User blog comment:Fimber/The thing about magic - The Drawing of the Dark/@comment-4650675-20121216152407/@comment-5102537-20121216155424

Thanks for your comment, Chris. I agree, magic-users are not evil by nature, that's why I wrote that most of them had evil agendas but that there were also those who didn't and don't want to cause harm.

However, the fight between magic and no-magic didn't start with the Great Purge. As the link I posted proves, as well as Gaius telling Merlin that before Uther came to Camelot, magic corrupted and caused chaos. Also Uther told the people of Camelot in the first epsiode already that before he came to Camelot, the land was  in chaos (and since there are a lot of people in Camelot who winessed this first hand, it's not only what Uther claimed, let alone that Gaius confirmed it). Then there was Cornelius Sigan who wanted to destroy Camelot before Uther was even born, as well as there are/were creatures made by the Old Religion in order to destroy men (the Lamia, the Afanc, the Griffin, the Questing Beast and so on). And then, Arthur also confirmed that the land was almost destroyed by magic before Uther came to Camelot. The most important part is Gaius telling this in the profile of Uther's character that you can see in the link, for it's an official character description and an accurate happening.

It's also not true that all the sorcerers who encountered Camelot did it to take revenge on Uther. Take a look at he Sidhe, the Pixies, the Questing Beast, the Afanc and the Griffin (as creatures, not sorcerers), Cornelius Sigan, the troll, the knights of Medhir, King Align who used magic, Cenred who used magic, the Anhora, the Valiant who used magic, the Manticore, Freya/the beast/her curse, the Goblin... not even half of those who used magic/were sorcerers came to Camelot to take revenge on Uther but had total different evil reasons that had nothing to do with Uther or the Great Purge.

As for Morgana, yes, she had a right to know who her parents are, but it's still not the slightest reason for her pathological hatred, her insanity and her horrific brutality. Not to mention that Uther protected several people by keeping this secret, including Morgana and her mother and Gorlois.

The point is, Merlin's purpose and goal is not clear anymore. That's what I was trying to say in the blog post.