History Main / RoyalBlood

* In {{Roza}}, the horse is [[http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2007-05-04 a prince]].
* In {{Strays}} [[http://www.straysonline.com/comic/171.htm it's Prince Holland]].

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**** Tolkien was also influenced by the [[TheBible New Testament]], where Jesus is the rightful King of Israel and spends much of his ministry healing people. Also, in Anglo-Saxon, Christ or Messiah is translated into something very close to modern English's word "Healer".

** In ''The Chessman Of Mars'', Corpals "[[{{Necromancer}} that by commanding the spirits of the wicked dead gains evil mastery over the living]]" are said to be killable only by those of RoyalBlood.

* ''Fable:'' In the first installment into this series it's implied that the main character descends from an ancient royal bloodline and it's outright stated a sacrefice of said blood is needed to unlock the full potential of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Sword of Aeons.]] The other installments in the series also imply a sort of inborn heroic power behind this bloodline as it is essentially the family each player protagonist descends from and the major reason your character can pull off most of their many heroic and death defying feats...like falling out a window some 10-20 stories up.

* ''Fable:'' In the first installment into this series it's implied that the main character descends from an ancient royal bloodline and it's outright stated a sacrefice of said blood is needed to unlock the full potential of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Sword of Aeons.]] The other installments in the series also imply power behind this bloodline as it is essentially the family each playerprotagonist descends from.

* Being a member of the Royal House of [[BookOfAmber Amber]] makes one [[strike:practically]] superhuman, with great strength, impressive healing, the [[FunctionalMagic Trumps]], the ability to [[TheMultiverse walk between worlds]]... Of course, being so powerful means their only real competitors are other members of the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Royal Family]]. Being a scheming lot, this leads very quickly to a ThirtyXanatosPileup...

* In ''[[TheWonderfulWizardOfOz The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'', Glinda tells the Scarecrow of Princess Ozma, and everyone immediately agrees that she is the only possible heir, being the last king's daughter.

* In PatriciaAMcKillip's ''Riddle of the Stars'' trilogy, kings have a mystical bond, called "land-law" that allows them to sense their own kingdoms.

* PoulAnderson's ''A Midsummer's Tempest'' takes place in an alternate English Civil War. Prince Rupert is the main character. [[spoiler:Although the magic they work to save him carefully explains that it cares about the land and the king only in as much as the king helps the land, once it has done so, it brings down the Roundheads]].

* In CSLewis's ''[[{{Narnia}} The Magician's Nephew]]'', Jadis treats with contempt the notion that Uncle Andrew could be anything but a king: RoyalBlood and magic go together. Who ever heard of commoners being magicians? Whether this is AuthorityEqualsAsskicking or -- in light of her ruthless use of magic for power -- AsskickingEqualsAuthority is not clear, but she certainly treats it as the former.

* In UrsulaKLeGuin's ''[[EarthseaTrilogy A Wizard of Earthsea]]'', Ged found an old man and woman stranded on an island. In ''The Tombs of Atuan'', Tenar explains: a prince and princess, and the God-Emperor had feared to kill those of Royal Blood.

* In [[{{Ptitlewo6dni8e}} Dorothy L. Sayers]]' LordPeterWimsey novel ''Have His Carcase'', the murder victim was convinced he had RoyalBlood. [[spoiler:The murderers used it to lure him to his death]]. His blood ended up being an important clue [[spoiler:He was a heamophiliac and also Russion (cf Alexei Romanov hence his belief) so when Harriet discovered the corpse covered in fresh blood he wasn't at all recently dead as they thought]].

** King CharlesII of England notoriously did not ''want'' to touch for the King's Evil, but was persuaded to do so as a sign of the continuity of the monarchy after the Restoration. He is said to have muttered to the scrofulous victim brought to him, "God grant you good health -- and better sense."

*From the beginning of TheMiddleAges to the end of the Renaissance, monarchs in England and France were thought to be capable of healing citizens (which is likely where Tolkein got his idea of Aragorn being a healer) of scrofula (known as the "King's Evil" as it was thought only the monarch could cure it) simply by laying their hands on the person and giving them a coin. This ended in England after Queen Anne failed to cure the future Dr. SamuelJohnson (of Boswellian fame) and her successor George I condemned the practice as "too Catholic", and was ended by Louis XV in France, although a brief resurrection in 1825 was widely ridiculed.
** It was also played more or less straight without the superstitious element, as the various thrones in Europe were frequently occupied by rulers of foreign lineage, which all passed without comment because they were still of RoyalBlood - the different royal/noble houses of Europe were occasionally treated like one big intermarrying family.

*Subverted in TerryPratchett's ''WyrdSisters''; they end up choosing between two half-brothers, but they are not the king's illegitimate and legitimate sons, but his court jester's legitimate and illegitimate sons. The king's ghost is still happy.