User blog comment:Merlaa/Is Kilgharah realy wise?/@comment-5674726-20121227215642/@comment-5674726-20121227223050

It proves that there could in fact be many different futures, but this one came to pass because of Merlin knowing and trying to alter the future(the others were mere pawns, apparently, since they did not know their future).

If Merlin was never told about what a great King Arthur would be, and that the two of them would build a great nation together where magic was accepted, etc, do you think that he would have been willing to sacrifice his life to restore Arthur's after he was bitten by the Questing Beast?

Had Arthur died then, I'd say that the most probable scenario is that Uther would have named Morgana his heir - something he could have done without publicly acknowledging her as his daughter, if he was reluctant to reveal that he and Vivienne had an affair - and that, once she succeeded him, magic would be restored. I'd say that, if she knew that she would be Queen one day, and in a position to restore magic, Morgana wouldn't have been as frightened, and would very probably not have tried to take the throne by force before Uther died.

Alternatively, what do you think would have happened if Kilgharrah decided that he didn't want Uther to be remembered as the father of the greatest King ever, and lied to Merlin, telling him that Morgana was the one who would build Albion with him?

''Also, what does the "forever" mean? Did Morgana survive? Was she reborn?''

Either or.

Morgana wears a bracelet with healing powers that are without equal in the Five Kingdoms. Unless I'm forgetting my geography, the Lake of Avalon, where the Sidhe live, is located within Camelot, one of the Five Kingdoms. Perhaps she recovered after Merlin left her, or else Aithusa found her and a combination of dragon magic and bracelet magic brought her back to life.

I can't translate the spells but I got the impression from The Fires of Idirsholas that Morgause only removed the spell on the Knights of Medhir. The sleeping spell on Morgana was a separate enchantment, cast at a separate time. If Morgause didn't actually reverse the sleeping spell, then the fact that the other characters started waking up means that Morgana died from hemlock poisoning. If so, it didn't keep Morgause, a High Priestess, from bringing her back to life. The healing bracelet was forged by a High Priestess.