User blog comment:DragonsHaveMoustaches/Why did Gaius take Morgause to the High Priestesses?/@comment-5191335-20120625061807/@comment-5191335-20120625134838


 * ) No, thank you for your very thought-provoking blog! It was interesting seeing all the different responses to it.

Yes, in some of the myths Nimueh was depicted as immortal. I don't remember if she was in the show, but that would seem probable. I do think that it is very likely that the writers purposefully seperated them into two characterss (three, actually, since the Lady of the Lake, who in the show is apparently Freya, was also Vivienne/Nimueh). Not only could this be seen as symbolic (posssibly  of the fracturing of the Old Religion), but  it provides the writers with three characters to use in the course of the plot instead of just one, allowing the writers some freedom, providing more possible plot-lines/episodes, and adding more variety to the show.

It may be that Vivienne possessed the Sight, like her daughters, and foresaw the Great Purge and believed Morgause would fall victim to it. If so, she would definately have led Uther to believe that Morgause had died.

Thank you for answering my question! I do believe that Vivienne is the mother of both Morgana and Morgause. In the legends, they have the same mother. In the show, while I  don't think it  is ever explicitly stated, it is alluded to in multiple  instances that the two witches share a mother. Also, it would make sense for Vivienne, being Gorlois' wife and a person with magic (posibly even a High Priestess), to have a bracelet carrying Gorlois's crest and for that bracelet to have been made for her (or even by her) on the Isle of the Blessed.

I do agree that the uanswered questions about Morgause leave a set of plot-holes!