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Is the Merlin a Mantle?

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Mira:

--- Quote from: SerScot on June 17, 2019, 09:07:57 PM ---No.  It is not a mantle.

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Yes and no...  Does the one who holds it gain any physical powers?  No..  It isn't like becoming the Winter Knight or Lady...  However the one who holds it gains great political power, which gives him some power over those who do hold a mantle... One could say, being Blackstaff is a holder of a mantle from what we've seen of it in action...  Holy Knights are kind of mixed, in of themselves they do not have special powers, but the Holy Swords do, which conveys a mantle of power of sorts to the wielder of the Sword.

isoycrazy:
Only in the realm of political power and capabilities.  Like being President of the USA and so being the commander in chief of the Armed Forces. 

SerScot:
Identity shouldn’t be considered a “magical mantle”.  If so there is a “Karrin Murphy Mantle”.  People are using “mantle” as a shorthand for “identity”.  They shouldn’t be the same thing.

g33k:

--- Quote from: SerScot on June 18, 2019, 04:22:32 PM --- Identity shouldn’t be considered a “magical mantle”.  If so there is a “Karrin Murphy Mantle”.  People are using “mantle” as a shorthand for “identity”.  They shouldn’t be the same thing.
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I think the OP was actually asking about power, knowledge, constraints, etc; stuff that comes with a Mantle.  They were asking if the title of "Merlin" included a mantle that brings some metaphysics with it?  Or is it just the title/office, with what that brings?

But maybe I'm wrong.  I hope the OP clarifies, if I've misrepresented them!

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