Talk:With All My Heart/@comment-92.40.255.68-20121202000624/@comment-5815946-20121202085246

It is true that in legend Arthur ultimately meets his demise at Mordred's hand, and therein comes the fall of camelot. However, it's also true that in legend Merlin serves as Arthur's wizard adviser for many years, so it would be cheating by a lot to only have Arthur know Merlin even has magic for a brief period of time before Merlin dies (without ever serving his key role as adviser to the king, and living up to his name as the great Merlin!)

Then again, the writers *have* taken out other very big elements of Arthurian legend such as Guenevere's affair with Lancelot being genuine and leading to the fall of Camelot, and Arthur being recognized as the king by pulling the sword from the stone (they'd vastly watered that down). So it's not entirely inconceivable they'd actually destroy the entire story of Merlin as the great wizard and Arthur's adviser.