User blog:Fimber/We don't know whether Morgause was sentenced to death or not...

This wikia is full of sections in which it is stated that Morgause was sentenced to death as a baby by Uther during the Great Purge. I have edited some of the sections so far and I hope I've found them all.

The Great Purge and Uther's hatred for magic started after Arthur's birth. Morgause is much older than Arthur and even Morgana, so when she was born, magic was still allowed in Camelot and Uther was friends with Nimueh - and maybe Uther hadn't even been king at that point of time yet. So he had no reason whatsoever to kill Morgause as a baby just because she had magical powers, not to mention that it is unknown if anyone could know if a baby has magical powers, since we don't know when the powers develop and can be seen the very first time.

But even if Uther had known that Morgause had magic, why would he sentence her to death just because of that?

During the converstation with Gaius, he said that he was led to believe that the child had died but not that he wanted her dead. Even if he wanted her dead for some unknown reason, we don't have proof of it. Fact is that her magic couldn't have been the reason, if there was one anyway.

Maybe Morgause was smuggled out because she was illegitimate, since Gorlois wasn't her father in case she was still Morgana's half-sister after the reveal of Uther being Morgana's real father. Perhaps she was in danger due to some other reason, given that magic almost destroyed the Five Kingdoms back then. If the writers ever referred to it again and create a story about Uther wanting the baby dead because of her magical powers, it would be a big, big, plothole and wouldn't match the timeline and happenings of the show at all.