Merlin (Nanatsu no Taizai)

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==Summary==
Merlin is a member of the Seven Deadly Sins, the Boar's Sin of Gluttony. The greatest mage in all of Britannia, she went missing after the Sins were declared outlaws and later reappeared as the mentor of King Arthur.
It is revealed that she originally came from Belialuin, the Capital of the Wizards, and was partially responsible for its destruction by attempting to cheat the Supreme Deity and Demon King. She later met Meliodas and the Goddess Elizabeth, and has seemingly kept in touch with Meliodas throughout the passing millennia.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , far higher with Infinity, possibly up to with certain magic
Name: Merlin
Origin: Nanatsu no Taizai
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown, likely over 3000 years
Classification: Wizard, Boar's Sin of Gluttony, Daughter of Belialuin
Powers and Abilities: 
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Immortality (Type 1), Self-Sustenance (Type 2), Magic, Extrasensory Perception, Transformation, Telekinesis, Flight, Information Analysis (Has shown an ability to analyze a spell,Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 191 she can also read other's strengthNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 286), Fusionism (Combined the Sins' attacksNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 331), Clairvoyance (Can spiesNanatsu no Taizai Extra Chapter: The Vampires of Edinburgh - Part 1 on others with extreme rangeNanatsu no Taizai Extra Chapter 219), Elemental Manipulation (Shows the ability to manipulate many types of elementsNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 81Nanatsu no Taizai Extra Story: A Deadly Sins VacationNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 124 including: Fire Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Wind Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Light Manipulation), Shockwave, Invisibility, Homing Attack, Status Effect Inducement, Statistics Reduction and Resistance Negation via Double Impact (A two-stage attack in which the user unleashes a wave of force on their enemies that combines and multiplies the magical attributes of the four elements, and then, with a snap of their fingers, sets off a second, more powerful blast that contains a weakening spell that reduces the opponent's resistance. The current location of the spell is enchanted with a slew of undetectable and invisible elemental spells that are set to automatically homing at enemies), Blessed (Received the Supreme Deity's blessings), Radiation Manipulation (Can amplify sound), Disease Manipulation, Curse Manipulation and Pain Manipulation (Curse Engage is a ring that can't be removed which links two people together. When the one in control says the password "Lemada" the one wearing the ring experiences pain like they're being stabbed through with spears all over their bodyNanatsu no Taizai Side Story: The Cursed Engagement), Summoning, Teleportation and Spammable Mass BFR (Merlin's teleportation power is at a high level, significantly superior to her apprentice Vivian's teleportation.Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 83 She has the ability to teleport herself, other people,Nanatsu no Taizai The Vampires of Edinburgh: Part 3Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 135 and groupsNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 114 or summon an objectNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 120 to specific locations thousands of miles distant), Preparation, Time Manipulation and Time Stop (Stopped time of a certain area,Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 296Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 299 even time's progression on herself. Can make spells and causing them to last for eternity), Forcefield Creation and Attack Reflection (Perfect Cube returns all force used against it to the attackerNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 80Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 84), Illusion Creation (Create an Illusion of a convincing army of several thousand Holy Knights that could fool even HendricksonNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 63), Shapeshifting, Size Manipulation (Shrank Grayroad until she was small enough to fit into a test tube and can shrink herself and others with her Minimum Tablets), Statistics Amplification (Can amplify the magic power of spells), Power Nullification (Able to completely erase magic.Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 79 Can remove an opponent's power from their body or seal their magicNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 128Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 130), Soul Manipulation (Can transfer her soul into another container in the event of being completely incapacitatedNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 125), Energy Projection (Fires a beam that quickly travels a great distance in a straight line), Portal Creation (Can create a portal from Liones to EdinburghNanatsu no Taizai Extra Chapter: The Vampires of Edinburgh Part 2), possibly all of Vivian's abilities (Merlin was considered a prodigy by the most advanced sorcerers in Britannia, has been widely regarded as the greatest sorcerer in the country, and is known for her near-single minded pursuit of knowledge over her extended lifespan. As such, she quite possibly has the abilities of her former apprentice, Vivian)
