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Does anyone think Harry isn’t the original Merlin?
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: prince lotore on May 07, 2025, 08:34:28 PM ---I always figured that Harry was a direct descendant of merlin. We know that Ebenezer's journals go back to merlin what if the journals are passed though a family but wizards being wizards no one realizes that they were all related. We don't know who taught eb what if it was an estranged parent. Ebenezer had to learn it from someone and acts like it's the only way to protect his family
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Yeah, but if Merlin left any blood descendants at all, by now there would almost certainly be Merlinian blood in half the population.
Genealogy is funny that way, it's amazing how fast one person's descent lines spread out. It's like Michael being descended from royalty. Sure, but so is almost everyone else. I have little doubt that I am descended from some of the Roman Emperors, for ex. So is everyone else, to a first approximation.
Talby16:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on May 20, 2025, 08:26:36 PM ---Yeah, but if Merlin left any blood descendants at all, by now there would almost certainly be Merlinian blood in half the population.
Genealogy is funny that way, it's amazing how fast one person's descent lines spread out. It's like Michael being descended from royalty. Sure, but so is almost everyone else. I have little doubt that I am descended from some of the Roman Emperors, for ex. So is everyone else, to a first approximation.
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Six degrees from Kevin Bacon, but insert Merlin instead.
RobReece:
--- Quote from: cander891 on April 14, 2025, 01:04:32 PM ---What if Merlin is a Mantle? And no not like the title in the White Council.... though in thinking that, maybe Merlin is a Mantle that was forgotten (on purpose or by accident) but though lore/history the White Councile adopted it a title.
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I think The Merlin might include a mantle, and it might have originated with the og Merlin, I don't think future Harry is Merlin
g33k:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on May 20, 2025, 08:26:36 PM ---Yeah, but if Merlin left any blood descendants at all, by now there would almost certainly be Merlinian blood in half the population.
Genealogy is funny that way...
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Not all bloodlines do; some don't reproduce well, they just... dwindle, and end.
I'm pretty sure the Archive bloodline has major mojo associated that ensures there's always one daughter -- but never more than one -- to receive the Archive itself when the prior holder dies.
I'd be unsurprised to learn that there was some weirdness around Merlin's bloodline; but it could equally-well be some working where the OG Merlin made sure that literally everybody in the world was his descendant (maybe his blood had some uber-Starborn world-protection properties... or maybe he was just terribly egocentric that way); or maybe he ensured that he had no descendants, because his bloodline was too dangerous.
I don't think we've seen either canonical in-universe nor WoJ on the matter; only that Eb (and thus Harry) are in the Merlin's Master-to-Apprentice teaching lineage.
SerScot:
--- Quote from: Talby16 on May 18, 2025, 02:28:14 AM ---All that being said, as I am typing this, I realize that this prison was established by Merlin in the beginning days of the White Council. The White Council mapped the ley lines. It is possible that the prisoners are the original source of the ley line. Merlin could have created the prison and the ley line developed as the prisoners were added or he could have created the prison on top of an existing ley line and the prisoners supercharged it with their body heat.
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It is called “the Well” because that is the “wellspring” of the leylines radiating from the Island. I believe that is made explicit by Rashid when he confronts Harry in Turn Coat
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