Post by Emerys Merridian Finn/Merlin on Feb 18, 2014 19:02:57 GMT -5
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Image claim: Alexander GardnerName: Emerys Merrdian Finn Also known as Merlin The White Mage of Camelot
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown not even he knows it any more looks 22
Occupation: A Magi of the court of Camelot. In Storybrooke a strange magical shop of magical items has appeared he owns this but where is he ?
Family:
Finnigan: His dad dead
Lilliana: His mother dead
Morelia: His sister dead
Mordred: His great great great great grandson Alive
Julia: His Twin daughter Alive!
Nathan: His Twin Son Alive [Both Julia and Nathan are twins]
Strengths: Advanced Magic, Experience, Wisdom, An eye for Talent, not easy to fool.
Weaknesses: Careless [he leaves things lying around], can put his faith in the wrong people, sucker for a beautiful women and a handsome man. His fate is tied with that of Camelot and possibly Storybrooke, dark magic {in that it does terrible things to him if he tries to use it]
Quote: "Time goes on and I look the same, I don't remember how old I am" "This is what I call white magic, breath it in, feel it in the air around you." "Don't test me Uther! you are not the man your father was and you can not cast me out!" "Arthur you area better man than you father ever was, except my consul do the right thing." "Alas I feel a light drawing ever closer, is this the End! I have So much s....o" "Nathan, Julia I am sorry,"
Personality: Merlin is a mysterious man a very mysterious man, he doesn't share in his past or his life before Camelot ,his motives and what he wants also remain shrouded in mystery, there is not on man or women alive who knows what Merlin is up to or why he continues to hold sway over the kings of Camelot. Merlin is calculating, he likes to plan his moves carefully before proceeding with them, he hates to Rush into things and would rather make sure every details was correct before going on and continuing with what he wanted to do. Merlin is incredibly wise and experienced, for the age he looks, but this has been gathered through study and careful practice through hard work and determination as Merlin is a very determined man who will stop at nothing to see his goals and ambitions completed and seen through until the very end.
Ambitious yes Merlin is very ambitious he has the drive and will, the experience to try and succeed in his control of Camelot, to have the ear and trust of every Monarch to have sat on its Ruby throne, he likes to have control and has contempt for those who try and usurp his power. Merlin has a controlled temper but is quick to anger, he hides it under the service and just because he looks calm and collected does not mean he is plotting your downfall. This man can be violent if need be but will always be the first to help a pretty face. He does not always help for nothing, and love of control and his ambitions come from his drive to stay alive to accomplish a golden age.
The man of many faces he can be friendly nasty or reserved, he is not easy to fool though he trusts easily and puts his faith into the wrong people and Dark magic can turn into a crutch for him, corrupt him send him dark, it to him has a sweet air a drug almost. He loves to teach, History and magic, he has had many students and fondly names them all. In Some way you can call him somewhat of a player throughout his life he has slept with many a man and women, he has a thing for beauty and is proud of his children. This man of Many faces likes children and is at times a clam presence for those in need, though he can be grumpy and wont always help. He has always hated Fate and Prophecy and quite often tries to make his own destiny.
History:
"I started out life so simply, everything was perfect, but then the war came,"
Merlin was the only son of a wealthy landowner in first days of the fledgling Kingdom of Camelot, when the Kingdom was just struggling to get by Two brother's, princes were fighting a long and hard fought war for the Vacant Ruby Throne. One from the Pendragon line and the other from the Medoza line. Merlin was only 8 years of age when his father left his older sister in charge of the land with his mother to fight in the war, it was in this long war that he would die never to return. Like many who died on the battlefields of what would be known as The Near Destruction. Camelot was brought near enough to it's very Knees with years upon years of warfare, pecking away at it's resources it's money and it's people. Sadly it went on for years more , Merlin would be only 15 when things began to change, not only for him but for the war and the the land his mother owned which was suffering.
"And thus my destiny was written in Stone that very night as they appeared among the starlight, my eyes burned with their majesty."
