Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20130906200850/@comment-5674726-20130911000500

Fimber wrote: As for changes in Camelot if Uther had survived and/or mentally recovered, Arthur wouldn't have killed Caerleon, thus Annis wouldn't have gone to war with Arthur. What about Aithusa, would Julius Borden have ever shown up in Camelot? Probably not and Aithusa wouldn't have been hatched. What about Lancelot du Lac, would Morgana have even summoned the shade with Uther being alive and maybe even mentally fit? Probably not. Lancelot wouldn't have returned because Morgana wouldn't have had a reason to cause a fall out between Arthur Gwen, depending on Uther's decision about the two of them. Same goes for the other happenings in the following epsiodes, especially if Morgana had been the one who saved Uther's life in "The Wicked Day".

Again I don't even know where to begin because it all would have been so very different and there would have been so many possibilities and variations.

I'd say that a mental recovery might be more likely if Morgana did the healing but, if it happened, the impact on Camelot would be huge. No war with Caerleon, no Arthur/Guinevere marriage which means no Lancelot being brought back as a shade, possibly Arthur marrying Mithian if his father urged him to do so for the sake of the kingdom and he had no realistic prospect of being able to marry Guinevere. On the flip side, given that Agravaine and Uther weren't best buds, he'd have found himself shunted out of the inner circle once Uther recovered.

I could see Uther possibly seeking ways to save Morgana if she healed him, or else believing that her healing him was a sign that she was fighting magic's corrupting influence. How would she have coped if he was seeking to help her rather than giving orders that she was to be slaughtered on sight?