Merlin: Ulterior Motives. Merlin: Clip 1. Merlin: Gwen. Merlin: Lancelot's Hope. Merlin: Merlin Hears A Calling. Merlin: Lancelot Presents Himself. Merlin: Lancelot's Test. Merlin: Lancelot's Victory. Photos Top cast Edit. Colin Morgan Merlin as Merlin. Bradley James Arthur as Arthur.
Richard Wilson Gaius as Gaius. Angel Coulby Gwen as Gwen. Katie McGrath Morgana as Morgana. Nathaniel Parker Agravaine as Agravaine. Emilia Fox Morgause as Morgause. Alexander Vlahos Mordred as Mordred. Santiago Cabrera Lancelot as Lancelot.
Michelle Ryan Nimueh as Nimueh. Caroline Faber Hunith as Hunith. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Young Merlin Colin Morgan is a teenager, discovering and then learning to master his magical gift.
Magister Gaius Richard Wilson , King Uther Pendragon's Anthony Head's learned court physician to whom he's assigned as humble page, teaches him medicine, coaches his magical self-study, and warns him of Uther's strong aversion to magic. We know that Arthur was born on the same day his mother died, which triggered the Great Purge.
Now, his actual birthday date is a bit more complicated. Now, I'm not sure if Gaius meant that the Horn is only usable during Beltane, or if the tradition just happened to take place at Beltane. A general summary of 5x03 goes like this: Acquisition of the horn, the coronation anniversary feast, Arthur sets off to the Stones and uses the horn.
Coincidentally, Beltane also serves as a reference points for several other episode dates, but more on that later. Merlin is provably younger than Arthur, but the exact amount is pretty up in the air. What we know is: Ygraine's death lead to the Great Purge, and the Great Purge "ended" with the capture of the Great Dragon [1x01], which is about the time Balinor had to flee from Camelot. All this happened in less than a year or else Arthur wouldn't be 21 in Excalibur.
Then we have to allow time for Balinor to flee to Ealdor, become close with Hunith, and for the 9 months before Merlin was born. So at minimum , Merlin is about 1 year younger than Arthur. Another hint we have at Merlin's age is that Kilgharrah's opening narration changed from "young boy" in season 3 to "young man" in season 4.
If we interpret this as Merlin's coming of age 21 in the gap between seasons 3 and 4, then we have the following. The exact day of Merlin's birthday is impossible to pin down because it's never mentioned in any way in the show. Also, medieval peasants tended not to celebrate birthdays in the first place, so who knows when Merlin's is?
The only time Gaius's age is ever mentioned is in 3x09 Love in the Time of Dragons. Alice gave Gaius a book for his 50th birthday, which was before the Purge. Season 3 takes place 23 years after the Purge, which places Gaius at at least 73 during season 3. NB: the statement "Life expectancy was only around 35 in the Middle Ages" is somewhat misleading.
She demanded that Merlin tell her the name of the poison he'd used, but Merlin refused to do so unless she called off the Knights. After a moment's hesitation, Morgause did as he asked. As Merlin handed Morgause the poison, the people of Camelot began to awaken from their slumber, indicating that the enchantment had been broken.
Morgause quickly used magic to escape with Morgana before anyone could stop her, leaving Merlin with the belief that Morgana was truly dead. In the aftermath of Morgause's attack, Merlin was deeply troubled by what he'd done as well as by what he was about to do. After assuring Gaius that he was all right, he retrieved a sword that he'd stolen from one of the Knights of Medhir and went to honour his promise to the Great Dragon. Before releasing him, he asked the dragon to promise that he wouldn't harm Camelot, but the dragon merely replied that he believed that there had been enough bargains.
Merlin then used the sword to break the chains that held the dragon captive, fulfilling his oath and setting him free The Fires of Idirsholas. Balinor teaches Merlin about being a Dragonlord. Just as Merlin feared, the Great Dragon chose to avenge his imprisonment and the slaughter of his kind by attacking Camelot. Horrified by the deaths of many innocent people, Merlin tried to stop the dragon himself but his magic proved ineffective.
