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Merlin

Myrddin · The Prophet of Britain

majorattestedLegendaryArthurian legend

The prophet and enchanter who engineers Arthur’s birth, hides and raises him, sets the sword in the stone, and counsels the young king — then foretells his own undoing and walks into it anyway, imprisoned forever in a tree or a cave by the enchantress he loved and taught. The wizard who could see every future including the one that traps him.

Light89
Wisdom82
Grace79
Influence72
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Its universe

The mythic order Merlin belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

Voices & connections

Figures bound to Merlin, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

King Arthurteacher of

Relics & objects

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ExcaliburSacred

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Illustrated storyThe Matter of BritainA boy pulls a sword from a stone and becomes the king who builds, for one shining generation, an order of justice out of an age of blood. But the flaw is set at the beginning — a son begotten in ignorance, a love that lands in the wrong heart — and the Round Table that quests for the Grail is undone by the very virtues that raised it. The rise and fall of Camelot, and the king who is not dead but waiting.Begin reading →