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In the BBC series Merlin, Uther, played by Anthony Head, has banned magic in Camelot and slaughtered the magic-users. It is revealed his wife was unable to conceive so the sorceress Nimue helped in the conception of Arthur. However to keep balance in the world as a life was made a life needed to be taken, so Uther's Wife died, causing Uther's anger against magic. It is later revealed that Morgana is his illegitimate daughter. In Series 4 he is wounded during an assassination attempt on Arthur. Merlin tries to heal him but due to Morgana the spell instead kills him. In Camelot Uther is poisoned by Morgana in the first episode. Here she is his daughter, but was sent to the convent after he married Igraine.
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