Talk:Elyan/@comment-92.41.251.250-20121112174213/@comment-5102537-20130813112435

There is no reason whatsoever that everyone on the show should have had a particular skin colour. Aside from the fact that "Merlin" was a retelling, the entire Arthur/Merlin-story is only a legend and a fairytale. As a matter of fact, they could have made everyone being blond or black-haired, they could have made everyone having dark skin or light skin, they could have made everyone having been immigrated from any country of the world. It's just a tale, nothing more. Even Arthur could have been of dark skin colour because in a retelling, Uther could as well have married a woman of dark skin colour. Who says that everybody had to be "white"? They weren't real and there is no real historical background that demands certain skin colour. And even if there were, in a retelling almost anything is possible.