Merlin is a great character…however I worry that his time on the show is limited.
He had an apprentice just in case something ever happened to him, he’d have someone take his place. I take it the Apprentice was Merlin’s adopted son.
For some odd reason…I get the feeling Merlin was someone enslaved thus him looking like he was on the run in the beginning of the episode. Is there a possibility that at the start of he episode, Merlin was in our world A.C. Era, hence how he found the Holy Grail and just poofed himself to Camelot?
A part of me is holding onto faith that Nimue and Merlin will be reunited at some point…hopefully alive and they just go back to Camelot to live happily ever after, but that is just a dream fighting against the harsh reality that Merlin is going to end up dead with Nimue close behind him.
"If you go as far as you can see...you will then see enough to go even further." - Finn Balor