Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20130929195047/@comment-5102537-20131012122333

Ongard Odin wrote:

I personally think that Nimueh is alot like Morgana, she was previously a good person and was close with Uther, but due to a traumatic event that made her feel betrayed, she became what she did. For Morgana it was the poisoning at Merlin's hands and the attack on Alvarr, for Nimueh it was the Great Purge.

To me it has always been quite clear that Nimueh had planned it all. Her remarks to Merlin to rule the world with him and that Arthur was never meant to die at her hands, the Questing Beast that was also present when Igraine died, plus Merlin and Gaius  saying that Nimueh was the one who killed Igraine and then Merlin telling her that he doesn't want to have anything to do with her and her kind actually proved that Nimueh wasn't just someone who seeked revenge due to mistreatment of sorceres but that she had had her hands in the entire happening from the very beginning, starting with Igraine's death.

There was a discussion about Nimueh and her intentions on another thread or blog already but I can't fid it right now.

And as for Morgana, well, it never worked for me that she went insane and completely evil due to either Merlin poisoning her or Uther being strict and her fear to be sentenced to death by him. But that's another discussion too.