Beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Arthurian legend birthed triumphant adventure tales of Arthur's defeat of a Roman army, the idyllic Camelot (King Arthur's court), and the virtues of the noble knights. Merlin was illustrated as a young boy who was an advisor to King Vortigern of Britain.
Derived from the name Myrddin, Merlin is a baby boy name of Welsh origin, meaning “sea fortress.” From the medieval era to World War II, forts have been used to defend nations against enemy ships and planes.
Merlin's traditional biography casts him as an often-mad cambion, born of a mortal woman and an incubus, from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities. His most notable abilities commonly include prophecy and shapeshifting.
Merlin, enchanter and wise man in Arthurian legend and romance of the Middle Ages, linked with personages in ancient Celtic mythology (especially with Myrddin in Welsh tradition).
Merlin is in love with the Lady of the Lake despite his age, and every time she comes he promises to teach her magic in exchange for her love. Every time this happens, she binds him in the tree by using magical thread which the Norns had at one time taught her how to spin.
Some have speculated that they shared something more than friendship, and the producers confirmed this in the commentary of the last episode, "Diamond of the Day part two." Julian Murphy called it, "A love story between two men."
Merlin in the TV adaptation is black, which is strange for two reasons: First, Merlin is not black in the books. He is effectively a priest of a people that were almost entirely white, and an elder. I'm sure Nathaniel Martello-White is a fine actor, but he is also not old enough to play the Merlin from these books.
According to the legend, Merlin was born to a human mother and a demon father. He gained his magical powers from the demon. Some stories said that Merlin was evil. Others said that he was good, despite his demonic background.
Merlin has always been obsessed with magic, and Arthur's Chaos was a new development she wasn't fully familiar with. Hence, it served as the perfect development for Merlin to fawn over. During Arthur's awakening as the "King of Chaos," Arthur's friend and pet, Cath, revealed its nature.
He helps him establish the round table and fight off the many people who threaten the young king. Merlin fundamentally shapes the kingdom that King Arthur develops. Arthur would not be king without Merlin. In contemporary versions of the legend, Merlin is almost always depicted as good.
Merlin is a cool and calculative member of the Deadly Sins who bears the Sin of Gluttony, symbolized by the Boar symbol tattooed above her neck, normally in the form of an attractive raven-haired woman in skimpy clothing, Merlin is a 3000-year-old witch known as the "Daughter of Bérialin" as her true name is ...
Adult male Merlins are slaty gray to dark gray; females and immatures are browner. The chest is usually heavily streaked and the underwings are dark. The dark tail has narrow white bands, and the face often lacks a prominent malar or “mustache” stripe.
In Welsh, Merlin's full real name is actually Myrddin Wynn Emrys. Myrddin is his first name, Wynn is his family name and Emrys is his druid name. In the original Arthurian legend, Mordrid and Arthur are half-brothers.
There is also a female version of Merlin in Fate/Prototype. This description will be of his male appearance. He has the ability to shapeshift so even if this is how he appears most often it is not known if it is his true form.
Merlin later makes some tellings of the future, and is allowed back into the forest. Before he leaves, however, he goes to talk to his wife. His wife's name was Gwendoloena, and she lived together with Merlin's sister.
This is Merlin, a child prodigy with magical powers and the ability to foretell the future, attributes that he decides to use on the side of good rather than evil. The earliest of the Arthurian texts to include Merlin was Geoffrey of Monmouth's account in his Historia regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain).
They never said they were all from a different race. Escanor is human and Merlin is human too. Gowther mentioned it casually saying he noticed for the first time that all of them were different species.
In the actual legend Merlin never married, nor did he have any children - though the woman Nimue did indeed cause his downfall by seducing him. Here, Merlin breaks his vows of celibacy before the story of Arthur begins (which we learn in a brief prologue) and is punished for it by the gods.
Furthermore, no proof of Arthur's existence has been uncovered, even at Tintagel. “There is no evidence that anyone called Arthur lived there,” says Russell. “Nor is there any archaeological evidence to support the existence of Arthur as a real person.”
Avalon: In some versions of the legend, it is said that after King Arthur's death, he was taken to the mystical island of Avalon to be healed or to await his eventual return.
Then Arthur is pulling him around and clasping the back of his head, tenderly, as though Merlin's the most precious thing in the world. 'Don't you dare ever lie to me again,' he says, and then kisses him. 'True love,' Merlin says breathlessly, when they break for air.
At first, Guinevere is implied as the love interest of Merlin (who is far younger in the series than in usual tales) and is also shown as having an attraction to Lancelot. However, in this version of the story, Guinevere's true love is Arthur.