At Only 15 Merlin would be called up to the war front unknown that with him leaving he was leaving his sister and mother to a father worse fate than his own, Bandits, but that tale does not come yet. The war effort was broken the kingdom of Camelot but the war kept on going and Merlin would fight on it. One night the group of soldiers he was with made camp, the night was bright with stars and one such star was so bright the soldiers took it as good fortune, sadly they were wrong. They were set upon in the Night by the enemy and one by one they would die, Merlin was stabbed by a golden Blade the son of the Prince of the Medoza line, the golden tip snapped inside him and he was left for dead. It was in that very hour two figures appeared before him telling him of a great Prophecy, and his part to play in the coming of a The Great Golden Age for Camelot, and in the tales to come. They would restore him to life but on the point of near death, the magic they told him that was always inside him, that well of potential, the White magic would keep him safe and whole again, he would always be on the point of near death he would age only to 22. They told him it was his task To build this age and to take a part in the tales to come. They left with these parting words
"Beware Merlin you fate is tied to the destiny of Camelot, should it fall you death is all but assured."
"I then entered what I called the endless sleep, my body recuperating from it's near death experience, re energising, many years I would lose"
When he awoke from this Endless sleep the clock had turned on, his family was all but dust and the war was over, the Pendragon line had won out and the last Mendoza fled the kingdom. Merlin listened to the whispers of the world and travelled gaining a name for himself as The Lonely Traveller, he would come upon the final fate of his family butchered and destroyed by Bandits his family home in ruins. Merlin took a year to gather his thoughts and in that year he began to study magic that these people had promised he had, he soon found it a White magic that he practiced and practiced soon he built himself a white staff and set out for Camelot's capital. There he sat keeping a watchful eye on Camelot's troubles, an soon some came in the form of a plague which Merlin would work hard to combat and he successfully did. He worked harder heard after year helping and doing what he could before the King recognized his help. Which was good because on the day Merlin would visit the Ruby Throne not even Merlin had known this there was near successful Assassination attempt on the prince, Merlin was able to catch the assassin and the King was forever in his debt, the High Court Advisor had died in the process and he was offered the position. From there he would watch, and plan and build Camelot, he would also sink his claws into the kings son torturing him and teaching him.
"Years and years but never a Golden age, no King was that great but each one I served dutifully, Each one grateful each one I cared for from birth"
Merlin felt that if he had control of the king, if the king believed in him trusted his wise council and his magic he would control the destiny of Camelot, a reason he was so eager to keep influence on the kings to be the princes and heirs, be their friend and ally that shoulder to cry on when times got tough. He Endlessly worked towards his goal and ambition in a drive to keep himself alive and Camelot afloat. Though Camelot would be attacked many times and it kingdom nearly destroyed by invasion, once the king had to flee though Merlin took Ruby jewel on the throne with them, in a bid to keep the kingdom alive in spirit, but due to this invasion he weakened and nearly slipped back into the Endless sleep. The King and Merlin though overcame the invasion and returned the Ruby to The Ruby throne.
"I took on pupils and taught them my magic, I would bring about the Age of Peace, The Age of Poetry and I would see The Silver Age, I also met many beautiful man and women"
Time span on and on New Kings came and went and Merlin began to take pupils teaching them the white magic, and as the turning of a New age and new king began he help King Guntard sign a peace treaty with the neighbouring kingdoms signifying the Age of peace in Camelot, he also slept with a few women one of them being from a line of people who would one day produce Mordred, also known as Arthur's Bane. Time Span on and we come to The Age of Poetry in the last years of King Guntard's Reign. Merlin would watch as the people turned to song and romance to jolly tunes and bawdy jokes. Then came the greatest age of the Camelot the one Merlin did not bring about.
"King Mathu Pendragon, the greatest king of Camelot to have ever lived, the best man I have ever had the pleasure to duel and teach."
All Merlin's hard work and effort would pay off, his years of tutoring the heirs to the throne produced one with the foresight and talent to pull off the greatest of feats, bringing about the Silver age in which magic was celebrated, wars were hard fought and won with strength of arm and cunning. The People rejoiced with song and dance and plenty of food, the king was man of the people and Merlin could be no more prouder, he watched as the boy he has sat with and used magic to mend his wounds grew into the leader Camelot would need, but sadly when his son was only 11 years of age he was killed by a dark wizard. The Silver age was over, the dream shattered, darkness came to Camelot, the 11 year old Uther Pendragon and bitter and untrusting King came to the throne the Dark age of Camelot had begun.