He later learned from Gaius that only the Dragonlords had the ability to command Dragons. The Dragonlords had all been rounded up and slaughtered during the Great Purge , but according to Gaius one had managed to escape: a man named Balinor , who was said to live somewhere in Cenred's kingdom. Believing him to be their last hope, Merlin and a wounded Arthur set out to find Balinor and persuade him to help them.
Before they left Camelot, Gaius also revealed that Balinor was Merlin's father and advised him to keep it a secret from Arthur, as Uther would view the son of a Dragonlord with the deepest suspicion. Shaken by the revelation and blaming himself for the dragon's attack, Merlin was noticeably quiet during their journey.
When they stopped at a tavern for the night, Arthur tried to convince him to tell him what was wrong, but Merlin was able to deflect his questions by claiming that he was worried about everyone at home. After learning from an informant that Balinor was living in isolation, Merlin and Arthur set out to find him.
Arthur succumbed to his infected wound during the search and fell unconscious, leaving Merlin to complete their mission alone. He eventually found Balinor and convinced him to heal Arthur.
Then, while the prince slept, Merlin tried to learn more about his father and persuade him to help Camelot. Balinor, however, refused to help because of what he and the dragon whom knew as Kilgharrah had suffered at the hands of Uther. The next morning, Arthur made his own attempt to persuade Balinor to help them. When the Dragonlord replied that he wouldn't help Uther, Merlin angrily remarked that he was no better than him and that Gaius must have been wrong about the nobility of Dragonlords.
Mentioning Gaius caught Balinor's attention, but Arthur's constant calls for him prevented Merlin from elaborating. He decided that there was no point in talking further and left with Arthur. Fortunately, his words reminded Balinor that there were some in Camelot who had risked their lives for him, and he owed them a debt that needed to be repaid.
He followed the two boys and agreed to return to Camelot with them. Later, while they collected firewood together, Merlin finally revealed to Balinor that he was his son. That night, while Arthur slept, they talked about Hunith and what it meant to be a Dragonlord, and Balinor carved a small wooden dragon which he later gave to Merlin.
Kilgharrah bows to the last Dragonlord. Unfortunately, they were ambushed by Cenred's men the next morning and Balinor was killed in the ensuing battle. Merlin was devastated by this and certain that Camelot was doomed. When he said as much to Gaius, however, the physician revealed that Merlin had inherited his father's gifts upon his death.
As the last Dragonlord, it was now his responsibility to rid Camelot of the Great Dragon. In light of this, Merlin decided to accompany Arthur and his men when they rode out to confront Kilgharrah.
The dragon decimated the knights and knocked out Arthur with a single blow, but before he could do any more damage, Merlin hearing his father's words was able to harness his Dragonlord powers and command the dragon to stop his attack.
He then commanded him to leave Camelot and never return. Grateful to Merlin for sparing his life, Kilgharrah agreed to honor his command. He promised that he would not forget Merlin's clemency and said he was sure their paths would cross again, then flew away.
Arthur regained consciousness soon afterward and Merlin led him to believe that he Arthur had successfully killed the dragon. They then returned to the castle together, where they were greeted by a relieved Gwen and Gaius The Last Dragonlord. Morgause binds Merlin with enchanted chains. During the year that Morgana was missing, Merlin often accompanied Arthur and his knights on patrols to search for her.
Because he believed her to be dead, Merlin was shocked when they found her alive and well and was terrified that she would tell Uther that he'd poisoned her. However, Morgana later reassured him that she understood why he'd done it and said that she would have done the same to save her friends. Her forgiveness cheered Merlin up considerably, but his mood soon grew somber again when Uther appeared to go mad.
After he saw Morgana retrieve a mandrake root from beneath the king's bed, Merlin realized that she was still plotting against Camelot and followed her into the forest, where he observed her meeting up with Morgause. Unfortunately, Morgana was aware of his presence and he was soon captured and knocked unconscious by the Blood Guard. Merlin woke to find himself in chains and Morgause waiting to confront him.
