About

Morrigan grew up the firstborn and only son of Bran and Sabina, old rulers of the Court of Shadows. He was born just minutes AFTER Neamhain, and his merciless father, true to archaic patriarchal values as he is, absolutely hated this and always reminded Morrigan of this throughout his childhood. Bran made the two of them spar constantly, and, because Neamhain was terrified of what her father would do if she didn't fight honestly, she always won. Even after their coming-of-age ceremonies, wherein young Shadow Court Fae receive their full power set by giving up a part of themselves to the Shadows, Morrigan was still seen as relatively meek in his father's eyes.

Morrigan caught Maeve, then a Spring Court Faery and handmaiden to Lady Philomena, trying to break into the Shadow Court's forbidden libraries. He foolishly placed trust in her, vowing not to become his father, and let her borrow spell books to study other forms of magic. A friendship, maybe something more, formed. Maeve soon stumbled across Carman, who realized she could use the tree nymph as a Trojan horse to break into the Court of Shadows. She twisted Maeve's mind and the nymph goes dark, shedding her Springly appearance as she undergoes the Shadow Ritual and gives up that part of herself. The uprising happened soon after, and Neamhain and Morrigan began to work the binding spell to stop Carman. It sorely backfired, resulting in Carman's essence becoming trapped inside Macha's body, but not before she threw spells at both Morrigan and Neamhain in fury, binding him to Maeve and banishing his twin, never to be found again.