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.
Arthur decides to meet Morgana's army at Camlann, unknowingly fulfilling the Catha Prophecy. Merlin regains his magic at the Crystal Cave, the birthplace of magic itself. Balinor reveals that Merlin is the embodiment of magic itself and helps him realise his true power.
Merlin shows Nimue his past with Lenore. They first met, when Merlin had deep pain, so Lenore took out the sword out of him, causing him to lose his magic. After times of love, he is enraged and she asks him to leave.
In the Perceval en prose (also known as the Didot Perceval and also attributed to Robert), where Merlin is the initiator of the Grail Quest and cannot die until the end of days, he eventually retires after Arthur's downfall by turning himself into a bird and entering the mysterious esplumoir, never to be seen again.
Why was the TV series Merlin canceled? They always planned it the way it was. It wasn't canceled it just ended. The writers always said they only ever planned for five seasons.
why don't you use magic? [5x13] [BBC "The Adventures of Merlin"]
Will Merlin ever return?
Originally Answered: Is merlin having a sixth season? Unfortunately, no. The series was meant to end after 5 seasons. With Arthur dead, there isn't really much of a story to tell, if any.
Both the Myrddin of the early Welsh poems, then, and the Merlin of Vita Merlini, were depicted as wild men and prophets. Each of them had taken part in a battle which caused him to slip into madness, and to flee into a forest where he lived as a wild man.
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.
Avalon: In some versions of the legend, it is said that after King Arthur's death, he was taken to the mystical island of Avalon to be healed or to await his eventual return.
Eventually, since she cannot free herself of him otherwise, she decides to trap him under rock and makes sure he cannot escape. She is tired of his sexual advances, and afraid of his power as "a devil's son", so she does not have much of a choice but to ultimately get rid of him.
Merlin did not, in any myth about him with King Arthur. He was betrayed by Nimue on Morgana's orders in Malory's version. In the alternative version, Nimue acted on her own decisions, and Morgana took advantage of Merlin's absence.
The main antagonist of season 3, Morgause is a mighty foe and Camelot's most powerful magic user upon Nimueh's death. She is also a talented swordswoman, fierce enough to best Arthur in hand-to-hand combat. As one of the last remaining High Priestesses, Morgause is skilled in all forms of magic.
At some point in his life, Merlin studied the five secret rooms at Hogwarts that would one day come to be known as the fabled Cursed Vaults and obtained an understanding of not only the purpose for their existence, but also the ancient magic surrounding them.
Arthur was indoctrinated to believe magic led to people becoming power-hungry and evil. All his brushes with magic ranged from annoying to traumatizing. It took the time for him to become practically brothers with Merlin. It took time for him to get to the point where he might slightly accept him for his magic.
Arthur was unaware of Merlin's powers until the very last episode of season 5 ("The Diamond of the Day: Part 2). In one of Merlin and Arthur's best moments, both men share a beautiful but bittersweet conversation as Arthur's discovered everything Merlin had done and sacrificed for him.
In the Tavola Ritonda, Camelot is abandoned and falls to ruin after the death of Arthur. From Geoffrey's grand description of Caerleon, Camelot gains its impressive architecture, its many churches and the chivalry and courtesy of its inhabitants.
In the actual legend Merlin never married, nor did he have any children - though the woman Nimue did indeed cause his downfall by seducing him. Here, Merlin breaks his vows of celibacy before the story of Arthur begins (which we learn in a brief prologue) and is punished for it by the gods.
Some have speculated that they shared something more than friendship, and the producers confirmed this in the commentary of the last episode, "Diamond of the Day part two." Julian Murphy called it, "A love story between two men."
Gaius persuaded Nimueh to kill him so that both Merlin and his mother could live. It seemed that Gaius actually did die but Merlin arrived and, enraged by the death of his friend and mentor, slew Nimueh. In killing Nimueh, Merlin restored balance to the world, mastering the power of life and death and reviving Gaius.
Merlin later makes some tellings of the future, and is allowed back into the forest. Before he leaves, however, he goes to talk to his wife. His wife's name was Gwendoloena, and she lived together with Merlin's sister.
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.
In this verse play, based largely on the Vita Merlini, Geoffrey's Ganieda is split into two characters, Merlin's sister Gwyndyth and Redderch's queen Langoreth. Their attitudes to Merlin in his madness are contrasted: Gwyndyth patient and comforting, Langoreth exasperated with how well he is being treated.
One of the saddest moments came in the episode "The Fires of Idirsholas" as fans saw the beginning of Morgana's descent into evil. After teaming up with her sister, Morgause, Morgana becomes unaware that she is being used as a vessel in her sister's plan to take over Camelot.
One of the sole reasons Morgana turned into a villain was because she was corrupted by Morgause. With Morgana in Morgause's company for a year, the witch successfully brainwashed her sister into believing Uther and Arthur were the real evil.
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.
