Board Thread:(Re)Writing "Merlin"/@comment-5674726-20141115233659/@comment-26134620-20150309181831

Outstanding analysis, ReganX. However, I don't think that the writers were that smart! On my part, I dislike the concept of fate. What drives me nuts, however, is how only the bad prophecies come to pass. What about Albion, what about the land in which sorcerers and non-sorcerers live as equals?

Anyway, I would have added a concept in the whole prophecy thing - the Unforseen - a person, who can appear and change the future as it is fortold. No body can predict the Unforseen, only it is known that such a person can be born. Now, in my story, such person would be the evil wizard (there is a reason he is not called a "sorcerer") Mallageant. He could be either a redeemer or a destroyer. He chooses the way of hatred and doom and his actions lead to strange events - alliance of Arthr and Morgana agaisnt him, the battle at Camlann and the legendary ending