User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-50.159.54.248-20140708210731/@comment-24754018-20140710000702

First of all, did not know Merlin had True Magic (you'd think there would be a mention of that in his entry, oh well). That sort of means I'll have to change my evaluation of him.

As for Merlin still being around, I was actually going to mention seeing a translation about that on BL in my first comment in this line, but I realised I couldn't source it exactly so I decided not to. Still at least now I have some hope that I didn't completely imagine it.

I think one of the posts afterwards pointed out that since the Throne of Heroes was outside of time, he could be servant even if he technically hasn't died yet. But I'll have to find the page if I ever want to be sure.