Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Three/@comment-5102537-20130914110054/@comment-5102537-20130922162803

That's true, Regan. And this was a point I still wanted to mention in regard to your fanfic :-D

Realistically, what you said might have been the most likely situation in the dark ages/medieval times. Also in regard to the Camelot here which you have stated out in your story, given that after conquering Camelot it must have taken a while until the new kingdom was stable and strong enough for other kingdoms/royals to agree to a marriage of their daughters with a fresh new king.

However, according to the show, Igraine was Uther's "heart and soul" and given that he freaked out to that extent after her death, his love for her must have been what his world turned around. Such deep love actually doesn't happen only after a while. When you're in love with someone so much that you're suffering a shock due to the death of the  loved one and you're willing to start a crusade and never even think of marrying or falling in love again, there usually was a strong affection, if not love on the first sight involved from the very beginning.

I'm convinced that Uther has always loved Igraine. He probably was very lucky to marry someone who was a good match in regard to politics and who he really loved at the same time. But even if you're right and he didn't love her in the beginning but grew close to her later, he knew what love was either way. Let alone that his love for her was more important to him than anything else. So either way, what they made him tell Arthur in "The Death Song..." was quite unlikely for him to say, unless he said it because as a ghost he wasn't in his right mind and/or was referring to his love for Morgana which backfired and destroyed him in the end. In any case, they didn't explain it but let us believe that Uther simply didn't care about love, and this was just rubbish and made a mockery of his entire character they had presented to us from the beginning.