Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140809221552/@comment-5674726-20140809221632

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What if the reason Merlin emerged from the Crystal Cave as an old man at the end of The Diamond of the Day, Part 1 was that he really was an old man; he thought it took him a minute to break free, it was actually sixty years?