Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20141111204657/@comment-24762954-20141116174928

Merlin's abilities are defined by the plot convenience. It could be that the writers were simply doing what they wanted(and probably, sometimes they were), but I don't think so.

"Merlin" is Kotor 2. It was a Star Wars game by Obsidian, that LucasArts demanded to release too soon. As a result, there was very much of cut content - among other things, one planet was erased(moving interesting things to other planets), and another copied from Kotor 1.

I think, that we were watching something intermediate between the initial series and the writer's new ideas. For example, some of Emrys's traits went to Gaius, some were chained under Camelot, plotholed beyound all recognition and some were supposed to become Merlin. Perhaps, Morgana was closer to her evil version.