She wanted to know why a lowly servant such as himself would continually risk his life for Arthur and Camelot, but seemed to lose interest when Merlin deflected her questions by stating that he believed in a fair and just land. Declaring that Merlin could take his secret to the grave, Morgause placed an enchantment on the chains that bound him and left him to be killed by Serkets.
After his attempts to free himself with magic failed and he was stung by a Serket, Merlin used his Dragonlord powers to call Kilgharrah to rescue him. The dragon carried him to safety, used an enchantment to heal him of the Serket's venom, and freed him of Morgause's chains. Later, when Merlin lamented that he hadn't heeded Kilgharrah's warnings about Morgana, the dragon tried to console him by pointing out that he'd done what he felt was right, but also warned Merlin that his determination to see goodness in people would be his undoing.
Once Merlin had sufficiently recovered, he asked Kilgharrah to fly him back to Camelot. He told Gaius what he'd learned about Morgana and they destroyed the mandrake root she'd hidden beneath Uther's bed, breaking the enchantment and restoring his sanity. Later, after Morgana discovered Merlin's survival, she threatened to tell Uther about his attempt to poison her if he told anyone about her betrayal.
After it was discovered that Cenred's army was marching on Camelot, Arthur who was acting as regent while his father was indisposed ordered the city to prepare for a siege. Merlin helped out by gathering provisions and tried to reassure Arthur that he'd made the right choice.
He told Arthur that he trusted in his destiny and that it was his fate to be the greatest king that Camelot had ever known. Touched by Merlin's faith in him, Arthur voiced a grudging respect for his wisdom. Merlin fights with a skeletal soldier. During the Great Battle for Camelot , Merlin was responsible for escorting the wounded to the infirmary and helping Gaius treat them. They tried to keep an eye on Morgana while they worked, but she managed to slip away in the confusion and used the Rowan Staff to summon an army of undead skeletons to attack Camelot from within.
As the battle grew worse, Merlin confronted Morgana in the burial vaults and begged her to stop the attack. When she refused and said that Uther's hatred for her and her kind gave her no reason to feel any differently about him, he tried to make her see that she of all people could change the king's mind and told her that he believed her gifts were meant to be used for good. Morgana, unconvinced, snapped that because Merlin didn't have magic he couldn't hope to understand how she felt and insisted that there was no other way.
Accepting that she wasn't going to listen, Merlin tried to seize the Rowan Staff and Morgana responded by attacking him. She managed to disarm Merlin twice in the ensuing duel, but Merlin ultimately emerged the victor after he used his magic to cause part of the ceiling to collapse on her head, knocking her out cold.
He quickly retrieved his sword and used it and his magic to slice the Rowan Staff in half, breaking the enchantment and reducing the skeletal soldiers to dust. Destroying the staff created a magical shockwave that knocked Merlin unconscious.
When he finally woke, he rushed to tell Arthur what Morgana had done, but it was too late. Morgana had beaten him to it and taken credit for destroying the Rowan Staff. Later, at a ceremony recognizing her bravery and that of all those who had died in the battle, Merlin and Morgana glared at one another while Uther gave a speech instructing everyone in Camelot to remain vigilant and stand firm against the dark forces of magic The Tears of Uther Pendragon.
Merlin discovers that Gaius has been possessed by the Goblin. When Merlin accidentally released a mischievous Goblin from a secret chamber in the castle library, he and Gaius rushed to recapture it before Uther found out. Merlin took some gold from Arthur's chambers and they used it to lure the Goblin into a trap, but unfortunately the Goblin was able to escape by transforming itself into a ball of light and entering Gaius's body, possessing him.
When Merlin finally realized what had happened, he tried to reason with the Goblin and convince it to leave Gaius's body. After this failed, Merlin threatened to kill the Goblin if it harmed Gaius, revealing his magic in the process. The Goblin, however, was unfazed by his threats and taunted him by pointing out that he couldn't hurt it without also hurting Gaius. It later used its knowledge of Merlin's magic to frame him for its recent pranks. After the Goblin as Gaius informed Uther that it had found a book of sorcery in Merlin's room, Merlin was arrested and sentenced to death.
