Talk:The Sins of the Father/@comment-5102537-20120829203109

I wonder if we will ever get to know wether Igraine was real (her ghost) or just some sort of an illusion or a trick. Obviously, her story about Arthur's birth differs significantly from what we learnt in "Excalibur". Igraine claims that Uther sacrificed her willingly whereas both Nimeuh and Uther said in Excalibur that they didn't know Igraine would die. If he had sacrificed her intenionally, his hate for magic and the hunt on it wouldn't make sense.

If Igraine was real, I wonder how she could know about the deal with Nimueh. Did someone in the afterlife tell her or does death make people "omniscient"? If so, she would have known that Uther had no idea that Igraine's life would be taken in the process. So if someone told her in the otherworld, it surely was someone who either lied deliberately or someone who didn't know the truth. Maybe Uther even told her about the deal with Nimueh when she became pregnant, but at that point of time he didn't know that she would die.

I also wonder why Igraine said that Uther betrayed her by using magic. It implies that Igraine actually didn't want a child, doesn't it? And why did she tell Arthur that it was all Uther's fault when this would actually turn her son against his father and would make him do things he later would regret (trying to kill Uther)? Does she hold a grudge against Uther and didn't care about Arthur's feelings by claiming that Uther sacrificed her willingly?

All this makes me suspect that it wasn't the ghost of Igraine but indeed only a trick created by Morgause. I wish we would get an answer to it.