Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130223112431/@comment-5147915-20130303124956

That is true. If he had been smart enough to do that. He would have blamed it on Merlin because well Uther wouldn't have believed him if he had balmed Arthur. But had he of blamed Merlin then Uther may have believed that. As Arthur was only going on Merlin's word when he called the audience with Uther on the Merlin's word that it was true.

So yeah. Valiant probably would have blamed the conspiracy of it on Merlin as Merlin was the one who got Arthur to call the audience in the first place. And he also could have added, to prove it was a conspiracy made by Merlin, that he saw him coming out of his chambers. So it would have made the conspiracy view for Uther more believable. But I suppose Arthur would have stuck up for Merlin.

Although no one but Gaius and Merlin saw the snake bites. So no one but them would have seen the evidence that's why they were relying on his word, but Valiant knew he couldn't allow that to happen so he sent another snake to bite him. No one but Merlin and Gaius actually saw the snake bites. Arthur just went on Merlin's word when he called that audience.