User blog:It's Good to be the Queen/The fight for freedom of magic

The one thing I could never understand in this campaign for magic, why is it that Morgana can only get ONE major ally with magic in her quest for power and revenge? Given the twenty some-odd years of Uther's persecutions, Uther was able to wipe out many practioners of magic, but obviously not all. Some, along with their offspring, are still around even after Uther's death. Memories are long with Uther's cruelties. Why couldn't Morgana go to these people to form alliances to take down the House of Pendragon once and for all? All those powers combined would take down Camelot, but she relies mostly on non-magical beings to do her bidding. Could it be they see Morgana for what she is - a woman hungry for power and revenge and not for the fighting for the rights of sorcerors, etc? That with Morgana in charge she takes more after Uther than she cares to omit, like Annis has pointed out? That magical beings, especially those that are not down with her way of governing, would be a threat to her so she would feel she would have to force them to her will or eliminate them? Arthur still has the ban on magic, but he is more benign about it. He won't go after magical beings unless a) they team up with Morgana; and b) they actually start some mess in Camelot. There have not been any round ups like in Uther's day. It also makes me think Ruadan will be done by episode 2, then Mordred will step up. I hope Mordred is not the new sleeper cell in Camelot.