User blog comment:Merganafan23/Character ages/timeline/@comment-5350801-20120806231335/@comment-5350801-20120810202313

Actually I had 2 points. The first was as Merganafan23 pointed out, Morgana's gender was more limiting than her age in the time period we are discussing.

The second point is, this is fantasy, ANYTHING is possible in fantasy. As Merganafan23 stated, there are powerful woman characters in the Merlin-verse. Normally women wouldn't have a say in ANYTHING, but here they do.

Furthermore, if the show held true to the time period, Merlin would probably be dead by now. There is no way a Prince would allow a servant to call him a "dollop head," or to say the things Merlin says out of turn. I can probably go on with a few more, but I wont.

So take the show for what it is, fantasy. Let's not try to put the rules of the real world into it. Some things, such as age are nice to speculate, I too am curious as to a real idea of ages, but other things are there for the fantasy and story telling reasons.