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The British Prisoner

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Greywolf:
Could the British prisoner on Demonreach be King Arthur?

We know the prisoners on Demonreach are very powerful. In Skin Game, he says he’s “someone who needs to be here”, indicating both that he has done something monstrous and considers himself monstrous because of it.

King Arthur’s greatest crime was one that’s less well known in Arthurian legends: that he had tons of children, babies, fruitlessly killed. After Merlin told him that a child born on May Day would destroy Arthur (unknown to Arthur at the time, it was his incest-born son, Mordred), Arthur then rounded up all the newborn noble children born around that day, put them on a ship, and had it sunk, killing them all. It would make a lot of sense if it’s the thing Arthur regrets most in his life, especially since it didn’t kill Mordred, who still went on to destroy Arthur and Camelot, and so he killed the children for nothing.

(I will admit that a large part of my theory here has been influenced by Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Tapestry, which uses that part of Arthurian legend to great, excellent effect.)

I’m sure also that in the Dresdenverse, Arthur may not have been the saint the stories make him out to be; who knows why he might deserve to be held on Demonreach? Maybe we’ll find out. 

King Arthur’s death story also has him, mortally wounded, being borne away on a boat in a lake to a mysterious island where he won’t die. Like, to an island where he’ll be kept...in stasis.

We will eventually need a wielder for Excalibur Amoracchius. Maybe he’ll help Thomas to wield it? Maybe Harry will release him for the BAT?

Just throwing the thought out there.

Sir Huron Stone:
..... well damn. That actually makes a lot of sense.

Mira:


    I think he is the original Merlin.  According to Bulfinch's Mythology the Lady of the Lake entrapped
him in a thorn bush and he still sleeps but his voice can still be heard from time to time..  That sort of fits our man, don't ya think?

Grifter:
It could be Arthur, or Merlin, or almost anyone, really.  Hell, it could be Mordred.  We don't have much to go on.

Conspiracy Theorist:
The alternate theory on Merlin was that he was trapped in a rock rather than a thorn bush, by Nimue the lady of the Lake, which fits even better, especially if Mab at one time was Nimue.

Merlin is trapped because if out he would cause Mab to remember love weakening her as Ethnui did in their exchange mentioning Merlin? She definitely lost focus. This would suggest the Prisoner did it to himself to preserve Mab’s power, and put him out of her reach, she didn’t do it to him, he did it for her. The woman is always the villain in mythology due to well, too many bitter and single academics who couldn’t get a date.

Merlin was a time traveller, so him knowing contemporary English isn’t a shock, and he is on the sanity preserving contemplation protocol (alone with Thomas)

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