Nonetheless, Mordred revealed a dark and vengeful personality when he told Merlin that he would never forgive or forget him after Merlin led Arthur and his knights to Mordred's camp and tried to stop him from escaping.
Mordred as a young boy keeps calling Merlin "Emrys", which is actually Merlin's name as a Celtic druid and sorcerer. In Welsh, Merlin's full real name is actually Myrddin Wynn Emrys. Myrddin is his first name, Wynn is his family name and Emrys is his druid name.
The Vulgate Cycle states that Mordred began his career as a good knight, until he and Sir Lancelot met a hermit who told the young man of his true parentage as Arthur's incest-born son, and how he would destroy everything his father had built.
In the BBC series Merlin, Mordred is one of the antagonists. He initially appears to be a sympathetic character when he is a child, but he grows up to be a major threat to the kingdom, eventually killing Arthur in battle.
Merlin and Mordred - Merlin - Series 5 Episode 11 - BBC One
Who is Mordred in love with?
In one version, for example, Mordred is identified as the result of Arthur's affair with Morgause, a woman he later learns is his half-sister. In these later stories Mordred is also in love with Guinevere and fights his uncle/father to his death in an effort to win her love.
A popular version from the French prose cycles tells of Merlin being bewitched and forever sealed up or killed by his student, the Lady of the Lake, after falling in love with her. Other texts variously describe his retirement, at times supernatural, or death.
The Prose Lancelot indicates Mordred was about 22 years old at the time, as well as just two years into his knighthood. Eventually, Mordred overthrows Arthur's rule when the latter is engaged in the war against Lancelot (or during the second Roman War that followed it, depending on the version).
King Uther Pendragon is the overarching antagonist of the 2008 BBC series Merlin. He is the father of Arthur and Morgana Pendragon and was the ruler of Camelot up until his death in season 4.
Merlin soon works out that he has two options - Morgause could undo the spell or Morgana has to die if Camelot is to be saved. This leads to the ultimate betrayal being committed, with Merlin taking advantage of Morgana's disheveled mind to slip poison into her water.
Unbeknownst to him, Lenore had kept the sword hidden from him but told him that it had been destroyed. After the sword was removed from his body, Merlin lost his magic, though he tried to keep that hidden from others in order to keep up the appearance that he is still very powerful.
First off, Mordred tried to overthrow King Arthur and take the throne. As a result, the king considered him a potential threat to his reign and knew that he was capable of doing anything to get his hands on power. Secondly, Arthur distrusts Mordred because he attempted to steal the wife's king.
Instead of telling her about his powers in order to comfort her about her own, he tried to help without showing he actually understood her fear. As a result, it is Morgous instead of Merlin who teaches Morgana about magic and its purpose, so Morgan's learns to use her power for evil instead of for good.
Older Mordred's crimes include murder and treason. Some later versions of the Arthurian Legend tell that he is the incestuous son between Arthur and Arthur's half-sister Morgan le Fay, while others name him as the son of Arthur's other half-sister Morgause and her husband, King Lot, hence Arthur's nephew.
Mordred, in order to repay his debt, then stabs Morgana which allows Arthur and Merlin to escape with their lives. He is then taken back to Camelot and is knighted. He later visits Merlin and takes back his threat from many years ago stating that Arthur is good and that Merlin can trust him.
In the versions where Guinevere is presented as a evil-doer, she is guided either by malice toward Arthur or overwhelming love for Lancelot. In the versions of the legend where she is most conniving and evil, she is seduced by Mordred in an effort to betray and overthrow Arthur's reign.
Merlin in the TV adaptation is black, which is strange for two reasons: First, Merlin is not black in the books. He is effectively a priest of a people that were almost entirely white, and an elder. I'm sure Nathaniel Martello-White is a fine actor, but he is also not old enough to play the Merlin from these books.
Merlin was a great and powerful wizard who lived centuries before our story takes place. He studied at Hogwarts and was a Slytherin. JKR got his name from Merlin, the wizard-advisor of King Arthur. In fact, we Potterheads like to think that our Merlin was King Arthur's advisor.
Merlin was born sometime during the medieval era. During his formative years, he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and was sorted into Slytherin House; possibly being taught by Salazar Slytherin himself.
One of the earliest examples of this is Merlin, a legendary figure in the wizarding community whose abilities in certain areas were surpassed only by his depth of knowledge of the craft. That is true to such an extent that he is the only character who can rightly say he would defeat Voldemort -- and do so quite easily.
She couldn't understand why they always seemed one step ahead of her of all times. However, Morgana soon got the answer she desired most in "The Drawing of the Dark" when Mordred revealed Merlin's identity as Emrys.
