User blog comment:Dryuuu/THE ULTIMATE QUESTION BLOG OF SERIES 4/@comment-4650675-20120209161047/@comment-4650675-20120209162202

Also, as I was going through the answers I found another interesting question: Why did Arthur send the people that matter to him most after Morgana on 4x13? She is a powerful witch and a skilled swordswoman, whereas Merlin and Gwen are nothing special with the sword. It's like he sent them to be killed or something (which would actually happen, if Merlin didn't have magic, but Arthur was not supposed to know that anyway).