Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140723213417/@comment-5102537-20140728100020

Arthur would be dead already and Merlin would have encountered a time of grief and desperation. His destiny wouldn't be to protect Arthur and help him unite the lands of Albion.

Instead, in case there would be a destiny at all, he would have had to either guide Uther and make him change things -

or his job would have been to guide Morgana becoming the one to unite the lands of Albion. This all would be hard to achieve since Merlin couldn't have become Morgana's servant. The best job anyone could have offered to him would be to become a physician with Gaius' help.

As a mere apprentice of Gaius, Merlin wouldn't have had access to all the information he had with Arthur, which would make his job even harder. However, I could see Morgana and Merlin working together, but I wonder what Kilgharrah would have said.

Taking influence on Uther would be something I can't really see since Merlin wouldn't have a chance to come close enough for Uther to even listen to him.