Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20141004175450/@comment-5674726-20141012171604

93.72.140.186 wrote: In S1E4 Merlin was poisoned and still managed to protect Arthur (by the way, I don't think Morgause would spare him). Merlin's magic is instinctive, so it's possible, that he would be able to fight.

It didn't look like he was able to fight in the episode. The psychic link between Merlin and Arthur seems to have disappeared after The Poisoned Chalice, so it may have been a case of early installment weirdness.

Morgause may have wanted to kill Merlin if she knew that he was the one who convinced Arthur that the revelations about his birth were a lie. The Knights of Medhir seem to have left anybody who didn't pose a threat to them alone.