Board Thread:What If?/@comment-173.245.80.12-20140903054558/@comment-39489211-20190527203628

I'm not saying that magically (sorry for the pun) Arthur would've believed that there was Morgana and a spy of hers behind the necklace, but Gaius-Merlin made Arthur a disservice by not sharing with him about the presence of a necklace that should've never been there in the first place. As far as I remember (I should rewatch the episode/look at screencaps) Dragoon has never been alone with Uther, Arthur is always in the room (and possibly breathing on Dragoon's neck) so there was no way for Dragoon to be blamed (unless he sneaked in Camelot before Arthur went in search of him, obviously). Arthur should've known that someone had hindered the healing magic. At that point it didn't matter whom, the eccentric Dragoon, servant #25, a sneaking Morgana, or knight #84: Arthur was left to believe Dragoon used magic to kill his father, when it wasn't the truth. I don't care if that was useless, that it would've never changed anything about his belief on magic: it irks me that he never knew the full picture of what happened at his father's bedside.

About the bracelet I admit my mistake. It's been months since I rewatched Merlin (which I actually haven't watched many times, not that I think about it) so I erred. I was sure that Gaius and Merlin found the bracelet, while actually it's only us viewers who know about it existence: I was so sure that there was a scene with Gaius or Merlin finding the bracelet in the prison, I have the image stuck in my mind and don't ask me from where it came, because I don't know!

The fact that no-one but Morgana and Agravaine knew about the enchantment actually sucks, especially watching the thing from Gwen's side, although this at least makes Merlin and Gaius innocent. They still held the secret about Lancelot's nature, though. I guess I'm irked, in place of Arthur, for all the secret he was withheld: many were withheld for a reason (protect Merlin), but these two... there was no reason to not tell him.