Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140119214236/@comment-5674726-20140630222648

Second option, at long last.

If Vivienne was Uther's second wife, the Great Purge would have begun when she married him and Morgana was born. It is almost certain that she had magic herself and, if she didn't, she had close ties to the Isle of the Blessed, so much so that she faked the death of her newborn daughter in order to hand her to the priestesses there for training. It could have been interesting if her motive for marrying Uther was to make herself an inside woman, of sorts, or else to have a child by him so Camelot would have an alternative heir to Arthur, one who was highly likely to have magic.

I could see Morgana growing up very close to her father and half-brother and, as she would undoubtedly be taught that magic was evil from her very early childhood, it would be very frightening for her when she first developed magic. If she confided in Uther and/or Arthur, I can't see either of them hurting her but they might want her to find a way to suppress it. As in the first scenario, Morgana could end up wanting to find a cure for magic.