"The Dark age was a time of great strife and suspicion were a tyrannical king sat on The Ruby Throne, a cloud was above Camelot as darkness stirred and the king felt himself as equal to his father, PAH."
Merlin watched as magic users were to be prosecuted and even those in Uther's own court were to be treated with heavily suspicion, the boy king was a brat, the man well he was even worse, a tyrant who merlin had no control over, while many a king had been their own man they had still take Merlin's council this one took none but his own. Merlin would resort to his own tactics as dark magicians took revenge on Uther attacking where they could, Merlin stood by at let it happen watching as UTher destroyed his own kingdom. Merlin played the long game, and as he did he trained a few more pupils a mistake that he should never of made. The Lady Morgraine, The Lady Morgana La fey and Sir Bartholomew were his new pupils treacherous people looking for power. He would also find himself with two twins though that came later somewhat after the birth of Arthur. Merlin had Arthur's mother killed and smuggled Arthur away letting Uther believe he had no son and heir, he would be killed a few years after by a dark sorceress who to keep up appearances Merlin would exile.
"Now came the regency as I awaited news from Lady Morgana La Fey of Arthur's upbringing, I took control of Camelot as Regent and the kingdom was mine,"
Merlin became regent in the absence of an Heir and started a search fro someone who could be part of the original royal line or one of the cast of groups, Merlin knew as long as there was a king or Queen in Camelot Camelot would flourish, he did not want to risk Arthur on the throne because of who his father was. He did however wait for news of Arthur from his student Lady Morgana La Fey. When Arthur came of age Merlin visited him the guise of an old man and tested him, he was impressed , he then visited a lake and met the Lady of this fair lake who would give him an Enchanted Sword called Excalibur, Merlin would place it in the stone in the courtyard. He set a challenge for the people of the realm and invited Arthur he said that Uther's son was alive that he had escaped his death, and that whoever so pulls this sword from the stone is the his true heir. No one could pull it out but when Arthur did he became the king of Camelot.
"So We catch up to near the end of this tale, Arthur is now king and what a great king he is the Round Table, Guinevere so many different tales and more to come, My twins and Mordred."
Merlin would watch, guide and be a part of the events that would unfold around Arthur, as he struggled as a new king creating the Round table and his trusty Knights Marrying Guinevere, and his battles with Mordred who Merlin late found out was his blood. His twins were now young teenagers and learning magic fast. Then came the ultimate betrayals. Lady Morgraine betrayed Merlin taking to a dark form of White magic and striking at camelot again and gain seeking to uproot and kill Arthur Pendragon it turned out she was the last of the Medoza line. Arthur and Merlin would stop her but Merlin knew he could take no more he felt his heart break that his own student would turn against him, so he called a truce and met her in the crystal caves.
"A Mistake I should not have made, an Error in Judgement, I see now my life flash before my eye's a curse come's and Camelot's demise! There is no Golden age, as the poison seeps through my veins, my three pupils powerful and tall, how poetic the mast be vanquished this way. I am sorry my dear children carry on my work bring about this golden age."
Destiny it seemed had grabbed hold of Merlin earlier than he though at the crystal caves he would make his last stand, his other two apprentices turned on him the Lady Morgana La Fey was the worst betrayal for it was with her he had his twins with, they did not beat him in a straight magic duel no they poisoned his system and entombed him in the cave. He should of died there and then but with the last crackle of his white magic as he felt that golden tip surge toward's his heart the white staff crashed against the floor exploding into a million pieces.
"A Bright light blinded a white energy seeped from the staff, White magic encased my body and I started falling into the darkness, that never-ending Endless sleep where I have remained ever since until need once more."
The Staff pieces vanished and it's white magic triggered the Endless sleep, Merlin would be near the point of death until Camelot or maybe even another place needed him once more, he slept through the curse but was transported to Storybrooke underneath the town clock tower hidden, the only object that can awaken him is his White staff.
Recently in Storybrooke a new shop has Emerged selling all sorts of magical item's and in in a room in the Mayor's office a strange oak white staff had appeared a gift perhaps?
Likes: White magic, Control and order, Camelot, King Arthur, The Dream of a Golden Age, His Children, Storybrooke, Children
Dislikes: Mordred, Prophecy, The fact that if Camelot falls he dies, Fate, Dark Magic, Fools, Things not going according to plan, The Lady Morgraine, The Two pupils who betrayed him
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