User blog comment:Emily Windsnap/How old are the Merlin characters?/@comment-93.97.109.41-20140119001550

I don't know how old they are, but in series 4 episode 3, the day Uther dies, Arther celebrates his 20th birthday, so he can not be 20 or 21 in the first series like a lot of people think. In the first episode in the fith series, Merlin tells Gwain that his father died "about a year ago" so between the last episode of the second series and the first in the third it has been about a year. Also from the third to the forth series, they say that the king has been greeving about Morganas portrayal for a year, so I believe that every series is a year apart (apart from the fourth to the fith where there is a 3 year gap). If Arthur is twenty in the fourth series like they say, then at my guess he would be 17/18 in series one and be 24 in the fifth series. You may disagree with me but I am going on the clues I have noticed through out the series. I don't have a clue about the other characters but I see Merlin as being slightly younger then Arthur and I see Morgana and Gwen slightly older. I think the knights are probably be in their 20s. I don't have a clue about any of the other characters. Hope this helps :)