ok this anime actually gave us a full flashback to Saber’s time as king, something that friggen fate zero completely failed to do when it cut lancelot’s flashback, so if for nothing else im really happy about that.
Most of this is really good stuff, they even kept in how Mordred originally wanted to serve Arthur and only became obsessed with vengeance once denied parental love. Sadly the scene between Mordred and Guinevere was cut, once again denying fate gwen a chance to have a design.
the one thing i would complain about is that they cut most of the conversation between saber and mordred, the stuff that actually gives weight to Mordred’s grudge.
in the anime saber’s line is missing and the tone is kind of rushed and awkward because we go from Mordred being “I’m King Arthur’s son!? :D” to ARTHURRRRRR in like, less then two minutes.
Arthurian Characters’ Posters: The Family of Orkney: Morgause, Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris, Gareth, Mordred, Clarissant, Soredamor
Explanation: meanwhile Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris, Gareth and Mordred are always reported such as children of Queen Morgause of Orkney (even if the names of Gaheris and Gareth are reported in their English form only in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur), Clarissant and Soredamor appeared only in few versions. Clarissant appeared in Chretien de Troyes’ Perceval ou Le cont duGraal, and Soredamor in another work of Chretien de Troyes, a poem entitled Cliges. (Soredamor, according with this poem, means “fair by love”, where “fair” stayed for an ancient French adjective that indicated blonde or red hair, so my translation is terribly inaccurate, sorry). Sometimes Chretien de Troyes described Agravaine as “proud” and Clarissant as “wise”, but these adjectives aren’t their nickname. On the other side, according to Malory, “The Maiden’s Knight” is a sort of “title” for Gawain, and so “the Kitchen’s Knight” for Gareth.
Arthurian Legends 