[@dreamingflowers] I knew I knew the name "Nimue" from somewhere. In the Merlin TV movie with Sam Niell (where he played Merlin), Nimue was Merlin's lover, and she became so badly burned that she served out much of her life at a convent/temple.

Your Nimue was along these same lines, so I thought perhaps that was it.

Not to say that she's at all a copy. Nimue is a name just like Mark or Beth. And Merlin's Nimue was just a magicless broad in love with a wizard.