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Bierdopje ID: 5983TheTVDB ID: 80875
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As christianity spreads over Britain, the power of the pagan goddess Queen Mab (Miranda Richardson) is waning, and her world of magic faces inminent extinction. In order to save it, Mab decides to create a semi-human magical being, a wizard that will, she believes, bring people back to the "Old Ways", that is, the pagan religion. She creates Merlin by means of magic, which means that although the child is born from a mortal mother named Elissa, but has no mortal father. Elissa dies shortly after giving birth to Merlin, leaving the child to be raised by Ambrosia, an old woman who used to be a pagan but has since rejected Mab and the "Old Ways". Ambrosia refuses to give the new born Merlin to Mab, arguing that love is needed to raise a child, and Mab cannot provide that. Mab seems to agree on this, and leaves, but warns Ambrosia that one day she will return and take him away. Merlin grows up with no knowledge of his true heritage, until one day, he uses magic for the first time to save a young woman named Nimue, daughter of a nobleman. That's when Mab considers him to be ready. Somewhat unwillingly, Merlin travels to Mab's underground palace, where she plans to train him in magic until he becomes the greatest wizard of all times. Merlin spends some time learning magical skills from Frik (Martin Short), Mab's gnome sidekick, but he doesn´t really like magic and eventually leaves for his old home when he learns that his foster mother Ambrosia is dying. Unfortunately, he arrives late and finds Mab in Ambrosias' home. Furious, he believes Mab killed her, and swears to get his revenge and use his magical powers only to defeat Mab. Years later, Merlin joins Uther Pendragon, the enemy of the tyrant king of Britain Vortigern. Merlin helps Uther win the war against Vortigern (whom he kills himself with the aid of the magical sword Excalibur), believing that Uther will be a just, decent king. However, Mab frustrates his efforts by weakening Uther and making him commit adultery with a nobleman's wife named Igraine. Igraine gives birth to Arthur, who is taken by Merlin as an apprentice not in magic, but in ethic and everything he needs to become the perfect king Merlin wishes to create. Once again, Mab intervenes and manages to get Morgan le Fay, Arthur's half sister, to seduce him. Morgan le Fay then gives birth to a son, Mordred, whom Mab raises to become Arthur's downfall and to bring back the Old Ways. However, Arthur and Mordred kill each other in the film's last battle, and thus both Merlin and Mab lose their protegees and last hopes. Furious, Merlin returns to Camelot, where he finds Mab sitting in the Round Table. Frik, the gnome, explains that Mab is weakened, so Merlin engages her in a magic duel that drains her strenghts even more. Unable to vanquish Merlin, Mab mocks him and tells him that he and his human followers can´t destroy her, but Merlin knows that she is now weak enough. He turns his back on her telling her that everyone will forget her. Everyone leaves, ignoring Mab's furious calls, and soon, she fades away just the way she had feared from the begining.
