Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20151017160320/@comment-6175354-20151202214347

Eskaver wrote: Nope, MErlin's dead and he can't see the future when Nimue's involve.

But he saw everything else, and it is playing out exactly as planned. To quote Dark Hook, "you are only a pawn if you do not know you are being used".... which is why Nimue is nothing more than Merlin's pawn.