User blog comment:Fimber/Why I understand Uther's reasons for banning magic - and why no one is a saint on "Merlin"/@comment-4814726-20120628000258

When Gaius said that magic was used for evil purposes b4 the great purge, we can't know for sure on hos large a scale the actual EVIL bit was. A great deal of it could have ben good, but that wasn't broached vry much. SO UNLESS THE WRITERS DECIDE TO DO SOME CLARIFICATION THEN THIS LEFT TO OUR IMAGINATION, hear that writers? You readin this blog? Please?!

I must point out one crucial factor that makes magic an overall good thing. Unicorns!

Some might say that the unicorn was actually bad becuz it caused the land to die. But I say that the land was dying becuzthe unicorn wasn't there to preserve it with it's magic. So in order to make the land better the unicorn had to be brought back to life. Otherwise the unicorn would have stayed dead at the end. The reason the crops and human water supply died was becuase they were first in line. As the days continued the land got worse and worse and I bet if the unicorn had stayed dead then all the trees would have died too. Mind you Im basing this off MERLIN WORLD universe not the REAL WORLD universe.

I can see why you would be inclined to believe that magic isnt an overall good thing since in the show it as only been used as an arsenal for our hero to fight. We havent seen a lot of good creatures or good magic like unicorns or phonixes, dwarves, elves, fairies(not including the sidhe), nymphs, merpeople(mermaids). We've seen the dragons butit seems the writers are determined to make them under-developed evil characters as well. (NOTE In my mind Aithusa will remain a cute lovable dragon whom has a name that means LIGHT OF THE SUN merlin writers! Look over your material b4 you publish it and have to make up some excuse like the light of the sun also gives you burns and skin cancer so it doesnt have to be a hope for Albion)