User blog comment:Morgause5/The Death Song of Uther Pendragon/@comment-1509826-20121020212738

Okay, I'll explain it, he wasn't uther, not any more. I know everyone's shouting Uther wouldn't do that, but the fact is, he wasn't Uther any more, he was Uther's ghost. Now the definition and charateristics of a ghost have been thrown around alot these days, but read any ghost story (not any modern trash, I'm taking actual legends, myhts, or pre 1940 ghost stories) and your see they all say the same thing.

A ghost much like a after image, it may look and even to an extent act like the person, but as the old expression goes "whats dead, should stay dead" because its never the same when it comes back, look at any cultures myths, vampires, zombies, ghouls, shtriga ect. When the dead come back, but are no longer amongst the living, they lose there humanity, because quite simply they are no longer human.

Thats what happened to Uther, techniqually if ghosts were real, it was a quite accurate portryal of them. He had decayed, leaving much of him, and being only a after image, all that remained where his strongest feelings, his desire to protect his kingdom, his hatred of magic.

Truthfully we can't blame him for no longer being human, because quite simply he was no longer human, he was what all classical lore states ghosts are, mear shadows lacking everything that made them human. And that is why he was like that, any questions?