Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140119214236/@comment-5674726-20140122011525

Fimber wrote: I agree with your ideas for the most part. Though I'm not sure about your last paragraph. Morgana surely would be at odds with Uther in that case because she would feel being put aside, but I'm not sure why it would lead to people with magic being outlawed. Maybe I misunderstood what you are saying?

I probably didn't express it very well.

In canon, Ygraine was unable to conceive naturally, which is something that wouldn't change if Uther had had another wife before he married her. Because of this, the only way that they would have a child is through the use of magic, which would lead to the life for a life policy and Uther waging war on magic after Ygraine's death. In that case, it'd be an added stinger for Morgana to have magic in a kingdom where magic is outlawed because, from where she is standing, it was completely unnecessary for Uther to resort to magic to have a child by Ygraine when he already had an heir in Morgana. Uther didn't need Arthur but because he was adamant that he wanted to have a son (or a child of either sex) with Ygraine, he set into motion a chain of events that led to the Great Purge, whereas if he had been content with the child he had, magic would not be outlawed.