User blog comment:It's Good to be the Queen/The Thrill is Gone/@comment-98.237.96.242-20130107182315/@comment-5102537-20130116113837

I didn't see your response, Regan. Sorry. And thanks for information. It's either what you wrote (the alliance fell apart) or the show runners had overlooked the fact that they had made Uther uniting the Five Kingdoms already. Or maybe, they simply changed it and pretended that it had never happened ;-)

"One possibility is that the other monarchs were reluctant to ally with Arthur because of Morgana. She caused quite a bit of trouble for Camelot but had no interest in attacking the other four fifths of the Five Kingdoms, the only other kingdom she attacked was Nemeth, Camelot's ally."

This is another thing I've always wondered about and you are the first one of whom I've ever read this. Most fans are convinced that Morgana wanted to restore magic and fought for all of her kind. This always seemed to me very wrong, because she not only proved that she could not have cared less for fellow magic-users when sacrificing them but she also, as you pointed out, never attacked other kingdoms that forbid magic. Neither did she seek an alliance with King Align who didn't want peace with Camelot and who obviously had no problem with using magic. If she really wanted to free the land from opression of  magic-users/sorcerers, she would have tried to weaken other kingdoms too. At least she would have mentioned her hatred towards them now and and then in case that she wasn't able to attack them. For example, she could have said that once she rules Camelot, she will go after all the other kingdoms. Instead she only focused her rage and hatred on Camelot and Arthur (and Uther). This demonstrates that her hatred was pathological and not a real attempt to fight for what she thought was right. When Uther was dead, she had no reason to fear him anymore (she didn't even have a reason to fear him after she broke him), so she could have tried to ally with Arthur. He has never learnt of her killing Uther, after all (which is another ridiculous thing - Arthur died not knowing that Morgana killed their father). But she didn't want freedom for anyone, she wanted the throne and power. This could have been the reason why the Dochraid said that Morgana was destined to bring back the Old Ways, since the Old Ways weren't quite friendly ones. It seems to demonstrate that the Old Ways were the opposite of what Merlin was supposedly destined to achieve.

The finale of the show basically showed that Merlin's destiny was to end the Old Ways. Uther would have a party on this.