User blog comment:Fimber/We don't know whether Morgause was sentenced to death or not.../@comment-4650675-20120604085251/@comment-5102537-20120604094955

But by whom? Surely, Uther had no problem with magic at that time since he was friends with a High Priestess of the Old Religion (Nimueh) and with Gaius, who practised magic, too. And we don't know if Uther had already conquered Camelot at that point of time.

Chawk1993, if Morgause and Morgana are still half sisters, Gorlois can't be the father because if he was, Gaius and everyone else would have thought that M and M were full sisters. At that point of time, everyone except of Uther still assumed that Morgana was Gorlois' daughter.

Maybe Morgause was the daughter of Vivienne and the former king (or leader) of Camelot and she was smuggled out when the war on Camelot started to prevent her from being harmed from the attacks. Or maybe it wasn't about her safety at all but only about the Old Religion claiming her since she had powerful magic. Perhaps someone else was threatening her, maybe even a magical person who wanted her to use her for their own purposes. And Uther thinking that the "child" had died could also mean that he thought Morgause had died as an older child later when the Great Purge started, not as a baby. Maybe Gaius or someone else told him that Morgause was killed during the hunt on magic, lying to Uther about it. On the other hand, if Uther had known of Morgause and was friends with Gorlois and Vivienne, he must have wondered where Vivienne's baby was when Morgause wasn't in Camelot anymore.

I still think that the entire situation with Morgause being brought to the Old Religion didn't have anything to do with Uther because he simply had no reason to harm Morgause because of her magic at that point of time. Morgause's hatred for Uther surely was about him killing sorcerers and standing in her way. I don't think it was personal thing.