Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140630220202/@comment-5102537-20140728094628

ReganX wrote:

Choosing an heir from a noble family is much more problematic than claiming his biological child by a woman other than his wife as it would require him to select one family for the honour of one of their own becoming the future King of Camelot, which is not going to go down well with the other families, who would be bound to resent that their son wasn't chosen. Making one noble family happy while making lots of noble families angry wouldn't be a clever move, and Uther was an intelligent man.

That's true. On the other hand, a future king needs to match the necessary criterias in order to become the ruler of a kingdom. If the one who would be considered best for the job was chosen, other families would have no choice than to accept. It's impossible to make everyone happy and to fulfill everyone's dream in an entire kingdom.