Mordred's spirit has the ability to possess people, both humans and dragons. Julius was then banished for the crime of murdering his Dragon, with no one realizing the truth, or the reasons behind his actions. Unfortunately, Mordred's evil self was able to escape the death of its body, and possess Julius. To that end, Mordred and the Prince conspired to kill it, hoping that it would prevent Mordred's evil self from causing harm. As it grew older, it eventually was discovered that Mordred had a second, malevolent aspect, to their personality born from Mordred's ancestral memory as a descendent of the dark kingdom of Nehalennia, and it was slowly taking them over. Mordred was the Dragon Pal of Prince Julius Lautreamont. He is also shown to be reckless, trying to kill Ash while he was attempting to take over Echo's body despite the blatantly obvious fact that if he succeeded Echo herself would die too, with him inside of her no less, and has also proven himself a coward, as he clearly feared death when Ash gained the upper hand and cautioned him that killing him would kill Echo's body as well.įor some reason, both the Necromancia he creates and his own spiritual manifestation utilize tentacles as their primary means of attack, and they largely prioritize female targets, Navi herself even goes so far as to claim that Mordred has a particular fixation with it. He had no problem reviving other dragons as Necromancia, including his own good self, and using them as undead soldiers to pursue his ends, or awakening Echo in a forceful and incredible painful manner so that he could take over her dragon-form's body while she was mentally exhausted from the torture and transformation, after which he even claimed he would make humans livestock to replace the current system due to the dragon's need for Astral being something he can't avoid. He does, however, seem to feel personally betrayed by Julius for killing him. The Evil Mordred is ruthless and cruel, he cares nothing for others, be it his allies, subordinates, his other side or his host and former master Julius, and will use anyone and everyone as means to accomplish his own personal objectives, with the possible exception of Anya.
In the manga series mordred is actually a female who looks like a Loli girl just like Eco (source vol 7 in stores now). When he was revived as a Necromancia, Mordred asked Ash to kill it while assuring him that Echo, whom it earlier swallowed, would be kept safe. The good Mordred is shown to care deeply for his master Julius, and even went so far as to provide him with an Ark, later, this Mordred was even willing to die in order to keep his evil side from taking over. His evil half, however, was able to avoid this fate by possessing Julius' own body. When Julius killed Modred, his good half remained in his body and perished with it, only to be later revived as the first Necromancia and then permanently killed by Ash. Mordred has, or rather, had, two distinct personalities, his good half and his evil half, which was born due to his being a descendant of the Dark Kingdom of Nehalennia.