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knnn:
It had occurred to me that one person that we heard much about is Morgana Le Fay.

Facts:
1) She definitely existed in the in the Dresden universe at one point. 
2) It's her athame that caused Lea's craziness.

Very likely true
3) The "Le Fay" moniker is currently used as an honorific, to denote someone who travels a lot in faerie.  Morgana was either "Le Fay" because she traveled a lot (like Maggie Sr.), or maybe the title was originally introduced in honor of Morgana.  Either way, it's safe to assume she had her Ways.
4) Lea (and WoJ) say that the Athame is power because of who owned it.  I think it is safe to assume Morgana was a very powerful witch.

Speculation
5) In the myths she is associated with Merlin, usually cast as his apprentice, usually as an antagonist.  Given that her athame apparently passed infection along to Lea, it certainly sounds possible that she was infected at some point. 
6) Given that Merlin seems to be a "good guy", it is possible that Morgana was always bad.  Either that, or she had good intentions but was infected.
7) Given Merlin's mastery of more technologically advanced magic, I wonder if the same might be true for Morgana.
8) WoJ is that Merlin is "sorta alive".  What about Morgana?

And finally the WAG:   ;D
- Morgana was a great NN traveller.  In her travels she is the first person to run across Nemesis.  Perhaps she found him Outside, perhaps she ran across his prison somewhere.  In any case, she is the first true infected person.  Bad things start happening (maybe a mini apocalypse). 

- Merlin (her mentor/lover/etc.) finally shuts down the bad guys by creating Demonreach, traps a lot of the Old Gods, and generally saves humanity.  As an aside, he also creates the White Council (with it's anti-Outsider Laws).

- Ok, this sounds a little too much like "The Magician's Apprentice", but maybe Merlin deliberately traps both Morgana and himself inside Demonreach in the hope that someone will eventually be able to cure Nemesis corruption? 
(click to show/hide)Didn't Nic Cage help with the Dresden Files TV show somehow? maybe he stole some ideas from Jim's secret notes?
- Nemesis isn't completely beaten (Maybe Merlin wasn't a Starborn), but he has been trapped/slowed down.  Fast forward a couple of centuries, and a new wizard named "Le Fay" comes across Nemesis' prison and gets infected (or maybe manages to escape).  Realizing the trouble she unleashed, she decides to create a weapon that will finally end the threat -- a "Starborn", a wizard that has special powers over Outsiders.

rekshek:
Interesting, this requires further research and re-reading.

Ms Duck:
just a thought- id say go back much further than la morte de arthur which is where your evrsion of morgan le fey comes from. the charchter is much, much older, and tied into the legends of the sidhe- in several of the original versions, shes not a villain at all, but the good sister of.. Mab.

shes also the mother of Oberon, whom we know also existed.

the reason for sugesting this is Jim is uber geek royale with cheese, and is very very very likely to have read the originals at one point.

 ;D

if you get bored, i made a refernce guide to the similarities between Harry and the classic King Arthur stories Here

(it needs updating, as we now have a lot more WOJ on oberon and Morgan Le Fey)

Elegast:
Interesting.

It reminded me of that WOJ:

--- Quote ---Maggie LeFay, Morgan LeFay, is that a generational name, are they related? 
No, the “LeFay” is something that gets added as an honorific in the wizarding community, it’s one of those kind of mixed names that you give somebody that is sort of a name that she’s earned, so it’s a bit of status, and it also means you’re insane. Which everybody thought Harry’s mom was, being a big-time explorer of Ways and hanging out with Faeries and generally kind of doing things that most wizards considered to be pretty crazily, stupidly dangerous. When you’re somebody who can live for three or four hundred years as long as nothing goes wrong, you tend to be a little conservative, really, you get a lot of benefit from that. And certainly, in Maggie’s case, she was bucking the trend, and we’ll probably get into a little bit more of why she was doing that later in the books.
--- End quote ---

So Morgana was probably infected (after all her athame was a vector for it).

Concerning the 'Sorcerer's apprentice'... Nic Cage may have read the complete synopsis of the Dresden Files. There is one WOJ on the subject after all.

Other WOJ about Merlin:

--- Quote ---) Well, in point of fact, there /was/ a specific Merlin in the Dresden Files universe. He was a critical figure, back in the day, so much so that when he disappeared, his shoes /had/ to be filled.
--- End quote ---


No real coherent thought at the moment, but I think it strengthens the 'Merlin is trapped in DR' hypothesis.

wyltok:
This is a very good catch, knnn! I agree that Morgana was likely patient zero for Nemesis.

Which of course, begs the question: why did Lea agree to receive the Athame in Grave Peril? It almost seems as though Lea (and by extension, the Winter Court) was not aware that Morgana had been infected by Nemesis all those years ago.

On the other hand, Titania knew Nemesis' name. Maybe Morgana spent her time with Summer instead of Winter?

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