Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130223112431/@comment-5102537-20130226215142

"What I can't figure out is what Valiant's motivation was. He showed more interest in the prospect of escorting Morgana to the feast than in the prize money, so it seems unlikely that his motive was financial and, as lovely as Morgana is, surely valiant wouldn't go to such lengths to escort her to a feast. There was no suggestion that he wanted to defeat Arthur by fair means or foul to take him down a peg or two. He was taking the kind of measures you might expect in a situation where command of the army was at stake, or where Morgana was the child Uther acknowledged and the winner of the tournament would get to marry her and become heir to the throne."

Hmm, true, if he had killed Arthur, Uther surely wouldn't have approved of him and promised him a place in Camelot. Maybe he was just a tool to show the audiences that magic corrupts without a sensible reason. But I agree, his motives were being kept in the dark and it would have been good to know why he was so eager to kill Arthur. It would make sense if Uther would have been someone who had approved of a good fighter even when this fighter kills his son. However, Valiant had no reason to assume that the king would have "hired" him after killing Arthur. Yes, his intentions were quite weird. Uness he really only wanted the gold and didn't care for anything else.