Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4962906-20151109114315/@comment-25896389-20151113074536

Yeah, I mean Merlin is obviously super powerful but not invincible. If he were, he'd be boring. The fact that he could find a way to appear to others, even across realms, while trapped, shows him to be very impressive indeed.

As for the Hat, I wager he created it sometime before he met Nimue. Maybe he was asked to fight some evil spirits or something and created it to trap them. Just because it was of use to the DO doesn't mean it was created because of the DO.