Merlin Ambrosius

> People are just so much fun!
>
> Merlin, speaking to Aido the Dragon

## Biographical information

### Also known as

Sir Merlin the Wizard
The Great Sage
The Father of Magic
The First Sage of Camelot

## General information

### Affiliation(s)

Knights Of The Round Table
Camelot

## Family members

### Children

Second Sage of Camelot

**Merlin Ambrosius**, also know as the **First Sage of Camelot**, was a powerful Weaver known for jumpstarting the study of Metascience and Magic in mid 3,000's BE and the founder of the Secret School, which later became the Weavers Guild. He is possibly most influential character in the history of Arios. Famously the ancestor of King LeLouche Vi Raven.

## Appearance

Being a shapeshifter, he could appear in any form he chose, however he typically took the appearance of a twenty-something male with black hair and eyes, and a slightly tanned skin.

## Personality

Merlin isn't exactly what you would call a sane person. Whether it be due to his heritage or having lived for so long, he lacks any sort of empathy towards living creatures. However, it is not like he hates them. He is in fact fascinated by life itself, to a unnatural degree. However, he like the collective more that the individuals. The only exception to this seems to be people who he expresses fascination towards, such Arthur Pendragon and his lover Gwendolen Ambrosius, who he shows extreme amounts of compassion and even considered them a friend and lover respectively. He could be somewhat obsessive towards these individuals causing most (but not all) his relationships of this kind to eventually break apart.

Regardless, he is happy go lucky person (whether genuine or not) and enjoys life immensely, being a person you would love to talk to or even have a drink with. He is relaxing presence to almost anyone. Not hating anything and almost loving everything. However, he has also shown to be extremely offended when someone calls him either a "demon" or anything akin to that due to his insecurities about his heritage.

He absolutely detests True Magic, and by extension anything related to it, such as their Avatars. He hates with a passion and seeks to destroy any he finds. He detest it so much he developed a Spell solely to remove it from the universe. So much is his hatred is stemmed from the fact that even he cannot fully understand it due to the fact it is, by its nature, unable to be understood. He even refers to it solely as "Ugly Magic" (Magicae Turpis in Camelotian) through out both the Science Of Magic and any notes he ever wrote.

He has a weird compulsion to snap his fingers every time he figures something out or is going to cast a spell, which apparently he has had since he was young.

## Abilities

### Weaving

Merlin was possibly one of the most skilled and powerful Weaver of all of history. His Mana reserves were inexhaustible and his ability to use it was unparalleled by anyone before or after him. Being the father of Weaving as a practice and the one who the first who taught it like a science instead of a art, he also understood weaving at a level that no one else had, with even the incomplete notes of the Science Of Magic being more than the Secret School achieved in three thousand years. While his use of magic was typically uncreative, he was so overwhelming that no one could beat him even if he told them exactly what he was going to do.

### Intelligence

Merlin was possibly "the smartest man alive or dead". He understood reality at a fundamental level that no one had before him and advanced science within Camelot so much that when it burned it was compared to "burning down hundreds of years worth of advancements that occurred in the span of a few years". His intelligence overshadowed every around him, causing most scholars that interacted with him either love or hate him due to his overwhelming presence. He has shown to lack much creativity, making his problem solving extremely linear and predictable (if anyone could understood what he was doing), though extremely effective.

### Other skills

Merlin has shown a great understanding of people in general an make him prone to manipulate them by accident. He has shown decent combat skills, however he is nothing compared to a experienced fighter in hand to hand combat, though rarely does he have to. He is also said to be good at story telling, but instead of inventing one he just recounts one of his memories.