Fortunately, Merlin was able to use his magic to escape from prison before his execution and sought refuge at Gwen's house. After explaining the situation to her, he began searching for a way to free Gaius from the Goblin's control and discovered that if they temporarily killed Gaius, then the Goblin would be forced to leave his body or else die with him. Once it was out, they could trap it inside the lead-lined box that Merlin had initially found it in. Merlin and Gwen put their plan into action by pouring poison over the gold coins in the Goblin's treasure chest, which the creature had a habit of licking.
When the poison began to take effect it realized that it was dying, the Goblin exited Gaius and Merlin began to chase it around the chamber. Eventually, the Goblin transformed itself into a ball of light and flew into Merlin's mouth in an attempt to possess him.
Before it could do so, however, Merlin was able to spit it into the lead-lined box and trap the Goblin inside. Meanwhile, Gwen was supposed to administer the antidote to Gaius as soon the Goblin had left him, but in its in rush to leave the physician's body, the Goblin had knocked the bottle out of her hand it had gotten mixed up with a dozen other potions on the floor. Fortunately, Merlin and Gwen were able to locate the right one before the poison proved fatal and Gaius made a full recovery.
Later, after the situation had been explained to Uther, Merlin was pardoned for the Goblin's crimes and the box containing the creature was sealed away in the castle vaults Goblin's Gold.
Merlin and Arthur first met Gwaine when he was injured helping them in a tavern brawl. They took him back to Camelot to recover and Arthur instructed Merlin and Gaius to ensure that Gwaine be given anything he needed. Gwaine wound up causing quite a bit of trouble during his stay in Camelot, including racking up a bill at the local tavern that he knew he had no money to pay.
Despite this, however, he and Merlin got along very well and quickly became friends, bonding over the loss of their respective fathers and their desires to have known them better. After discovering that they planned to use Stulorne Blades to kill Arthur during the competition, Merlin snuck into their chambers to steal one of the swords as evidence.
He became distracted by the mysterious crystals that the knights wore around their necks, and a closer look revealed that Oswald and Ethan were actually Dagr and Ebor the two thugs from the tavern brawl in disguise.
Unfortunately, the fake knights discovered Merlin before his investigation was complete. They were furious to find him sneaking around their chambers and immediately moved to attack him.
Luckily, Gwaine, who had grown worried when Merlin hadn't returned from his errand, arrived just in time to intervene. He easily fought off the thugs with his superior swordsmanship, but was arrested by Sir Leon for breaking the Knight's Code and subsequently banished from Camelot. He used his magic to knock one of the thugs from their horse, but they quickly recovered and resumed their attack on the prince.
However, Uther still refused to lift his banishment, and though Merlin later tried to persuade him to stay, Gwaine was adamant that he could never serve under a man like Uther and decided to try his luck in Mercia instead Gwaine. Taliesin shows Merlin the Crystal Cave. After Arthur was badly wounded by bandits in the Valley of the Fallen Kings , Merlin tried to heal him with his magic , but failed. Fortunately, as the prince appeared to be nearing death, an old sorcerer named Taliesin appeared and used his magic to heal him.
He then took Merlin to the nearby Crystal Cave , the place where magic began. Taliesin explained to Merlin that the crystals contained knowledge of the future and instructed him to look into them, assuring him that much would be revealed if he did. Merlin initially refused, as the last time he'd looked into the future he'd seen terrible things, but Taliesin coaxed him into it by suggesting that there was a reason he'd been brought there at that moment in time and only the crystals could tell him what it was.
Merlin saw a number of visions in the crystals, including one of Morgana murdering Uther. Later, back in Camelot , he attempted to prevent this future from coming to pass, but nearly killed Morgana in the process by accidentally knocking her down a flight of stairs. Gaius did everything he could, but her skull was fractured and she wasn't expected to survive. Unable to accept this, Uther privately begged Gaius to use magic to save her and confessed that Morgana was actually his daughter, a revelation which shocked the eavesdropping Merlin.
