Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24762954-20140731125438/@comment-24762954-20140806112719

Fimber wrote:

Since the land was ruined and chaos was brought to it by those who misused magic long before Uther was born (as we know, the Diamair told Merlin that his race was wiped out several hundred years ago), all those battles and wars and also the creatures made by the Old Religion/High Priests and priestesses had nothing to do with Uther.

Even Balinor, who was a peaceful man, represented a group of people who could be and probably were quite dangerous. Demanding such a powerful creature like a dragon was one of the ultimate weapons of power from which nobody could ever defend themselves. We have no idea how Uther managed to wipe the dragons out but logic tells us that he must have used magical help. It reinforces previously raised question about dragonlords:

"Gaius spoke of the nobility of dragonlords!", "Uther believed that the art of the dragonlord was too close to magic. So he had them all rounded up and slaughtered." - There was centuries long war and the dragonlords were powerful and potentially dangerous group. But it seems they weren't part of the war, did nothing worth of attention. On the other hand it could explain how both dragons and dragonlords suffered such heavy losses - if they weren't part of war they couldn't expect attack.