Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140119214236/@comment-5102537-20140122105943

Ah, I see! No, you expressed yourself perfectly well, I just overlooked the most important aspect that your last sentence refferred to. For some reason I connected it to the possibility that the Great Purge hadn't started at all. My mistake, sorry.

Yes, you're right. Wanting a son although he had an heir already (Morgana) which results in the death of his wife and in the war on magic surely would deepen Morgana's hate, at least the Morgana we know.

There's another possibility. If Morgana had grown up in Camelot with Uther as her father but with magic being outlawed due to Igraine's death, she might have developed into a different direction. We don't know much about Gorlois and the way he raised Morgana, but we do know the way Morgana had been raised by Uther. Maybe she wouldn't have become the determined person she was but had internalised Uther's stance of magic in combination with her love for him. When she came to Camelot at the age of ten, she had lost her parents and certainly didn't love Uther as he was a stranger (friend of the family but not a family member as far as she and everyone else except for Uther was concerned) and the one she had to live with when she wanted to be with her own family. This alone was reason enough to reject him in the beginning, completely aside from the magic issue for which she was too young at that point of time.

But had she been raised by Uther, naturally she had loved him as her father. So maybe she would have seen things differently later and understood his reasons (not approving of them, of course). She often said that Uther didn't love her, which wasn't true, of course. But had she grown up in Camelot as his daughter, she wouldn't have had a reason to even consider that he didn't love her.

Plus, Morgana could have had an influence on Uther as a child already, in case that she had had her sense for justice as a child already (growing up in Camelot). It may have softened him a little.

And would Morgana really have feared that Uther would kill her if he ever learnt of her powers in that case? He wouldn't have done it, of course, but what would have been her point of view?

Then there is the possibility that she had hated herself even more so under these circumstances, growig up as Uther's child in a kingdom where magic is hated, and she later learns of her powers.