Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5674726-20150813192004/@comment-24762954-20151028091311

ReganX wrote:

I think that it's a safe bet that her prolonged use of the healing bracelet had a negative effect on her.

I would argue that Morgana is more a Seer than a Witch. She has both forms of magic but her Seer power manifested when she was a child, while her other magic did not manifest until adulthood. Based on the fact that Morgause cast a separate spell on the healing bracelet, I'd say that the bracelet was only preserving that magic and using it to block Morgana's prophetic dreams rather than it being part of its original function. If so, that's another potential proof of my theory about how the bracelet works. She was blocking off part of herself so who is to say that it did not warp her mentally or emotionally.

One point to consider is that, before she puts on the bracelet, Morgana's visions are of threats to Arthur and Camelot. Afterwards, the only visions that make it through are of threats to her and her ambitions. Did cutting off the visions of Arthur and Camelot affect her emotional ties to them?

All of Morgana's visions are of threats, reasonably often leave her hysterical and prevent normal sleep. Maybe it was supposed to be torture, but I have different idea. Emotions influence our perception and considering that Morgana's visions are dreams it's probable that her fears have strong impact on what she sees. What if Morgana had vision of Gorlois's death and after it happened started to fear the future and her ability to see it? That resulted in chain reaction where fear caused worse visions and visions caused more fear.

Then, in first seasons where Morgana was "good", she have been recklessly helping people she liked. In S1 most of her good deeds were help to Arthur, Gwen, Mordred and Merlin(the absolute champion at that point which could mean either love or ability to sense magic). In S2 Morgana didn't lift a finger when druids or magic people in Camelot were in danger(S2E3 and S2E7) but went out of her way to help Alvarr and Mordred and trusted Morgause. Also, in Morgana's opinion, Uther deserved to die because he didn't love her.

Also, I have an interesting idea, regarding why Merlin have never told anyone about his magic. You see, being warlock is much lesser problem than explaining what he was doing in Camelot all this time and why did he ever came there. Merlin was too willing to protect Arthur for sorcerer, often knew of magical threats and did turn Camelot in populist tyranny(Arthur was the hero of people, had elite detachment of commoner knights that would be loyal only to him and thus was perfectly capable of ignoring any of his opposition). Also, any magic reveal would also incriminate Gaius.