Board Thread:What If?/@comment-86.99.63.102-20140413164432/@comment-24629321-20140414153646

Interesting scenario! Everyone seems to have their own theory about what happened after the show... there is another user on here who I know has written an entire long fanfiction about after the end of Merlin. (I'm sure many others have too!) Your view takes the interesting angle of bringing things back to the status quo, as opposed to many others that probably deal with the fallout of losing Arthur from the surviving characters' points of view, and still others which reincarnate him in modern times—I think that's a thing, sorry if I'm off base there. I haven't actually read any of these, but I do think it's part of the fun of the show that we can all fill in our own ending.

What if, for instance, Arthur never returns to the mortal realm? (Because you know Kilgarrah never actually quite got his prophecies right...) That the version of Albion Arthur is now destined to protect is the afterlife, the sanctuary for the good spirits of those who lived in his time? (The good spirits must go somewhere, because that spirit world Uther was in didn't look too pleasant.) And when Merlin finally either dies, or decides to move on, or goes looking for Arthur, he'll end up walking up the same path as all those years ago, to find himself in Camelot, where all his friends have been waiting for him and watching over a united Five Kingdoms in the afterlife?

I would love to hear others' theories too about what happens after the series ends. I might have to start reading fanfiction... maybe after a few months when I'm no longer working 50-hour weeks!