her beauty and has red-gold or bronze hair, with green eyes to boot.
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The Road To Avalon / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Road To Avalon / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Agravaine and Gaheris. They're Foils to each other as both have ambitions to be a king unlike their oldest and youngest siblings, but while Gaheris is loyal to Arthur as the king of Lothian, Agravaine tries to overthrow him as High King.
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The Road To Avalon / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
The Road To Avalon / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: Igraine abandons the newly born Arthur in hopes of making proper heirs with Uther, which even Merlin is onboard with, but every child since then is stillborn and so years later they're forced to fall back on Arthur. Arthur marries Gwenhwyfar mostly just to produce an heir, yet she is sterile. This leads to a lot of angst on her end, as she wants to give him a child and is initially afraid he'll replace her due to her barrenness until he assures her he won't do anything of the sort. When she begins her affair with Bedwyr, she flirts with the possibility of him getting her pregnant, but it doesn't happen either. Averted however with Mordred's conception, as in many tellings Arthur only has to be seduced once by his sister for that to happen, but here Arthur and Morgan are implied to have knocked boots more than once in secret even after they realize the complications of their family ties, until they're forced to be apart due to Arthur's duties and Morgan finds out she's pregnant. However, Mordred's birth is a hard one and Morgan is given to understand she will be unable to conceive again afterward, which is another factor why she feels she can't just marry Arthur herself as he needs heirs.
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The Road To Avalon / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
The Road To Avalon / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Morgause to Morgan, who helps her with her pregnancy and raises the baby as her own son, and later goes along with Arthur's plan to continue posing as Mordred's birth mother even after Arthur acknowledges him as his son, to keep Morgan's secret safe.
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The Road To Avalon / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
The Road To Avalon / int_faf4a043	comment	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Arthur is born because Igraine knowingly cheated on her husband with Uther, and partly out of guilt due to the adultery and in hopes of making children properly, she goes along with Parental Abandonment. But later, Arthur and Gwenhwyfar cheat on each other with the mutual understanding that it's better for everyone this way, with no hard feelings.
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The Road To Avalon / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
The Road To Avalon / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Arthur had an indeterminate time living with an abusive stepfather figure which leaves scars on his body and mind, and he is a sullen quiet boy when Merlin takes him to his villa Avalon, but Morgan is the first friend he makes and he eventually recovers due to her and the others.
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The Road To Avalon / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Road To Avalon / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: It appears that Agravaine is genuinely fond of his younger brother Mordred despite both fully aware that he's using him as a disposable pawn by the end, and Agravaine is even a bit apologetic to Mordred soon before the looming battle with Arthur, saying that he always liked him.
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