User blog comment:Morganaforever/Is Kilgharrah a good prophet?/@comment-5734522-20121116120246

Interesting article.

1.When it came to Morgana:

I think the show is about destiny. Whatever you do, you cannot escape it. That means, Morgana was meant to be evil. Kilgarah just tried to fight her destiny and tell Merlin kill her. It's not his fault that Mordred gave Morgause the spell to heal Morgana. Morgana is about to bring the old days back but with a lot of pain, war and blood of innocents. Kilgarah may want not wars again, but this to be brought with peace.

2. When it came to Aithusa:

Aithusa healed Morgana probably because she saw her needing help. I doubt Aithusa is an evil dragon. She just followed Morgana after that and wanted to protect her.After all, they've been through so much suffer together. We don't know what will happen next so we can't doubt Kilgarah's prophesies without evidence or enough evidence( because the series haven't came to an end yet).

About the gender. Perhaps it's writer's false. But I still do not know.

3. Same with number 1. Kilgarah just tried to fight Mordred's destiny. Mordred was meant to be evil and Kilgarah tried to stop that by saying Merlin to kill him. Mordred would be bad either way.

4. "No man can change his destiny and noone of us can escape it" (or something like this) - Season 1 Episode 1

"There are many paths" -Season 5

Personally, a Merlin's episode affected my point of view about destiny. I can't remember the number but it was back then when Morgana wanted to kill Uther (not the first time, but when she was evil) and she had an accident because of Merlin but then she was ok again and tried to kill Uther but Merlin stopped her.

Merlin saw on the crystal cave some vissions.Ok, so what's the evidence;

-Morgana with a horse

-A knife

-Red drops of ...? (it appeared to be wine)

-Morgana walking

-Morgana holding the knife upon Uther's head and then Uther oppening his eyes.

Everyone (Merlin, too) believed Uther was about to be killed from Morgana. But was it that? I mean, even though Merlin did try, he didn't achieve to stop Morgana from her actions which was seen in the crystals. She was with the horse, then she got the knife, then she was walking with it, then she was holding it upon Uther's head and then Uther oppened his eyes. And the red drops, which were believe to be Uther's blood where just wine, but there were there just as they were in the vission.The crystals never showed Uther to be killed. Just Uther oppening his eyes because .... (We found out later that he did it because he woke up suddenly and scared). That was what would happen. So, no matter how hard Merlin tried, he didn't achieve to change this vission, this "destiny". Uther was never ment to be killed by Morgana, but the scenes in the crystals were meant to happen and they happened anyway. Merlin trying to stop it, just help it happen. I mean, he told Arthur to by Morgana anything but a knife because ladies prefer jewelleries and what did Arthur get her? A knife full of nice stones. So, Merlin played his part in it.

So, Kilgarah tells Merlin there are many paths, perhaps because he has hope (sometimes) that destiny can change. Or perhaps he means that there are many paths to go to your destiny. The destiny is the same, the paths you follow are different and many.

The destiny can't change in Merlin's world, in my opinion.

Also, Merlin has a very good reason to think Mordred's dangerous. "The vision"he saw.

All in all, I am just saying the series are not over yet, so we don't know what will happen. Things may not be as they seem so only time will tell if Kilgaraf is a good prophet or not.

Hope this helped ;)