Unable to watch everyone's grief, Merlin summoned Kilgharrah and asked him to help save Morgana. When the dragon refused, he used his Dragonlord powers to command him to help anyway. Later, Merlin discovered that Morgana had also overheard Uther's confession and was going to kill him for failing to acknowledge her. Realizing that injuring her hadn't prevented his vision after all, he rushed to stop her and eventually succeeded by using his magic to shatter a window in Uther's bedroom, waking him up and forcing Morgana to abandon her assassination attempt The Crystal Cave.
Merlin collects ingredients for Gaius's potion. When Lord Godwyn and his daughter, Princess Elena , visited Camelot , Uther revealed that she and Arthur were to marry in order to form an alliance between their kingdoms. Merlin was amused by this turn of events and enjoyed teasing Arthur about it, but soon realized that something was wrong when he spotted Elena's nurse, Grunhilda , catching flies with her tongue.
After further investigation revealed that Grunhilda was actually a pixie and that Elena was unknowingly a changeling , Merlin and Gaius realized that a marriage between her and Arthur would give the Sidhe control over the throne of Camelot. In order to prevent this, they decided to concoct a potion that would free Elena of the Sidhe that was possessing her. Merlin was tasked with collecting the ingredients for this potion, including an extremely rare Dropwort flower that only grew in marshy, boggy terrain.
Unfortunately, Grunhilda discovered that Merlin knew about Elena and rushed to inform the Sidhe. Determined to stop him from interfering in their plans, the Sidhe Elder tried to kill Merlin that night. Merlin managed to escape the attack and destroy the Elder with his magical staff , but accidentally broke the potion bottle in the process.
Fortunately, Gaius was able to prepare another one while Merlin devised a plan to lure Grunhilda away from Elena. After locking the pixie in the castle vaults, Merlin and Gaius retrieved the potion and Merlin's staff from their chambers and went to find Elena.
However, Grunhilda soon escaped from her prison and attempted to attack them, forcing Merlin to reduce her to dust with his magical staff. He then entered Elena's chambers and made her drink the potion, forcing the Sidhe out of her and allowing Merlin to destroy it with his staff.
Later, Merlin helped Arthur prepare for his wedding. When he realized how upset the prince was about having to marry Elena, Merlin tried to comfort Arthur by sympathizing with his worries about having a destiny that he couldn't escape. He advised Arthur that an unhappy king would not make for a stronger kingdom and said that he may be destined to rule Camelot, but he had a choice as to how he did it.
Recognizing the truth of Merlin's words, Arthur admitted to Elena that he did not love her and they mutually decided to call off the wedding The Changeling.
Arthur explains his plan to rescue Elyan to Merlin, Gwen , and Morgana. When Gwen failed to show up for work one morning, Arthur became worried and sent Merlin to her house to see if anything was wrong. The place appeared to be empty and unusually messy when Merlin arrived, and he soon discovered a rag abandoned on the floor.
After determining that it had been coated with a very strong drug, he showed the rag to Arthur and they quickly concluded that Gwen had been kidnapped. Though Arthur was able to persuade Uther to send out a search party, no trace of Gwen was found until Merlin accidentally bumped into her the next morning. He was initially relieved to see that she was okay, but soon realized that something was wrong when he noticed that her wrists were badly bruised.
Overwhelmed, Gwen tearfully explained that Cenred's men had kidnapped her and taken her to a strange castle, where she discovered that her brother Elyan was also being held captive. She told Merlin that Cenred had threatened to kill Elyan if she didn't bring Arthur to him within the week. When Arthur learned what had happened, he deduced that Elyan was being held at the Castle of Fyrien and decided that he, Merlin, Gwen, and Morgana would form a rescue party.
Merlin was dismayed by Morgana's inclusion as he suspected that she was involved in Cenred's scheme and tried to convince Arthur that it was a bad idea to let her come along. When this failed, he tried to appeal to Morgana by reminding her that Gwen and Arthur cared for her and she had no reason to harm them, but Morgana, unmoved, merely replied that he would do well to stay out of things that did not concern him.
