Survived That. Onwards!

Thanksgiving was fine. The hotel room was not what we'd expected-there was no hot tub or pool in the vicinity. We drove around Appleton looking for food for an hour. No Christmas shopping got done at all.

All in all, it was a terrible trip, and now the house is crammed with two extra people and, for some reason, my sister's fifty billion instruments that she brought home for all of TWO DAYS. There's no way she can play them all; she should have left most of them at the dorm and not brought them here. Now I can trip over them every time I need to feed the dogs! Joy!

Muse movie that I mentioned so very long ago is finished. The guy will put it up soon.

Muse themselves are going to be on SNL-dunno if they've got a stage BIG enough for them.

Think I'll watch an episode of Merlin.

Ta,
Bec

Episode 10: Arthur gets drunk on love potion and starts a war by accident.

Episode 11: Morgana and Mordred try to steal an amulet for a sorcerer.

Episode 12: Morgause lights up the Fires of Idirsholas and Arthur and Merlin come home to find the entire castle under an enchantment...save Morgana.

Episode 13: Should know about this one in the next couple of days.


PS: Having watched an episode of Merlin, I started thinking again. I started pondering whether Morgause was related to Arthur...

And that's where this came in. A possible family tree.



Now, as you can see, although we don't know if Morgause and Morgana share a mother or whether they share a father, I assumed here that they share a mother. Magic and seeing the future often run in families and tend to fall to women more than men in literature, so that's why I did that.

PS: UPDATE FROM 25TH OF MAY, 2010. Having watched that episode again last week, I am almost certain that Morgause and Morgana share a mother, thanks to that bracelet Morgause hands over to Morgana from her mother. The bracelet seems to control dreams, so I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if Mum, Morgause, and Morgana all had the same power...hence the passing down of the family heirloom.

One thing I've yet to suss out is why the bracelet has the symbol of the house of Gorlois on it. Morgana's dad was Gorlois-we all know this. Something doesn't jive here. Haven't sorted it out yet.

The people that raised Morgause are the same group that Nimueh was from, although I believe she was probably acting on her own. Morgause said she KNEW Igraine WELL, which would have been impossible unless Morgause and Igraine were family. Igraine lived in Camelot, but Morgause hadn't been there since she was a baby, presumably when she was first smuggled out to the priestesses of the Old Religion.

Igraine must have been visiting her family, and Morgause happened to be visiting there because she's of the same family. Morgause is also considerably older than Arthur and Morgana, and would have probably been a young girl when Igraine died.

Since Uther prefers not to talk about Igraine, it would be reasonable to believe that he wouldn't tell Arthur about the rest of the clan. He's certainly not talking to the Dubois' if magic runs so heavily in their family (as I assume it does.)

That makes Gorlois, Morgana's father, Uther's brother-in-law. They were close. He didn't say family but nobility are always related in some way.

That makes Arthur Pendragon Morgana's cousin, and since nobility were always marrying each other inside of the family that's pretty normal.

It also explains why Morgause is a blonde, like her supposed cousin Arthur and her supposed aunt Igraine, and why Morgause seems to care so much about Camelot, and why she tromped Arthur but didn't kill him.

I assume Igraine was the youngest of the three kids, and whoever Morgana's/Morgause's mother was received the magical inheritance that the DuBois family carries in their bloodline. Igraine and Tristan probably did not, or if they did it was minimal, enough that Arthur has no magical ability at all.

This is all speculation. I have no idea why Uther wouldn't tell Arthur that Morgana was his cousin (if indeed they are related that closely) save for that Uther NEVER talks about family and so it just never came up.

But I DO believe that, even if this family tree I've created is wrong, that there is SOME relation between Igraine and Morgause's family, however faint that link may be. Noble families are always related, and since legend says that Arthur and Morgana WERE related, it's not that far of a stretch to say that the show wouldn't do the same.

Feel free to drop me a line about this!

Ta times two,
Bec