Parallels Between SoV and Arthurian Legend

[vanguard333]

For a game with a lot of Greco-Roman styling, I noticed that quite a few things in the game are quite comparable to Arthurian Legend:

1. A hidden crown prince raised by a knight; a prince who has no idea of his own true heritage: In Arthurian legend, Arthur was raised by a knight named Sir Ector and at first led to believe he was Ector's son by blood, when in fact he was the son of King Uther Pendragon. He also had a foster-brother named Sir Kay, who was Ector's actual son and was also not told of Arthur's true heritage.

2. Two feuding dragons: In Arthurian Legends, a red dragon and a white dragon. The red dragon represented the Romano-British, and the white dragon represented the invading Saxons. Interestingly, from what I've researched, there's some evidence that some Saxons did indeed have the white dragon as one of their symbols. Also, this is the reason the Welsh national animal is a red dragon, and a red dragon is on the Welsh Flag.

3. A sword only royalty may lift and use: obviously the sword in the stone, which was proof of Arthur's true lineage (they didn't have DNA tests or anything like that back then). Funny enough, in the vast majority of versions of Arthurian Legend, the Sword in the Stone and Excalibur are not the same sword.

4. An old wizard mentor: Merlin of course. Ironically, Nomah is Celica's mentor, and he and Alm never have any interactions in-game.

What do you think? Is there anything else in SoV that can be compared to Arthurian legends?

[RedRob]

Doubt you're going to find any more parallels. Echoes is a war-story so to speak, while Arthurian myths were more epics meant to show off a badass group of knights. I don't think there was much deeper meaning to them other, "obey your king" and "be honorable".

In short, they're of different genres, which limits the amount of parallels they can have. Heck, what you do have are mostly coincidences, or a cliche in regards number 3.