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Resistant to the following: Curse Manipulation (Received the Divine Protection from Supreme Deity, which can resistant to many/all types of curses.Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 121Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 153Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 190Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 183Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 184Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 278Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 279Nanatsu no Taizai Character Guide ~Britannia's Heroes Life~ This includes curses with Status Effect Inducement, Age Manipulation, Petrification, Sense Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation and Memory Manipulation, Pain Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Disease Manipulation, Magic Nullification, Power Nullification and Paralysis Inducement, Sleep Manipulation, Illusion Creation, Illusion Negation), Sense Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Statistics Amplification (Received the Divine Protection from Demon King, which could defend against the Brainwashing of Goddess Clan,Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 249 which known as the Breath of Blessing/Cheat Hope is an ability of high level goddesses that can brainwash people,Nanatsu no Taizai Side Story: The Queen of the Altar tapping into their true potential. and make them fanatics who don't care about pain or injuryNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 252Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 258Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 261), Soul Manipulation (Given her divine blessing, Merlin resisted Cusack's ResonantNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 291), Possession and Madness Manipulation (Type 2: Resisted the Dead Spirits PossessionNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 227), Extrasensory Perception (Can cast undetectable spells), Perception Manipulation (Can nullify Grayroad's "Five Lost", which remove function of victims's five senseNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 191), Immunity to Age Manipulation, Time Manipulation and Time Stop (Her personal time is stopped foreverNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 191)
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BFR, Teleportation, Power Nullification, Telepathy, Sound Manipulation, Sealing, Healing, Light Manipulation, Forcefield Creation and Attack Reflection, Information Analysis, Size Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation, Self-Destruction and Biological Manipulation (Through various magic items, she can shrink others,Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 102 change the biological characteristics of the organismNanatsu no Taizai Extra Chapter 16 She also has self-destruction itemsNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 279 and Balor's Magical Eye, which is a magical item that can be used to see through enemies,Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 106 even their plansNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 171 by reading people's mindsNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 169 and their strength. Besides, She is a creator of Incantation Orbs,Four Knight of Apocalypse Chapter 14 which are magical items that activate a spell upon destruction. Each orb contains different spell such as perfect cube,Four Knight of Apocalypse Chapter 48 absolute cancel,Four Knight of Apocalypse Chapter 49 teleportation,Four Knight of Apocalypse Chapter 50 illumination, seal,Nanatsu no Taizai chapter 15 heal,Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 47Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 89 voice projectionNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 67), Resistance to Disease Manipulation (No. 48 - Cure Ange, a bug from hell to eat sickness instead of organs)
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Attack Potency: Multi-Continent level (Knocked out Unsealed Demon Mark Meliodas and extracted his power in the past.Nanatsu no Taizai Volume 33 Extra The mere mention of her true identity caused Fraudrin and Grayroad to completely lose their composure. Blasted a hole through Grayroad with Exterminate Ray and forcefully prevented her escape with a casual Endless Whirl spellNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 191), far higher with Infinity (Can enchant her magic and make it overpower True Form Chandler’s Exterminate Ray at nightNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 290), possibly up to Moon level with certain magic (Reactivated Elizabeth's resurrection curse,Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 337 the creation and destruction of which requires power at least equal to Demon King and Supreme Deity.Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 224 However, the exact circumstances are unknown, as the curse was still tied to Demon King and disappeared when he died) 
Speed: FTL (Reacted to and teleported Full Power Demon King Zeldris' attacks.Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 321 Fought on par with Chaos CathNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 340Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 341) 
Lifting Strength: Unknown physically, likely Class T with Telekinesis
