There were two issues concerning Vortigern's character in this book that might have confused some readers.
This was because the character limits in the author's notes and review section were a little inconvenient (actually, extremely inconvenient).
(The previous sentence might have been grammatically mangled, with mixed constructions or whatever, but never mind that for now. I'll phrase things however feels comfortable.)
So I made a separate chapter to explain them.
For this, I even went so far as to change the overall title of the second section from "Brief profiles • Servants" to "Servant cards & character profiles."
(T^T)
All right, back to the topic.
First, there were the two Vortigerns.
I wondered whether everyone still remembered the other Vortigern.
He appeared in that incredibly long (and incredibly rambling) introduction to the older generation's backstory, delivered through Merlin in the first chapter.
He was the false king who assassinated Uther's father, Constantine, and usurped the throne of Constans, Uther's eldest brother.
He was also the one who found Merlin, giving Merlin the opportunity to deliver his prophecy.
Everyone might have noticed that the two characters' Chinese names were extremely similar. Both were "Vortigern."
That was because, in many real-world legends, they were actually the same person.
In the legend about Merlin's prophecy and the red and white dragons, one Vortigern was the other, and vice versa.
But in Nasuverse history, Vortigern, as Britain's White Dragon and self-destruction mechanism, survived until the final battle of Lia's rise to kingship. He gravely wounded Gawain before ultimately being defeated by Artoria, wielding both lance and sword, and Gawain with Rotation.
Meanwhile, in real-world history, just as Merlin explained in the first chapter, he usurped the throne, shirked his duties as king, and was burned to death by Aurelius, Uther's second eldest brother,