Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151026005934/@comment-2153169-20151026032756

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Anubis16 wrote: This may be a dumb question, but who's Vortigan  No one.... it is a just placeholder name.

The opening scene implied, that the first Dark One was the woman Merlin truly loved. Which is why he would not kill her, and why she was wearing a mask. The opening scene implied nothing at all; and if it did, definitely not that. Saying it implied that is just a manipulation to have the theory "Nimue = First DO". And no, Vortigan is not a "placeholder name". That character was credited Vortigan in the episodes credits, meaning it is his name.

What the first scene truly gave us: Merlin was transformed into a tree by a Dark One named Vortigan, who killed Merlin's female true love. That's all Xd The rest is still pure speculation for now. And again, that scene never implied that the woman loved by Merlin is the DO. ^^