[Dragaera] Peasant fantasy

[Jon Lincicum via Dragaera]

On 10/29/2014 4:53 PM, Damien Sullivan via Dragaera wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:29:57PM +0000, Steve Rapaport via Dragaera wrote:
>> If this trope includes Taran pig-keeper, then it already includes the
>> "little lost prince".
> IIRC Taran's parentage is never revealed.  He's just a foundling from a
> battlefield.
>

It's never explicitly stated. However, the "prophecy" that anoints him 
High King at the end of the story implied that the true High King would 
be revealed by his refusal to leave Prydan. This sort of leans on the 
Arthurian legend that the Kingship was actually his by birthright, (as 
Arthur's kinship with Uther Pendragon was by pulling the sword from the 
stone), rather than the revealing action alone somehow ennobling him 
beyond his birth station.

Lloyd Alexander doesn't say for certain one way or the other, however.

--Majikjon