Based on an old Arthurian short I wrote (and the idea from both a reader and a dear friend of mine), I thought about an alternate means for Arthur’s conception.
Merlin is a shapeshifter in a lot of the old stories and I believe many of us can agree that it’s criminally underutilized. I wrote a short story where Merlin takes Igraine’s form and fucks Uther to make him calm his tits and prevent all out war (I headcanon Uther and Merlin as lovers anyway), but what if he conceived Arthur while in that form? He goes to change back to his normal form and discovers that oh shit, he can’t…and it’s because he’s going to have the magic prophecy baby.











