A legendary British king in Arthurian legend, famous as the father of King Arthur.
From Welsh 'Uthyr,' meaning 'terrible' or 'wonderful.' The name appears in medieval Welsh legends and was popularized in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae.
Uther Pendragon's name literally means 'terrible/wonderful dragon-head,' and in legend he's so obsessed with a woman that Merlin uses magic to transform him into her husband's shape—one of fiction's earliest and most ethically questionable uses of disguise magic.
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