If she hadn’t been born, Arthur would not have become the legend he turned into. I think what the real key of the book might be is that Ingraine’s first marriage is something of a mistake, and therefore Morgaine is sort of the bane of the story.
And a fine idea it is, until the fates take a hand and everything goes terribly caterwampus. Got it? Good.) So the Merlin and the High Priestess, Viviane, arrange for Ingraine (mother of Morgaine) to meet Urther Pendragon and the two of them get together and create Arthur daughter of the Holy Isle and the King of Britain bearing a child to rule both lands equally…that’s the idea. There’s a High Druid and a High Priestess. The Merlin (he’s always called ‘THE Merlin”, not “Merlin”, because apparently, Merlin is the name for the High Druid of Avalon. In Avalon, they worship the Goddess, but in Christian Britain, the gradual spread of the worship of only one God is seen as a threat.
The story is one of a King put on a throne by the scheming of Avalon. As she navigates her way from child to woman to High Priestess of the Holy Isle of Avalon, she tells the story of King Arthur and his knights from her perspective. Morgan Le Fay(really named Morgaine) the bad girl of the Arthur legend, is our heroine. I once had it open on the bar and a bar patron came over, leaned his nose close to the page for a moment or two, looked up at me, squinting, and said seriously: “Is that the Bible?” All I can say about that is, it was about time. The story is told – at long last – from the woman’s point of view. The story of King Arthur, but with a twist.
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