User blog comment:Fimber/Why I understand Uther's reasons for banning magic - and why no one is a saint on "Merlin"/@comment-3325613-20120530111416

Then (just for now XD) I'd like to make this final comment: my view about magic is, I think, totally different form yours. I think magic must return to Albion and that the Great Purge was the most horrible and unnatural thing Uther could have done, not just because of the murders of innocent people. As Merlin says in S4Ep3 "Magic is all around you. It is woven into the very fabric of the world" and before that Kilgarrah had said in S1Ep13 "The Old Religion is the magic of the Earth itself. It is the essence which binds all things together". Magic isn't something unnatural but, in the Merlin universe, is one of the fundamental aspects of the world (maybe the most important one). Trying to deny it or to stop it, putting it aside, is like trying to prevent men from doing something that regards their own humanity and the true nature of the world they life in. A kingdom (and a world, in the Merlin universe) in which magic isn't given its true meaning and its true importance isn't a real one, and that's what Merlin and Arthur must do with the creation of Albion.