User blog comment:Morganaforever/Series 5 radical changes/@comment-194.82.210.247-20120115211528

As far as I'm aware Lot was not mentioned before series 4, i wonder whether the writers are bringing in his character to be used in the next series. Perhaps there will be an alliance or even a marriage between Lot and Morgana. In Morgana's vision at the beginning of the series, she is obviously in command of an army, these could be lot's men.

I agree that Merlin's magic definately needs to be revealed next series to not exhaust the formula. This in the long run has been planned by the writers since they had always intended to do five series, but I'm concerned that if the BBC do grant further series, it would be delayed. If Mordred comes back in series 5, he would be the one to tell Morgana who Emrys really is, but it would be much more entertaining to see a situation where merlin is forced to reveal who he is and then confront Morgana.