Merlin
Merlin was a legendary wizard of great power, many versions of whom also had prophetic talents, foreseeing the destinies of great heroes and helping it along.
Description
Physical appearance
The classic look for Merlin was of an old man with a very long beard and hair, wearing a wizard's robes and a matching pointy hat. (COMIC: Encore)
Personality
The version of Merlin from Reality Z-25 31-H viewed himself as a slavish instrument of destiny, doing what fate had declared he would, regardless of his own or other people's objections. (COMIC: Encore)
Powers and abilities
Merlin tended to be a very powerful wizard. The version of him from Reality Z-25 31-H had the ability to foresee the future, to physically project himself forwards in time for brief periods, to craft artefacts that made their wearer immortal, and even to transpose souls into other people's bodies permanently. (COMIC: Encore, Defying the Dragon)
Biography
In Reality Z-25 31-H
In Reality Z-25 31-H, the “legendary” Merlin gave the original Blue Knight, Sir Dennis of Inde, the blue magical suit of armour from which the Knight derived their sobriquet, which made the Knight immortal. (COMIC: Defying the Dragon) He also used his magic to briefly project himself forwards in time to the early 21st century, when a now discorporated Blue Knight was freed from under a boulder where he'd been trapped for centuries. Appearing out of nowhere, Merlin used a powerful space to merge the immortal spirit of the original Blue Knight with the body of his last living descendant, Chief Inspector Dennis of Scotland Yard, who happened to be in attendance. Brushing off both Dennises' protests, Merlin explained that he had no choice in the matter anyway, as it was his destiny to do this, just as it was the Dennises' to be the Blue Knight. He then vanished back to his own time. (COMIC: Encore)
With Chickens
In another universe Ambrosius Merlin was visited as a boy by a time travelling Jenny Everywhere, who made several prophetic statements about his future and dropped off some chickens – telling him that years later she would need a chicken from him. (PROSE: Close Encounter of the Bird Kind)
Many years later a gathering at Camelot was disrupted by Jenny Everywhere appearing in the middle of the Round Table. Fortunately, Merlin – by then a grown man and accomplished wizard – had remembered the bizarre visit and had kept the royal chicken coops well stocked. (PROSE: The Interlude of Jenny Everywhere)
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