Striking Strength: Unknown physically
Durability: Multi-Continent level (Survived a serious attack from Zeldris,Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 219 who at the time was somewhat inferior to Estarossa). At most Moon level with Perfect Cube (Momentarily survived an attack from Baruja, an indura of favour much older than Derieri and Monspeet, before collapsingPrisoners of the Sky (Anime))
Stamina: Infinite (As the most powerful mage in Britannia, she is able to continuously cast powerful spells without issue. Along with her ability, "Infinity", she is able to make even the most costly spells last for as long as she wishes without any effort on her part. Chandler described her supply of magic as infinite)
Range: Hundreds of Kilometers up to Thousands of Kilometers (Can casually open portals from Liones to Edinburgh, a distance of 186 miles. Continuously teleported Vivian across climate and time zones). Interdimensional with Teleportation (Was capable of sending Hawk into PurgatoryNanatsu no Taizai Chapter 344 Pages 14-15Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 243 Page 12)
Standard Equipment: Her Sacred Treasure, Morning Star Aldan. It is a small sphere that can serve as an emergency container for her soul should her main body be incapacitated, and she uses it in conjunction with many spells. Various Magic Items (as explained below)
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (From birth, she was a prodigy whose talent far surpassed the wisemen of Belialuin. Merlin is widely regarded to be Britannia's greatest mage, easily fooling the Great Holy Knights into believing she had an army and casually defeating Vivian, her former apprentice, who had become Liones' most powerful magician in her absence. While she has a variety of offensive spells at her disposal, she rarely fights in direct combat as she prefers more roundabout methods, rapidly teleporting foes until they are incapacitated by vertigo and attempting to lie to Galand to buy time for the other Sins. In addition to her magical prowess, she is also an excellent researcher who is willing to study demon magic (and has been doing so far longer than even Hendrickson) and developed several magical items to aid her allies in their endeavors. However, after her revival and realization of her own power, she took to the offensive and casually captured the likes of Grayroad with a single spell)
Weaknesses: Merlin is sometimes too playful for her own good. Her magic has an extremely brief but exploitable casting time.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Blessings: Merlin received numerous blessings from both the Supreme Deity and the Demon King, who wanted her on their side due to her innate magic power Infinity. She negotiated with both deities and persuaded both to grant her knowledge and power. The Demon King granted her information on all the secret arts and mysteries of the underworld and protection against the brainwashing of the Goddess Clan. The Supreme Deity granted her divine protection that could nullify dark curses, including the Commandments of the Demon King, although Merlin needs to consciously use her divine protection for it to take effect.
===Abilities===
Infinity: Merlin's innate magic ability that allows her to keep her spells going indefinitely until she chooses to end them. This means that once she activates a spell, such as an ice spell, the ice will remain frozen for eternity. Other examples include making fire burn without end and even permanently stopping time in a localized area, which is how she permanently halted her aging. The ability has potential so great that even the Demon King and Supreme Deity hold it in esteem and greatly desired for Merlin to join their side. It is important to note however that the strength of Merlin's spells is not infinite, and her ice magic for example can be broken by an outside force. It will simply last forever unless countered by someone else.
* Enchant: Infinity: Merlin enchants a specific spell she’s using and drastically magnifies its power.
Merlin's Absolute Cancel.jpg|Explaining Absolute Cancel
ErasingPerfectCube.PNG|Merlin erasing Perfect Cube
AquaDress.png|Aqua Dress
CurseEngage1.png|Curse Engage
CurseEngage2.png|Tattoo Spreads
CurseEngage3.png|Remada
CurseEngage4.png|Torturous Pain
EndlessWhirl1.PNG|Endless Whirl
EndlessWhirl2.PNG|Continued
EndlessWhirl3.PNG|Final Result
ExterminateRay.png|Exterminate Ray
IllusionArmy1.png|Merlin's Illusory Army
IllusionArmy2.png|Cancels Illusion
IllusionArmy3.png|Thousands of Presences
IllusionArmy4.png|Fooled Hendrickson
MerlinFireStorm.PNG|Fire Storm
MerlinIceMagic.PNG|Icicle Castle
MerlinIceMagic2.png|Continued
Location.png|Location
MagicBarrier.png|City-wide Barrier
PerfectCube1.png|Merlin Casts Perfect Cube
PerfectCube2.png|Around Escanor and Meliodas
PerfectCube.PNG|Explanation of Perfect Cube
BlackoutArrow.PNG|Merlin using Power Amplify with Gowther's Blackout Arrow
ShockStinger.png|Shock Stinger
MerlinRepeatedBFR.PNG|Merlin repeatedly teleporting Vivian
RepeatedBFR2.PNG|until she surrenders
MerlinWaterDragons.PNG|Wave Dragon
Absolute Cancel: Merlin erases magic completely. For example, she caused Hendrickson's Hellblaze to vanish from a distance, and she erased Vivian's Perfect Cube by touching the door at its boundary. Extraordinarily powerful magic, such as the spell granting Gowther life as a doll, can resist Absolute Cancel and simply be temporarily suspended rather than erased.
