Medieval times Morgan Le Fay was born in Tintagel Castle, in Cornwall, England, in the days of Camelot, in the Sixth Century A.D. She became a high priestess, and the leader of the Sixth Century cult of the
Darkhold, as well as Queen of Gorre (a section of Britain). She and the rest of the cult used the Darkhold to summon its author Chthon. When they found they could not control him, they sealed the dark god away in
Wundagore Mountain. By this time - convinced that Morgan was thoroughly corrupted by evil - her apprentice and lover
Magnus the Sorcerer stole the Darkhold from her. Along with her lover
Mordred she was the nemesis of the original
Black Knight. During this time, Morgan Le Fay was visited by a supervillain from the future named
Doctor Doom to enlist her in helping wrest his mother
Cynthia Von Doom's soul from Hell. Le Fay agreed on the condition that Doom become the general of her army, undead warriors of those slain by the sword Excalibur against her half-brother
King Arthur.
Iron Man defeated Le Fay causing her to flee to another realm. Doom swore vengeance on Iron Man for this, vowing to see the hero dead.
Conflict with the modern era Morgan Le Fay first projected her astral form from her physical body in the Sixth Century A.D. to the present day. She mentally dominated "Slapper" Struthers, transforming him into the superhuman Excaliber, and directed him to retrieve the Darkhold from Magnus. When he failed, she sent her astral form to get the Darkhold from the
Werewolf, and was defeated by
Spider-Woman and Magnus. Impressed by her mettle in battle, Morgan attempted to enlist Spider-Woman into her eternal servitude, but was denied. Seeking revenge, she began tormenting Spider-Woman with hallucinations, but Magnus came to her aid, and Le Fay's physical body was destroyed in combat with Spider-Woman's astral form. She was able to lock out Spider-Woman's astral form from her physical body, and attempted to possess it for herself. She was thwarted by the
Avengers, Magnus,
Doctor Strange and the
Shroud in a battle on the astral plane. Morgan then attempted to possess the body of Lisa Russell, but was repulsed by Iron Man. Morgan then allied with
Mordred the Evil. She dispatched
Dreadknight, Balor, and other Celtic netherworld monsters against the
Black Knight and Doctor Strange. She attempted to turn Earth into a dimension ruled by black magic.
Avengers assemble again Using the monsters of
Norse mythology, she and Mordred lured the
Scarlet Witch (and a team of Avengers) to
Tintagel in Cornwall. There, she kidnapped the Scarlet Witch and used her reality-warping powers to 'bridge the gap' between her elven magic and an
Asgardian doomsday device known as the Twilight Sword. Using the Sword, she remade reality: the world was now a
Middle Ages equivalent of itself, except that she ruled the world, and had done so for some time. The Avengers stepped in and freed the Scarlet Witch, thus negating the original spell the others were based on, and restoring reality.
Doctor Doom is revealed to be in a sexual/romantic relationship with Le Fay, traveling back to the past in order to carry on liaisons with her. Le Fay has told Doom to bring her back something "of value" as a gift the next time he comes to her time or not to come back at all. He later returns, asking for her help in creating an army of loyal inhuman warriors. Doom offers her whatever she wants, with her response still currently unknown as Doom reappears in the present with his army of
Mindless Ones. Later, Le Fay is seen sadly looking out her window for the return of Doom, who has been defeated and incarcerated by the
Mighty Avengers.
Dark Reign During the "
Dark Reign" storyline, Morgan appears as the
Dark Avengers' first enemy. She used a spell to peer into the future and witnessed the formation of the
Cabal. She traveled into the future with an army of demons. At first, she attempted to kill Doom when he was a child, but then decided to go ahead several decades, so that Doom could fully know why she was going to kill him, choosing after the
Skrull invasion and engaged Doom in magical combat. As Doom begins to lose, a
H.A.M.M.E.R. soldier calls Osborn, and the Dark Avengers arrive to rescue Doom. The
Sentry tears off her head, but she subsequently violently reappeared in his place, and took control over the new
Spider-Man, who attacked
Ares. She is killed again by the new
Hawkeye, but she reappears again. She and her demons are seen fighting the Dark Avengers, while Doom and
Iron Patriot travel back in time to kill her in her own time. However, when they arrive, after an unsuccessful magical assault on the two men (due to the considerable amount of iron in their armor suits, the one substance her faerie enchantments cannot affect), she reveals to Osborn her knowledge that Doom plans to betray her and that if they kill her, it will affect Doom's own lifeline, claiming Doom will fall to his nature and betray Osborn; Doom responds by chanting a spell of a language that even she possesses no knowledge to forcibly send the sorceress into her own enchanted cauldron, despite her screams and pleas. Though Morgan lives, she is sent to 1,000,000 BC where she runs from a tribe of
cavemen fighting a
Tyrannosaurus. Doctor Doom magically restores
Latveria and the revived Dark Avengers head back to America.
Avengers World After having been freed by her daughter Caroline le Fay from her own magic cauldron that Doom trapped her in, Morgan le Fay took over a City of the Dead underneath Velletri, Italy, a mystical necropolis of which there are many below European cities. From here she launched a massive attack with armies of the dead all over Europe. The Avengers and the Euroforce joined forces to take her down, but they were easily overpowered by the hordes of the dead. Sebastian Druid tried to aid the heroes, but he was killed by le Fay shortly after arriving at the city. However, killing Druid worked out against Morgan's plans. He became a ghost of the city which, being one of them, allowed his magic to work, pulling back the armies back to their respective necropolises, severely weakening le Fay. The Avengers and the Euroforce proceeded to beat her up, forcing her to retreat.
Queen of Otherworld Morgan le Fay later resurfaced and planned to conquer Camelot on Otherworld but when the flowers of Krakoa reach Otherworld to form a Gateway to Krakoa, it infected Camelot, causing le Fay to find a way to destroy it. In order to achieve this, she needed to terminate the "Witchbreed", who were responsible for this. After
Brian Braddock and his twin sister,
Betsy Braddock came to fix the Gateway, le Fay apprehended them and took control of Brian, making him to turn on his sister. However, he managed to give to Betsy his amulet, which allowed her to escape. Morgan then allied with the Coven Akkaba in order to deal with the Witchbreeds. ==Powers and abilities==