Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140723213239/@comment-5674726-20140809222534

Machairodus wrote: ToReganX- in S1E1 Merlin was trying to understand himself and the reason he have his power, so all of it was only a question of time. At some moment Merlin had to go from Ealdor.

But not necessarily to Camelot. Had he stayed home even a few months longer, there may not have been much of a Camelot left for him to go to.