User blog comment:Merlinfan/A sword forged in a dragon's breath?/@comment-4892425-20121216144623/@comment-5674726-20121216152649

If anybody was at a disadvantage in the Morgana-Guinevere duel, it was Morgana, who was mortally wounded at the time. Merlin wasn't interfering out of any kind of sense of fair play, he interfered because Guinevere lost the duel.