Determined to stop her from sabotaging Arthur's rescue plan, the next day Merlin used his magic to summon a snake to scare Morgana's horse, causing it to throw her. However, though Morgana injured her ankle in the fall, Merlin's attempt to leave her behind failed when she insisted that she could go on. Later, after the group arrived at the Castle and tried to sneak in through a network of secret tunnels, Morgana used a magic ring to alert Morgause and Cenred to their location, which resulted in their capture.
Fortunately, Merlin and Arthur were able to escape and rescue Gwen and Elyan. Arthur then separated from the group to search for Morgana who Morgause and Cenred were pretending to hold hostage and ordered Merlin to guard the others, but Merlin decided to follow him instead. He caught up just as Morgause was attempting to kill the prince by conjuring a column of fire and quickly used his own magic to cause her spell to backfire.
The resulting explosion caused the ceiling to collapse on Morgause and Cenred, knocking them unconscious and allowing Merlin, Arthur, and Morgana to escape The Castle of Fyrien.
Merlin, Arthur , and Gwaine search for the Fisher King's trident. When the time came to prove himself worthy of the throne of Camelot , Arthur chose to embark on a quest to find the Fisher King's Golden Trident. Because it was tradition for such quests to be completed alone and unaided, Arthur ordered Merlin to stay behind. However, the warlock was later forced to follow him after he discovered that Morgana was attempting to use an Eye of the Phoenix to drain the prince's life force.
Knowing that he would need help to save Arthur, Merlin recruited his friend Gwaine to ride with him to the Perilous Lands. They were given access to the realm by Grettir , the Bridgekeeper, who referred to Arthur and Gwaine as "Courage" and "Strength" and addressed Merlin as "Magic". Before he allowed them to enter, Grettir took Merlin aside and informed him that the Fisher King had waited many years for his arrival. He then advised him not to deny the King what he wished, and to remember that nothing was as it seemed.
After a night spent camping in the wilderness, Merlin and Gwaine were able to track Arthur to the Fisher King's castle, where Merlin found him about to be attacked by a pair of Wyverns. He quickly used his Dragonlord abilities to order the creatures away, and also took the opportunity to remove the Eye of the Phoenix from Arthur's wrist.
Later, when he met the Fisher King and promised to grant him an end to his suffering, he used the crystal to give him the death he craved. Before he died, the Fisher King warned Merlin that Albion's time of need was near and that he alone could save her.
To this end, he gave Merlin a glass vial containing water from the Lake of Avalon , which he said would provide the help he would need. Soon after the Fisher King's death, Arthur and Gwaine reunited with Merlin who had been separated from them by a trap door and located the Golden Trident, after which Arthur and Merlin returned to Camelot while Gwaine, who was still banished from the kingdom, elected to travel south The Eye of the Phoenix. Merlin and Gaius battle the Manticore.
When Uther learned of a physician in the Lower Town that was offering miracle cures, he suspected that magic was involved and sent Gaius and Merlin to investigate. They spoke with the local innkeeper and discovered that the physician had healed him using a totem and a magical potion , but when they later reported their findings to the king, Gaius lied and told him that the innkeeper had been cured with a natural remedy.
Merlin was pleased by Gaius's actions and told him that he was glad he'd protected the innkeeper. Much to his surprise, however, Gaius denied having lied about anything and tried to convince him that neither the potion nor the totem had been enchanted.
Later that night, Merlin woke to find Gaius sneaking out of their chambers and followed him to a house in the Lower Town owned by a woman named Alice. He watched as she greeted Gaius with a hug and invited him inside, then quietly returned to the castle. The next morning, Merlin admitted that he'd followed Gaius to Alice's house and asked him who she was. He learned that she and Gaius had been friends and lovers many years ago and had even been engaged to be married, but had been forced to part ways during the Great Purge when Alice fled Camelot and Gaius stayed behind.
Now that she was back, Gaius felt that they'd been given a second chance. Merlin was pleased for his mentor and did what he could to support his romance, even agreeing to give up his room when Gaius invited Alice to stay with them for a while.
Unfortunately, Merlin soon discovered that Alice had other, darker reasons for returning to Camelot when he overheard her plotting with a strange creature to poison Uther. He tried to tell Gaius what he'd seen, but the physician dismissed his story when he was unable to find the creature Alice had been talking to.
