Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20130929195047/@comment-5102537-20131007124256

Merlin probably would have never met his father and not become a dragonlord, at least not so soon.

In regard to Ongard Odin's scenario, Cenred or Morgana and Morgause (or all of them) would have had to deal with Kilgharrah imprisoned in the caves under Camelot. Would the dragon then have adviced Morgana?

That is, if Merlin hadn't freed Kilgharrah. On the other hand, the dragon may have found another way of making Merlin freeing him and without Merlin knowing about his mother's death, he wouldn't have a reason to not grant Kilgharrah's wish.

I'm still almost sure that the life for a life-policy was especially the doing of Nimueh with the involvement of the Questing Beast. The Questing Beast would have been killed in any scenario but Nimueh would have survived. So would Nimueh have summoned/created/demanded/whatever a new creature or Questing Beast or would she have continued the life for a life-policy in any other way? If so, healing Morgana in "The Crystal Cave" would have come to a terrible price and someone close to Uther would have died, probably Arthur since Morgana was healed and Gaius was a good friend (at least in the beginning of the show) but not a loved one of Uther's.

But would the Crystal Cave have shown Merlin the same visions or would it have delivered a whole different story?

And if Nimueh had survived, she most certainly would have continued fighting Camelot, so chances would have been that Morgana and Nimuhe had joined forces.