Talk:Kilgharrah/@comment-150.254.73.222-20130511200744/@comment-5674726-20130512000553

It seems too glaring to be a coincidence that, in the episode where Kilgharrah warns Merlin of a future evil alliance between Merlin and Morgana, Merlin not only leads Arthur and his men to the camp where Mordred had made his home, leading to the slaughter of the people he was living with so he was left alone in the world, he also trips Mordred so that he can be captured by soldiers who will kill him. I think that it's a sign of how forgiving Mordred could be that he didn't hold it against Merlin that he deliberately set him up to be murdered.

The very next episode, Merlin poisons Morgana, on Kilgharrah's advice, when there was only his word for it that this was the only way to lift the enchantment. She is then whisked away by Morgause, and returns willing to destroy Camelot.

Either Kilgharrah managed to live a thousand years without learning about self-fulfilling prophecies, or he successfully manipulated Merlin into ensuring that Uther's children would destroy one another, not to mention the kingdom he had built, as revenge for the deaths of the other dragons and for his imprisonment. As an added bonus, he got to ensure that the son of the man who used - perhaps abused, from Kilgharrah's perspective - his power as a Dragonlord to lead him into a trap, would spend his immortal life waiting for a friend who was never coming back.

I'd have liked him if he was a villain, since he'd have been a very clever, successful villain.