Board Thread:What If?/@comment-70.120.101.249-20200326012717/@comment-46593891-20200811142244

In my opinion they would have survived, both Arthur and Mordred. Mordred would have survived in any case, there would not have been a reason to kill him.

There is a reason why so many people told Merlin to be careful, since it was his duty to guide Arthur in order to fulfill his destiny and bring magic to the land, none of them told him that Arthur would die in any case, only that it could happen and he had the power to stop it. The dragon told Merlin that if Mordred lived, their destiny would never come to pass, but this was in the first series and they kind of changed this, because it doesn’t really make sense for Mordred not to want peace and magic in the land.

Magic would have been brought back in any case, but in the episode of the Disir basically it was decided how this would happen, and if it was necessary to kill Arthur to make it happen, or if he was willing to bring magic by his own free will. In the end of the series it is implied that magic would return to the land after Arthur’s death.

The choice was clear: bring magic back or die, even if it was worded differently. This means that, had he accepted magic, his death would not have been necessary. Mordred would not have tuned his back on him since Kara tried to kill Arthur because he persecuted those with magic, and decided to die because she knew that Arthur was against magic. Mordred killed him because he knew that Arthur would not have brought magic back to the land, because when he killed him he told Arthur “you gave me no choice”, meaning that he killed him because of the ban on magic, not only because of kara. Basically the death of Kara proved him that Arthur would not bring magic back. I hope that makes sense, it’s a little confusing!