User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/The Cup of Life!/@comment-4623180-20120403132207

I can try and answer some. Warning: Bias.

1. Nimeuh's motives made no sense. I liked her acting, but her motives other than vengeance... her existence was quite pointless. No one except Merlin and Gaius knew she died as well, it's like Uther forgot about her. She wanted to kill Arthur, knowing she wasn't destined to kill him, then wanted to save him and bring him to the throne? I still can't make sense of her motives! Nonetheless, I did love her character and the story she played in it. I don't think she'll return, and to be honest, I don't want another story with her, it's all done and wrapped, we don't want anything made worse.

As for the question, she didn't use it for evil, perhaps because she didn't have allies she could use it for evil on. Morgause's alliance with Cenred and his army, and Morgause's seduction to Cenred is what granted her such power. That's why I think she was a lot more formidable than Nimueh.

2. Merlin said in The Coming of Arthur that he thought the cup was destroyed when Nimueh died. I suppose it could have been buried under some rubble or something.. besides, he didn't care, he just wanted to rush to Gaius, and they probably went home after that to rest, both having taken some damage.

3. Druids probably travel everywhere. Gaius managed to easily make it to the Isle of the Blessed by himself, the Druids probably camp out there when no one else is visiting. Or perhaps it was handed over to them by some random person who thought they could take better care of it.

4. That is a good question!! I thought the same... maybe there was... that of a dying druid, or an enemy.. but druids aren't like that! So that's probably something I'd classify a plot hole, the writers probably didn't realise it.. I think it is a flaw.

5. Morgause was probably searching for it before she met Morgana, otherwise she wouldn't have told Morgana how "long she has searched".

6. Perhaps Series 5 will give us the answers. Maybe Morgana will use it in her alliance with Mordred.

Or maybe it was taken and put in the vaults of Camelot.

I think the writers most certainly would have thought this one over, but were a bit sick of it being involved in plots, so just had it disappear... a bit like Alvarr did! Two powers, capable of a lot of things, just vanishing!

I hope I cleared some things up, or made your questions more.. questionable. :)))