* Magic Cancel: A sub-technique of Absolute Cancel that allows Merlin to cancel magic effects placed on an individual. She used it to dispel the magic keeping Diane small and return her to her giant size.
Aqua Dress: Merlin shapes water into a swimsuit that just about covers her privates by refracting the water.
Automatic Seeking: Merlin can make her spells instantaneously react to and seek out every move and magic invocation her opponents make.
Curse Engage: Merlin creates a contract between two beings to control one of them. On the controlled, she places an enchanted ring that deals immense pain to its bearer if they try to use magic against the other being in the contract, or if that being says the incantation "Remada." Each time the ring activates, the victim is covered more and more by a tattoo. Once they are covered from head to toe, they will die. The victim is unable to remove the ring.
Double Impact: Merlin combines the magic attributes of the four elements (Fire, water, earth and wind) and multiplies them in the first wave to discover which attribute her targets have less resistance against. The second wave is a weakening spell that significantly reduces the target’s resistance.
Exterminate Ray: Merlin fires a powerful energy beam from her hand.
Endless Whirl: Merlin conjures a massive cyclone powerful enough to completely demolish Liones Castle and suck her target towards her. The target and cyclone are shrunken to the extent that they can be kept spinning in one of Merlin's test tubes.
Flight: Merlin can freely levitate and fly.
Fire Storm: Merlin attacks her target with a large blast of fire.
Icicle Castle: Merlin creates large ice pillars that will remain frozen for as long as she wills it when combined with Infinity.
Illusions: Merlin can create extremely convincing illusions. She created several thousand presences, each with the strength of a Holy Knight, and matched them to a visual illusion of a large army outside Liones. The illusion was good enough to completely fool Hendrickson.
Light Magic: Merlin has demonstrated basic light manipulation, forming small animals out of light while talking to others.
Location: Merlin can search through a specific area, up to the size of Liones, for a specific item.
Magic Barrier: Merlin can erect magical barriers to guard against attacks, but the larger range the weaker the barrier. She created a city-wide barrier over Camelot but as a result it was weak enough that an Albion took only three hits to destroy it.
Magic Seal: Merlin seals away the magic of her target.
Perfect Cube: Merlin creates a cube-shaped barrier that prevents anyone from getting in or out, even by teleportation. When attacked, it also hits the attacker with the same amount of power they used to attack it. This spell originates from the Demon Realm.
Plant Magic: Merlin can pluck a strand of her hair and transform it into a small, monstrous flower with a mouth. The flower functions as a sound relay, transmitting the sounds around her to wherever she leaves the flower.
Power Amplify: Merlin amplifies the power of another's magic technique, making it far more powerful.
Power Separation: Merlin separates power and strength from another. She used this ability to remove the bulk of Unsealed Meliodas' power, which was kept with the Druids for safekeeping.
Scrying: Merlin can use various items, such as Aldan or Orlondi's eye, to gaze at distant places.
Sensing: Merlin can sense magic power from hundreds of miles away.
Shock Stinger: Merlin conjures a stinger-shaped lightning construct in front of her enemy. The stinger fires a powerful bolt of lightning directly through their body. This spell was powerful enough to knock out Assault Mode Meliodas when he was at 22% of his normal health.
