Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20131121000033/@comment-5102537-20131127135606

That's true. On the other hand, when Merlin summoned the snakes for everyone to see, Valiant still fought Arthur in the attempt to kill him. What did he want to achieve? It would have been a better idea to throw away the shield and to accuse others of a set up or something. That way he would have had better chances to survive or to buy some time or whatever.

Trying tio kill the Prince in front of Uther and everyone else was a very stupid thing to do. That's why I'm not sure if he was clever enough to not summon the snakes once he was about to lose the battle against Arthur.