Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20141004175104/@comment-5674726-20141111201114

One quite troubling aspect about Morgana in Season Two, after she learned that she had magic is that she is too willing to trust others who have magic. I would say that this is born of her desperation to believe that Uther is wrong about magic being an evil that corrupts the soul but she took it to the opposite extreme and seems to have been acting on the assumption that all magic users were good and that they all wished her well.

After a very brief time with the Druids, she describes them as her people.

Morgause offers her a family heirloom and, when Morgana refuses, sneaks into her chambers in the middle of the night to leave it there anyway. When Morgana wakes up to find the bracelet at the foot of her bed, she has no problem with wearing it.

Alvarr sneaks into her locked chambers in the middle of the night and she barely bats an eye.

She receives an unsigned note asking her to meet the writer in the Darkling Woods and, despite being recently kidnapped, sneaks out of the palace to do so, and is quite happy to see Morgause there.

It's one reason that I think that things could have turned out so much better if Gaius had told her the truth about her magic and given her some guidance. He wouldn't have needed to tell her about Merlin, and he was in a position to give her a clearer view of the Great Purge, to help her understand that not all magic users were innocent victims or people in whom she should place her trust.

However, as no other magical allies appear to have sought Morgana out in Season Three, I'm going to operate on the assumption that they would not have if Morgause had not entered her life. If that was the case, I could see her ending up trying to help magic users from inside the palace, by freeing them if she could. If she was in contact with Alvarr, she could have tried things like feeding him information on things like when deliveries of supply wagons were expected, as a way of helping the cause but without inflicting lethal damage on all of those who followed Uther, something she was visibly uncomfortable with.

An interesting possibility would be if her paternity came to light and Uther acknowledged her as his daughter, something I see him doing if she ever broached the subject directly, as opposed to dancing around it in the hopes that he would tell her, as she did in The Crystal Cave. She would then be next in line for the throne after Arthur and, even if she did not have any wish to kill him to get the throne, the likes of Alvarr could feel very differently. I can see him being more than a little pleased by the prospect of a Queen of Camelot who had magic.