User blog comment:Morganaforever/2 is better than 1?/@comment-4623180-20120123083752/@comment-4623180-20120123160302

I have been perfectly outdone! Ok, well, Nimeuh was around in Camelot practicing magic before she caused Igraine to die in order to give birth to Arthur. Uther then banished her and began The Great Purge, in which during this time Morgause was a small child (so I think simply with this time difference we can conclude Nimueh was far more experienced than Morgause, but I don't know about power, maybe Nimueh stopped becoming more powerful after her friends and family died, as she had no one to learn off of). Which is where I'm left really confused- Gaius gave Morgause to the high priestesses of the Old Religion. They must have been a different group to Nimueh. Nimueh must not have cared about that particular group. But they're all beings of magic, they're kin. So there must be some reason... Nimueh didn't even seem to have an idea of who Morgana would become.. they had NOTHING whatsoever to do with each other. Morgause sought out Morgana and Uther's demise, yet Nimueh just sought to do it herself and later sought to ally with Merlin after learning who he was. I think, Nimueh just did not know about this group of high priestesses. For the most of them, I think Uther managed to kill them in The Great Purge, the ones that trained Morgause were probably dying or very old and just died with time, to which she took their place. Nimeuh's prophet powers aren't that great- she didn't originally know Merlin had magic, she didn't know Gaius would come to give his life for Hunith's, she didn't know Merlin could actually slay him, and most certainly didn't know what would happen with Morgana, as that was what happened after her death and she said 'with my help, Arthur will become king'. She did not foresee Morgana having any part in Camelot falling. In fact, I'm beginning to think all she knew was that Arthur wouldn't die at her hand. All this confusion makes me really want Nimueh to never come back. She just would not fit in. If she came back, I think it'd just expose some big holes in the story. It would be cool, but not suitable or logical for the story.

So in summary, I think Nimueh didn't know or care about Morgause. If she did know about Morgause, then she'd have to have some sort of idea of Morgause's future intentions (she is a prophet, after all), to form an alliance with Morgana- one within Camelot and one out- and bring down Camelot that way. If she knew all this would happen, then she obviously knew of her death, which she obviously didn't. Just to sooth your brain... it's just a show. ;) Sometimes I have to remind myself of that, too. All kinds of rules will be broken and possibilities made possible or cut off to favour one direction or character.