Talk:Lancelot du Lac/@comment-184.160.66.93-20130703142215/@comment-37017073-20181105212046

I always figured that the spell was meant to heal/restore any damage that making him a Shade had done to Lancelot's soul, and that his coming back to life was just an unexpected side effect. Merlin seemed pretty surprised by it himself, so I doubt it was intentional (and if it was, he probably wasn't expecting it to actually work).