Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20150609161411/@comment-6588773-20150629205538

It's sort of reminiscing to me like how Jafar, in Aladdin, turned into an old man in the dungeon/jail place to get Aladdin to go to the Cave of Wonders. Maybe the Merlin we know, visually, is just one of his many forms... (which we got a taste of in the wizards' dual in Sword in the Stone).