User blog comment:GianG/Merlin characters ages/@comment-5674726-20141103011022/@comment-24492510-20141103174242

Yes, I guess you are right about Gwen, I didn't think to this. However, I think that Gwen should be younger than Morgana (even though she seems older), because in Series 1 she was a young maid to Morgana.

"We have most to go on as far as Arthur's age is concerned. He turned 21 in the latter half of Season One. If each season covers a year or thereabouts then, taking the three time jumps into account, he was about 30 at the time of his death."

I think this is an hazardous guess. It is clear that every season doesn't last more of 6-7 months. If you look at Series 1 landspace and at Series 2 landspace, you can clearly see that they are respectively placed in spring (early spring to late spring / early summer) and in autumn (early autumn to late autumn). This means that these two series are placed in the same year and around 3 months passed from the start of Series 1 to the end of Series 2. A year later, Series 3 takes place, but it probably lasts around 4-5 months. Series 4 is placed 1 year after Series 3 and lasts slightly more than 6 months. 3 years later, there is the start of Series 5.

Recapitulating (the years based on how much time passed from the end of the Great Purge)


 * 20 years later: Series 1 (spring), Series 2 (autumn)


 * 22 years later: Series 3


 * 23-24 years later: Series 4


 * 27 years later: Series 5

This is the more reliable explanation, because 9 years is a really a long time!

So, Artù should be 26 at the start of Series 5 and 27 when he dies.

I agree with you about Merlin. I think he was 18 (or almost 18) at the start of Series 1, because he was considered a young man in Series 4 and it is placed around 3 years later than Series 1.

Morgana should be older than Artù, because of her behavior in Series 1 and 2 and especially because she claims to be the rightfully queen. I assumed that she is 1 (or 2) year(s) older, because Katie McGrath is old as Bradley James and because Artù was sheepish when Morgana stated that she battled him at sword fighting when they were kids. Because of this, we can assume that Morgana is slightly older or even younger than Artù (otherwise he wouldn't have been sheepish). Like you said Morgause should have been old enough to have remembered Yigraine. A person memory begins at 2-3 years old, but the clear memory begins at 5-6 years old. So Morgause should have been at least 25 when she first appeared, making her at least 2-3 years older than Morgana. However I think that she is at least 5-6 years older than Morgana, because of her actress' appearance.

Series 3 suggests that Gaius is at least 72 and like I said before the last episode actually take place 5 years later.

I think that Uther is in his early fifties in Series 1, before take place 30 years later than his conquest... and, like you said, he conquered Camelot when he was in his early twenties.