Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150722161423/@comment-26159109-20150722194515

The apprentice tried to put the Darkness inside the hat and failed. What makes you think that Merlin didn't do the same and failed as well. Maybe the hat can't even contain a Dark One.

Pandora's box or banishing the Darkness out of town could have helped, however everything happened so fast that they didn't have enough time to act on those options.