Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20151225192609/@comment-25926288-20151225232144

CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote:

2. The mysterious hat, which would eventualy lead to the Sorcerer, which would eventualy lead to nothing. This isn't really true though, the Sorcerer is Merlin, and is the thing that ties all of 4 to 5A and the Camelot arc. If anything, this should be the one thing you should be happy about, because it shows quite a bit of forethought by the writers, including it in 401, and not having the payout of Merlin being until 5A. As a clue, it is. As a macguffin, it was the non-Chekov's gun. It didn't help get brought back up to Merlin. We didn't get it shown made or even with the Apprentice.

Even Farerb's words say that it leads to Merlin, but it didn't actually get used successfully ever. Unlike the Pandora's box and Crimson Crown and even the Gauntlet which did.