Telekinesis: Merlin can control objects from a distance. She stopped flying debris from reaching her and rebuilt the entire capital of Liones overnight.
Teleportation: Merlin can appear and disappear at will. She can teleport others along with her, or teleport them by themselves. She has teleported dozens of people at once. Her range is extremely wide, extending hundreds of miles from Liones to Camelot at minimum. The speed with which she can repeatedly cast Teleportation is much greater than the next-greatest mage of Liones, Vivian, and she repeatedly teleported Vivian so quickly that she couldn't keep up at all. She normally casts this spell with a snap of her fingers.
* Apport: A sub-technique of Teleportation that allows Merlin to summon various objects, such as clothes and weapons, to herself and her allies. She was able to teleport clothes directly onto Diane.
Transformation: Merlin can transform her body to suit her tastes. Her true form is that of a child but she keeps her body transformed to match her adult mental age.
Transparency: Merlin can make her spells invisible to the naked eye.
Untraceable: Merlin can make her spells untraceable even to other magic users.
Wave Dragon: Merlin creates several dragon constructs out of a body of water for her teammates to ride on. Several banded together were able to support Diane despite her giant size.
Chrono Coffin: A forbidden art that stops time in a certain area.
===Magic Items===
Merlin is a genius magical inventor and has created about 300 magical items over the course of her long life.
NeedleOfHumanification.png|Needle of Humanification
Cure_Angel_anime.png|Cure Angel
HeatFork.png|Heat Fork
Minimum_Tablets.png|Minimum Tablets
Prototype_Peace_Amulet.png|Peace Amulet
MonsterBlock.png|Monster Block
Merlin401Candy.png|Absolute Defecation Candy
Balor's_Power_Eye.png|Balor's Magical Eye
Goddess_Amber_anime.png|Goddess Amber
Incantation_Orb_Anime.png|Incantation Orb
MagicGlasses1.png|Without Magic Glasses
MagicGlasses2.png|With Magic Glasses
Self-RepairingClothes.png|Self-Repairing Clothes
* No. 9: Needle of Humanification: A syringe that turns a creature into a humanoid.
* No. 48: Cure Angel: A creature from the Demon Realm altered from its original state to be used in healing. It was used to treat King Bartra's stomach ulcer.
* No. 91: Heat Fork: A large wooden fork that can warm things to a pleasant temperature.
* No. 172: Minimum Tablets: Pills that shrink the patient for up to seven hours. Merlin created them from the spores of the Chicken-Matango.
* No. 174: Peace Amulet: A wristband that eliminates negative emotions. Merlin used this to keep Gowther in check.
* No. 300: Monster Block: Bite-sized pieces of various monster meats. Merlin made this to aid Hawk in using his Transpork ability.
* No. 401: Absolute Defecation Candy: Heart-shaped pieces of candy that can induce constant bowel movement for two days straight.
* Balor's Power Eye: A device which allows the user to instantly determine another's power level in terms of physical strength, magic power, and will.
* Goddess Amber: A stone that seals lesser demons. It cannot contain high-level demons, as even Sealed Demon Meliodas broke out of it shortly after being trapped.
* Incantation Orbs: Spheres that contain various spells which activate when the sphere is destroyed. Several kinds of orbs have been seen, including an Absolute Cancel orb, an Eternal Seal orb which creates a powerful barrier around a location, a Hyper Recovery orb that rapidly heals those within its boundary, an orb that projects the user's voice, an orb that illuminates the surrounding area, and an orb that teleports the user. Each kind of orb is marked by a unique symbol to differentiate it from others.
* Magic Glasses: A gift Merlin made for Escanor that allows him to stay in his night form during the day.
* Self-Repairing Clothes: Merlin creates magic clothes for her comrades that repair themselves when damaged.
Note: Not to be confused with any other similarly - named characters or the historical person she is named after.
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