Determined to prove that he was telling the truth, Merlin researched the creature in the castle library and eventually identified it as a Manticore , an ancient creature that was said to reside in another world. Soon afterwards, Uther's medicine was discovered to have been poisoned. Merlin tried once more to convince Gaius that Alice was involved, but when the physician refused to listen, he was forced to take his suspicions to Arthur , who wasted no time in ordering Alice's arrest.
However, Merlin later discovered that, while Alice had used the Manticore's venom to poison the king, she had not been working with the creature of her own free will. Horrified, Merlin apologized to Gaius and told him what he'd learned, and together they decided to cure Uther by killing the Manticore.
In order to kill the creature, Merlin would have to summon the Manticore, then keep it at bay while Gaius used magic to destroy the box that served as its portal to the Spirit World. Their plan was successful and the Manticore was destroyed. Later, after a fully recovered Uther refused to pardon Alice for her part in the attempt to assassinate him, Gaius helped her to escape from Camelot before she could be executed Love in the Time of Dragons.
Merlin uses an ageing spell to disguise himself as Dragoon the Great. After Morgana had a prophetic dream about Gwen being crowned Queen of Camelot , Morgause advised her to do everything in her power to prevent it from coming to pass.
Morgana decided to sabotage Gwen and Arthur's relationship by causing Uther to find out about it, then hid a magic poultice in Arthur's room and led the king to believe that his son had been enchanted. Unable to prove her innocence, Gwen was swiftly arrested and sentenced to death. Determined to save Gwen from execution, but knowing that Uther would never believe Morgana was responsible for planting the poultice, Merlin decided that if he couldn't expose the real sorcerer , then he'd have to invent one.
He used an ageing spell to disguise himself as an eighty-year-old man he later dubbed Dragoon the Great and snuck into Arthur's chambers, where the prince caught him hiding another poultice under his pillow. Merlin managed to escape, but unfortunately the aeging spell proved to be too powerful for him to remove on his own, and he was consequently captured and sentenced to burn at the stake in Gwen's place. Fortunately, Gaius was able to concoct a potion to reverse the spell's effects.
He slipped it to Merlin as he was being led to his execution, after which the young warlock used his magic to set the waiting pyre ablaze. In the confusion that followed, Merlin was able to escape into the castle and use the potion to break the spell. By the time Arthur and his men caught up with him, he had returned to his normal form and was able to explain Dragoon's disappearance by claiming that he'd run right past him, a lie that Arthur believed because Gaius had explained Merlin's earlier absence by telling him that he was spending the day in the tavern Queen of Hearts.
Merlin reveals his magic to Gilli. While readying Arthur's armour for the Decennial Tournament , Merlin was threatened by a pair of thugs who wanted him to attend to their things instead.
He was extricated from the situation by a young man named Gilli , who the two thugs had targeted earlier in the day. Merlin and Gaius later saw Gilli fighting in the tournament and discovered that he was a sorcerer using a magic ring to enhance his combat skills. Afraid that Gilli's secret would be discovered if he continued to use his magic to fight, Merlin tried to convince him to withdraw from the tournament, but Gilli refused. He claimed that without magic he was nobody and that he needed to use it to prove he was special.
He also told Merlin about his father, a sorcerer who had vowed never to use his magic because he feared what would happen if Uther found out, and said that he wouldn't be like him. However, Gilli later changed his mind after he killed his opponent in the next round. Horrified by what he'd done, he realized that Merlin was right and decided to withdraw. Unfortunately, Gilli soon had a change of heart when everyone began to show him the respect he craved and he decided not to withdraw from the tournament after all.
He won his next match seriously injuring his opponent in the process and was slated to face Uther in the finals. Merlin was upset by this and tried once more to persuade Gilli to withdraw, even going so far as to reveal his own magic to show that he understood how he felt. However, his actions ultimately backfired when Gilli, angry that Merlin appeared to be defending the king, accused him of forgetting who he was and declared that it was time people with magic fought back.
Merlin promises Gilli that they will meet again. At his wit's end, Merlin summoned Kilgharrah and asked for his advice.
