Mordred is the illegitimate son of King Arthur and his half sister, Queen Morgan le Fay (Or Morgause). When Arthur learns that he has had a child by his half-sister, he attempts to kill Mordred by condemning all the children born on May Day to be set adrift on the sea. But his son survives when the ship he is in breaks up and he is cast up on the shore and found by a good man, who raises him until he is fourteen. Even before Mordred accuses Lancelot and Guinevere of their treasonous affair and plans to trap them, his villainy is clear. When Gawain and his brothers treacherously attack and slay Lamorak, it is Mordred who gives him a fatal wound in the back. While Arthur is besieging Lancelot’s castle in France, Mordred forges letters saying that Arthur is dead, claims the throne, and intends to marry Guinevere. In the final battle at Camlann, Arthur gives Mordred a fatal wound; but Mordred thrusts himself up the length of Arthur’s spear so he can strike his father, commiting the ultimate crime of regicide. —source
[Description: Morgana, wearing a hooded cloak, is on horseback. Her black cat Lucifer is sitting in front of her on the saddle. The abbess leads Morgana’s horse by the bridle. Followed by two nuns, they are leaving Uther’s palace behind them. In the background, Ygraine holds Morgause in her arms, sad to see her youngest daughter leave.]
Morgana is well and truly fed up with Uther’s bullying - and Uther is about to notice…
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Morgana: “Leave my mother alone!”
[Description: As little Morgana cries out in anger, fists clenched, a blackness spreads at her feet and a potted plant loses its leaves. Behind Morgana, her sister Morgause holds a frightened black kitten with a bushy tail.]
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