Talk:Merlin of Amber

message: I think the cleanup tag can be removed.  The page has roughly tripled in size and quality from December 2005.  Dslotman
:I removed it (as I'm the one who placed it way back in the hoary depths of time).  Good work! --Syrthiss 19:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

message: Should Ghostwheel be listed under Merlin's powers or should it remain separate?  For that matter, should Merlin's magical artifacts be listed under his powers or go under a new heading? Ladlergo 15:30, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ghostwheel separate or under Powers?

message: Interestingly, Ghostwheel seems to take its name from Gilgal Refaim, which in Hebrew literally means  Ghostwheel.
I wasn't aware of this when I read the books, although that was a long time ago. Perhaps this should be noted?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.65.213.58 (talk) 22:26, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ghostwheel -- Origin of the name

message: Merlin is not listed as having been attuned to the Jewel, under his list of powers.
He describes the process of becoming attuned to it, and later states "I'm even a little leery over how the Logrus will take to me, with this higher order Pattern attunement I'm wearing.", in Knight Of Shadows, Ch. 9.  Later still, Ghostwheel comments upon it, I believe, when saying that he too went to the Crystal Cave to do the same.  Further in the book, he makes several comments about the pattern in the Jewel, and relies on its protection from Amber's Pattern after he removes the Jewel.
Now, I am aware of the (to me, at least) obvious contradiction at the start of Prince Of Chaos, wherein he says he is only aware of how attunement works because of how his father described it, and that the Jewel seems to reject him with "Go no further" ... "You are denied the higher initiation."
How is this seeming inconsistency usually resolved?  Or is it?  I would personally resolve it in favor of the earlier book, since without the power thus obtained, the character would not have lived to the latter book.  Shouldn't there be at least some listing of this under his powers, with perhaps a note about its reliability?  Tacticus (talk) 09:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah. There's also a bit a little later in Prince of Chaos where Ghostwheel remarks on its own attunement to the Jewel; if Merlin had actually been denied attunement, you'd think he would have remarked at that point. For the inconsistency to be real you have to assume at least two different things: one, Merlin temporarily forgot he was attuned, perhaps due to confusion from the compulsion spell on the spikard, and then later forgot that he had forgotten; two, the Jewel did actually refuse him a second attunement. Maybe you are only allowed one? Maybe the Jewel in Coral's eye is a fake or shadow? Dunno. Anyway, that's a lot of maybes; Occam's Razor says it's just a mistake by Zelazny. Jef (talk) 13:21, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Attunement To The Jewel Of Judgement

message: This page lists him as only having two half brothers: Despil and Jurt.  While Mandor is more in the nature of a step-brother, Merlin certainly considers him to be his brother, and introduces him as such at every opportunity. Should we not then list that thing somewhere?
Tacticus (talk) 13:48, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: No listing for Mandor in his brothers