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I didn't see anybody talk about it once, but amulet of daylight probably holds much more morbid implications for trolls, because daylight is the single most deadly thing to them.

Daylight has connotations of goodness and pureness because we humans are diurnal. But to trolls? Daylight means instant gruesome death.

And Trollhunter wields that power. The sword made to kill, and especially to kill trolls.

What is the missing piece?

This is gonna drive me insane. Ok. So. In Trollhunters part 3 episode 8: For the glory of Merlin, I have been wondering about what piece of the amulet was missing when merlin was rebuilding it (since Jim smashed it in episode 7 to get to Merlin’s cave). When Merlin had “finished” reconstructing the amulet, he said there was a piece of the amulet missing. But the amulet looked like it had all its parts to me.

So, I decided to try and figure out what was missing from the amulet by cross-referencing a screenshot of the broken amulet with images of the amulet.

First, I decided to use the concept art of the amulet that is in pieces and put some colored-coded dots, lines, circles, and boxes on the pieces. And sure enough, nothing was missing.

Initially I thought it might have been the small plate that connects the wheel to the ridge of the amulet. But that couldn’t be it because the rectangular piece of metal was already on the small wheel.

Well, ok. Maybe the concept art of the pieces might not be ideal, since some of the shapes and pieces look different. Then let’s take a look at the pieces of the amulet on Merlin’s blueprint found in Tales of Arcadia's third instalment: Wizards.

More color-coding later. Looking back and forth at the blue print and the pieces in the episode. Yeah, nothing's missing.

So yeah, I really don't think anything was missing from the amulet, as far as I could tell. But apparently, the show says otherwise and now I am stumped.

Also, let’s talk about what was used to replace this mysterious missing piece. Remember what it was that replaced the missing piece? Well, I'll tell you.

It’s one of Claire’s hair clips.

A hair clip…

That’s what used to replace the missing piece.

And Merlin just slips it in the amulet like there’s no problem with this idea.

Just look at it! Look at it and tell me that hair clip wouldn’t have caused any problems with the amulet’s gears.

Seriously that hair clip would have either made the amulet pop, jammed the gears, or have been crushed. But nope.

And would you look at that, it worked. Shoving a hair clip into a powerful, magical amulet made it work.

Merlin’s just like: “Wait, that worked?”

Yeah, I’d be confused to if shoving a small hair piece into a mystical device that gives the wearer a suit of armor, complete with a sword made of daylight, fixed the thing.

Welp, this has been my post about something that is so useless that I tried to figure out.