Talk:Artoria Pendragon/@comment-201.119.12.146-20161106032121/@comment-4802891-20161106042939

In Fate/Prototype, the first version of Fate/Stay night, the hero (Emiya Shirou) was supposed to be a heroine (Sajou Ayaka) and her Servant was to be King Arthur, the man. When the final version of the novel was completed, they swapped the gender for some reasons (mainly for novelty, shock value maybe and certainly because this is a eroge, so the author was forced to change things to have more... you-know-what).

Artoria/Altria is, in-lore, the true, historical King Arthur, a woman. Male King Arthur is considered the archetypical King Arthur (the image people kept of said figure) but it isn't really relevant as this guy never appeared in the main canon.

And Mordred is just Mordred. In this version she is a clone of Artoria, hence why she looks like her. If King Arthur was kept as a male, Mordred would probably be a male too.