Merlin was a bard, seer, prophet, magician and political advisor. He was a magical child with an unnatural birth, the son of a virgin and a demon. He inherited magical abilities from his father and learned the Craft from a mage named Bleise.
Christian myths say that Merlin was baptized.
He was brought as a boy before King Vortigern, the usurper, who sought to sacrifice a fatherless child upon the Salisbury Plain to stop the nightly destruction of the fortress he was trying to build. Merlin saved his own life by revealing the source of the problem, two dragons that fought nocturnal battles in a subterranean pool. He directed digging beneath the construction site which unearthed two dragons, one red and one white, who immediately started fighting. His door will be shut and remain concealed in Ariadne's crannies. As Chief Druid Merlin served first King Ambrosius, later his brother Uther Pendragon, helping them to overthrow Vortigern.