Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140906160841/@comment-5674726-20141012171227

Machairodus wrote: Again, it is intrusion into the succession war which makes any peace agreement a laughing stock. And Arthur could be forgiven for thinking that Annis and/or her husband were Morgana's allies all along or that his knight lost because of magic - that he was decieved.

Other kings could think that way too. Or they could think that Arthur can't control his temper like Uther(Especially, when magic is concerned). Also, they know Arthur personally(S2E10).

Even in that case, Arthur being tricked out of half of his kingdom is hardly going to be something that will lead the rulers of the other kingdoms of Albion to think that he was worth the effort of helping.

We're talking about a time when it was not a case of the King having a divine right to rule, it was about strength. Uther was King not because his father and grandfather and great-grandfather were King but by right of conquest. He earned the respect of other monarchs, who became his allies or with whom he had peaceful relations, at the very least. Many people would have taken the view that, if Arthur wasn't strong enough to hold his kingdom, he didn't deserve to be King.

Had it been later in his reign, when he had had a chance to establish himself as a King and to build alliances in his own right, he might have been able to call on support but in the early days of his reign, it would have been up to him to prove that he was worth allying with and worth supporting, especially as supporting him would mean making an enemy of a powerful sorceress. It's not something a monarch would do out of the goodness of their hearts.