User blog comment:Merlaa/Is Kilgharah realy wise?/@comment-5674726-20121227215642

On the whole, Kilgharrah doesn't seem to be a particularly good prophet, and at his age and with his claimed understanding of humanity, you'd expect him to be aware of the dangers of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Maybe he saw one of countless possible futures, and either wanted to believe that this was the real "destiny", or else knew that it wasn't set in stone but wanted to encourage it. We don't know how much he can see of the future.

At one point, he tells Merlin, re. Morgana: ''"But I fear that your futures are now joined forever. She is the darkness to your light, the hatred to your love." ''(emphasis mine)

The use of the word "now" is interesting, because it implies that the connection between them was a recent development, not something that was set in stone a few thousand years before Merlin and Morgana were conceived, which would suggest that it wasn't inevitable.

Alternatively, Kilgharrah knew that the future with a united Albion under Arthur was one potential future among countless others, and used the prophesied destiny to gain Merlin's trust and to deliberately encourage a situation where Uther's two children would end up on opposing sides, with Uther's kingdom suffering in the process. Look at the series finale; both of Uther's children are dead, countless citizens of Camelot died during the conflict between them, the current ruler of the kingdom Uther built is a commoner who may end up legalising magic. Uther wiped out the dragons, and now his line is extinct. If Kilgharrah wanted to mislead Merlin to get his revenge on Uther, he would have done an excellent job of it.