Chaya Sar - Ganos Lal/Morgan Le Fay

Ganos Lal/Morgan Le Fay

Sarah Strange played Ganos Lal, an ascended Ancient who gave rise to the Arthurian legend of Morgan le Fay. In the Stargate mythology, she was originally an inhabitant of the Ancient city of Atlantis, where a holographic learning program based on her image taught Lantean children about Ancient technology, history and science. When it became clear that the Ancients had been defeated by the Wraith, she fled back to Earth with the other surviving Ancients and secluded herself in meditation until her ascension. When fellow ascended Ancient Moros (Merlin, Myrddin) descended in order to construct a weapon to fight the Ori that could be used against the Ancients themselves, Morgan le Fay was assigned to watch him and, if necessary, prevent his completion of the weapon. Like Myrddin, she eventually came to believe that the Ori could some day become a threat to the Ancients themselves. Morgan eventually found the Sangraal and followed her orders to destroy the weapon. Having come to believe in the threat the Ori posed, she hid Merlin in stasis knowing that some day he might be needed to recreate the weapon, so kept him in an Ancient suspension pod on a planet where he would be safe. She then went about creating the legend of the Sangraal on the planet which would lead to Merlin along with Ancient riddles and challenges for anyone who went looking for the original weapon.

When SG-1 comes to Atlantis to search for Myrddin's weapon in "The Pegasus Project", Morgan le Fay decides to covertly help Daniel Jackson by posing as her own hologram. Daniel Jackson and Vala recognize her as an ascended Ancient and push her to reveal more information, but Morgan le Fay hesitates. The moment she attempts to give more information about Myrddin's weapon, her Ascended peers stop her in mid-sentence, "Merlin's weapon is not...". Morgan is banished by the Others, but she helps SG-1 in the Ori galaxy in The Ark of Truth. She heals Teal'c when he lies dying and appears before Daniel in the form of Merlin after he has been tortured by a Prior. He sees through her disguise, which she then drops. She says she has done everything to help them that she can (presumably she is more free to act as the Ancients aren't in the Ori galaxy) and tells Daniel how to use the Ark to stop the Ori crusade once and for all. Morgan gives Vala the sequence to activate the Ark, and engages Adria in battle when the Ark has greatly diminished Adria's power down to the same level as any Ascended being.