Merlin the Master Sorcerer

General

• Area: Knights of the Round
• Status: Non-Aggressive
• Mob Alignment: Devout

Equipment

• the Sun, Moon and Stars
• the Silver Crescent
• a pearl-hilted dagger
• visions descending (pop)

Notes

In battle, Merlin shapeshifts back and forth between various shapes. If a person manages to kill Merlin, that person (i.e. the one who gets the killblow) has their mentalstate pumped way up, and they start to hallucinate. In battle, Merlin picks up any items off the ground and dumps them in a room called "The Ethereal Plane", which noone has ever managed to find (but the spirit of Sir Gawain drops an item, guiding light, whose long description claims that it guides the way there). Bede claimed at one point that Merlin is supposed to return items thus confiscated when he dies, and hinted at a connection between this, Merlin's Bag of Tricks, and the Silver Crescent-- but Merlin does not return them, and Bede claims this is an accident (but by the time it was discovered, Bede was no longer an immortal).

The Great Merlin Race

When Knights of the Round first came to the Realms, Merlin was considered one of the most exclusive secrets. For a long time, only Inconnu and Ascendere could get to him. Some people donned tinfoil hats and conjectured that Bede gave Ascendere unfair help, but this is almost certainly unfounded. The two great early Merlin explorers (i.e. the people who figured out how to get to him) were Rathain of Ascendere and Aylssa (of Inconnu, at that time). At length, Dragonslayers also started running, but at that point they were practically an Ascendere satellite, so hardly really counted as a distinct run group. A non order-affiliated group won great fame for finding the way to Merlin shortly thereafter; this group consisted of Mephie, Kestal, Erdos, Majius, and Pheayre.

Log of Bugged Pop

Merlin once popped a single Merlin's Bag of Tricks, but only because of a bug (he killed himself with a magic missile and so his death program didn't trigger; the death prog normally purges the bag).

<1303/1399hp 14/1372ma 708mv E 950> Merlin the Master Sorcerer DYING
Heineken takes a heal potion from an ethereal rift.
Heineken quaffs a heal potion.
Ytteau utters the words, 'quantum spike'.
Ytteau's Quantum Spike wounds Merlin the Master Sorcerer!
Merlin the Master Sorcerer releases his magic missile at Merlin the Master Sorcerer.
Merlin the Master Sorcerer is DEAD!!
Merlin the Master Sorcerer catches his guts in his hands as they pour through his fatal wound!