Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140119214236/@comment-5102537-20140121221302

ReganX wrote:

I could also see it deepening Morgana's resentment if her father's determination to breed with her barren stepmother when he already had a child led to people like her being outlawed.

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?

As for Uther being desperate to have a son/a male heir, I believe it was done that way in the beginning because male offsprings were often preferred in the dark ages. When Uther asked for a son, he was in the "lucky" position to choose the gender of the child. If this was real but not only fiction, I would imagine that any child with Igraine would have been welcomed, whether a son or a daughter. The main thing was that Camelot had an heir, plus that when the love is so deep the wish for a child is overwhelming in most cases.

I think that the fact that Igraine couldn't conceive at all was what made him (and maybe also Igraine) desperate, meaning, aside from Camelot's future, that a child with Igraine was the biggest sign of love. Otherwise, as we've stated before, Uther could have divorced and married another woman.

Without the Great Purge and the hatred for magic, Morgana wouldn't have had a reason to turn that evil, unless she was brainwashed by Morgause (which, actually, would be the only plausible explanation for her madness). Had she been acknowledged as Uther's daughter from the beginning and if magic hadn't been outlawed, Morgana would have stayed the way she was portayed in the first season, at least up to a certain point. I'm convinced that she would have fought over power with Uther nevertheless since she was a very determined woman. In my opinion, she had a problem with authorities, especially with Uther as the alpha male.

On the other hand, had she not disagreed with him due to the fact that magic would have been allowed/welcomed, she might have been much more relaxed and completely on Uther's side, depending on how she had been raised if she had lived in Camelot from the beginning, which means she wouldn't had had to adapt to a new life at a new place at the age of ten.