The dragon sympathized with his plight and noted that it was never an easy thing to see one's kin die, but ultimately reminded Merlin that if Arthur were to see his father killed through the use of magic, it would harden his mind toward it forever. Recognizing the truth of his words, Merlin decided to use his own magic to counteract Gilli's during the finals, costing him the win and saving Uther's life.
Gilli was initially angry with Merlin for interfering and accused him of betraying their kind. Much to his surprise, however, Merlin replied that Gilli was the real traitor, as he'd acted dishonourably by using his magic for his own glory.
Ashamed, Gilli finally realized that it hadn't been magic his father had been afraid of, but the power it had to corrupt the weak. He apologized to Merlin for his behavior and told him that he hoped they'd meet again someday, to which Merlin replied that he was sure that they would. Merlin, Arthur and Gwaine search for the Cup of Life. After Sir Leon returned to court claiming that the Druids had healed him with the Cup of Life , Uther decided to send Arthur and Merlin on a quest to retrieve it before their enemy, King Cenred , learned of its location.
They were captured by the slave trader Jarl soon after entering Cenred's kingdom and were unexpectedly reunited with their friend Gwaine , who was also being held prisoner.
The three were later able to escape together and Gwaine decided to join Merlin and Arthur on their quest. They recovered the Cup from the Druids, but were ambushed by Cenred's men on their way back to Camelot. Arthur was injured in the attack and Merlin was unable to keep the Cup from falling into enemy hands. Cenred's ally Morgause later used it to make his army immortal , then killed him and used the army to conquer Camelot.
Merlin, Arthur, and Gwaine returned to find that Uther and the rest of the court had been taken prisoner and that only Gaius and Elyan had managed to escape. They later retreated to the safety of the woods after witnessing Morgana crowned Queen of Camelot. The group spent the next week hiding in a cave while they figured out what to do about the immortal army.
Merlin used the Avalon Vial to contact his deceased lover Freya , who told him that the Cup of Life had transformed Morgana's army into the living dead and reminded him that the only thing with the power to slay the undead was the sword Excalibur , which Merlin had hidden at the bottom of the Lake of Avalon.
Merlin later commanded the dragon Kilgharrah to carry him to the lake and was given the sword by Freya, though only her arm emerged from the water. Soon after Merlin returned to the cave, he and the rest of the group met up with Gwen and Leon. The pair had managed to escape from Camelot, but had accidentally led Morgause and a squad of immortal soldiers to Arthur's hiding place in the process.
Fortunately, the group was saved by the timely arrival of Lancelot and his friend Percival , who helped them escape by using a small avalanche to block the soldiers' path. The group then traveled to the Castle of the Ancient Kings , where Arthur revealed his plan to rescue his father. Merlin was among those who volunteered to accompany him on his mission and was later present when the the prince knighted Gwaine, Elyan, Percival, and Lancelot for their loyalty.
Unbeknownst to Arthur, however, Merlin and Lancelot were planning to split off from the group after they reached the castle to find and empty the Cup of Life. Armed with the sword Excalibur, they battled their way to the throne room and destroyed any immortal soldiers that stood in their way.
However, Lancelot was injured and Morgause intervened before Merlin could reach the Cup. Fortunately, Gaius arrived and saved Merlin by attacking Morgause with magic. Merlin was then able to use his own magic to smash her into a pillar, seriously injuring her, before using Excalibur to empty the Cup of the army's blood, destroying the immortal soldiers. Merlin places Excalibur in the stone. Horrified by Morgause's injuries, Morgana rushed into the room and cradled her unconscious sister.
Merlin confronted Morgana and told her that her reign was over, but she angrily replied that it had only just begun. She then used her magic to bring the room crashing down around them, but fortunately Merlin, Lancelot, and Gaius were able to escape without injury.
Merlin later placed Excalibur in a stone in the woods, where no mortal man could wield it The Coming of Arthur. One year after Morgana attempted to conquer Camelot , the court was holding a feast to celebrate Samhain's Eve when Merlin had a vision of a mysterious old woman, causing him to faint.
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