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Utter solitude wrote: I also didn't feel like Merlin was given "permission" to drink from the Grail. To me, it felt more like... one needs a humble or pure heart to drink for it, and he had that (as opposed to Adda, who didn't) and him praying before drinking was the way to show the audience that. Not that he was literally getting permission. Nimue certainly didn't need permission when she drank from the Grail.