Morgan Le Fay

Morgan Le Fay

"How much can one allow themselves to be taken advantage of? You're tired of your undeserved suffering, are you not? Doesn't it make you feel shame? You entrusted your life to the man who had deceived you, who had taken away what is rightfully yours, like sand slipping through your fingers. Do you not feel the humiliation upon realizing you are but a pawn in his scheme, played to look the fool and manipulated into believeing in his farce of benevolence. This insult shan't go unpunished, this death and loss caused by this abomination will never be forgiven. Though you are all but a boy, you know more than anything that the only consequence awaiting your enemies is death. I am your heart and your soul, your rage is mine and my power is yours. Surrender to it, let the rage and wrath of Inferno consume you and give you power! Let the shame and humiliation turn themselves into a blinding vengeance that you may rain down your wrath upon this abomination! Let us forge a contract, a contract to exact your vengeance upon those who wrong you. Stain your hands with their blood, and bathe in the crimson warmth of your triumph. I am thou. . . Thou art I. . . Let your rage consume you and call upon me."
― Morgan Le Fay, Persona 5

Morgan Le Fay is a Persona from Persona 5.

History

Morgan Le Fay ( /ˈmɔːrɡən lə ˈfeɪ/, alternatively known as Morgan le Faye, Morgen, Morgaine, Morgain, Morgana, Morganna, Morgant, Morgane, Morgne and other names) is a famed character and figure from Arthurian Legend. is a powerful enchantress in the Arthurian legend. Early works featuring Morgan do not elaborate her character beyond her role as a fay or sorceress. She became both more prominent and morally ambivalent in later texts, in particular in cyclical prose works such as the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, in which she turns into a dangerous enemy of King Arthur and is an unpredictable antihero and antagonist of some tales.

Morgan first appears by name in Geoffrey of Monmouth's “Vita Merlini”, an account written in about 1150 of the wizard Merlin's later adventures, elaborating on some episodes from Geoffrey's more famous earlier work, “Historia Regum Britanniae”. In the “Vita Merlini”, Geoffrey describes Avalon, the Isle of Apples, where Arthur is taken to be healed after being seriously wounded at the Battle of Camlann, and specifically names "Morgen" as the chief of nine magical sisters who dwell there (a role as Arthur's otherworldly healer Morgan retains in much later literature, such as that of Chrétien de Troyes).

Medieval Christianity, however, had a difficult time assimilating a benevolent enchantress. She gradually became more and more sinister, until eventually she was portrayed as a witch who was taught the black arts by Merlin, and who was a bedevilment to Arthur and his knights, with a special hatred towards Queen Guinevere.

Morgan's role is greatly expanded in the 13th Century French “Lancelot-Grail” (also known as the Vulgate Cycle) and the subsequent works inspired by it. In these stories, she is sent to a convent when Uther Pendragon (Arthur’s father) kills her father and marries her mother, Igraine. She begins her study of magic there, but is married by Uther to his ally Urien. She is unhappy with her husband and takes a string of lovers until she is caught by a young Guinevere, who expels her from court in disgust. Morgan continues her magical studies under Merlin, all the while plotting against Guinevere.

In his book, “Le Morte d'Arthur”, published in 1485, Thomas Malory mostly follows the portrayal of Morgan in the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Cycles, although he expands her role in some cases. Through both magic and mortal means, she tries to arrange Arthur's downfall, most famously when she arranges for her lover Sir Accolon to obtain the sword Excalibur and use it against Arthur in single combat. When this ploy fails, Morgan throws Excalibur's protective scabbard into a lake.

The modern image of Morgan is often that of a villain, a seductive, megalomaniacal sorceress who wishes to overthrow Arthur, sometimes assigning to Morgan the role of seducing Arthur and giving birth to the wicked Mordred, although traditionally Mordred's mother was Morgan’s sister, Morgause. Marion Zimmer Bradley's “The Mists of Avalon” presents a different view of Morgaine's opposition to Arthur, depicting her actions as stemming from her fight to preserve the native Pagan religion against what she sees as the treachery and oppression of Christianity. She has also been widely portrayed in comic books and other more or less speculative novels and movies.

Appearances

• Persona 5: Devil Arcana
  
  

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