Merlin

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**~ GODS LIST ~**

***"Utilize the power of Arcane, Fire and Ice magic to devastate your foes. Choose wisely!"***

**Merlin** is one of the playable Gods in SMITE.

## Lore

Many know the legend of King Arthur, and yet the man who set that legend into motion remains shrouded in mystery. His origins, and the source of his power, are secrets known only to him. Even his very nature is questioned. Is he simply a man greatly adept in the magical arts? A demon? Or something in between? Whatever the answer, what is beyond doubt to all who encounter him is that Arthur's right hand, the great wizard Merlin, is a being of immense wisdom, and formidable strength.

In the ages of warring kings, where ruler vied against ruler and only the strongest rose to rule the land, Merlin pledged his skills in service to great sovereigns as both an advisor and a devastating battle mage. A collector of secrets and ancient lore, Merlin is a master of arcane wizardry, able to wield a myriad of elements and harness them to his will. He also devoted his mind to the art of prophesy, one day foreseeing the rise of a ruler destined to stand above all others, and unite the land beneath his banner.

When Uther Pendragon fell in battle against the barbarous hordes of the invading Saxons, Merlin swore an oath of fealty to his successor, Arthur. From that day, the mage never left the wielder of legendary Excalibur's side, a tireless advisor, fellow warrior, and friend. Together they brought about the rise of Camelot, and the unity of a once fractured land. The foul Saxons were driven back across the distant sea, and the people of the kingdom knew peace, justice and prosperity.

To any who think to cross Merlin, beware. Many have tested him, seeking his knowledge, his secrets, or the source of his power for themselves. And few, if any, have lived to tell their tale.

## Trivia

### General

* Merlin was the first god released in Season 6.
* Merlin was the first mage of the Arthurian Pantheon.
* Merlin was the first god with three stances released in the game.
* His three stances are likely an homage to the Mage class from *World of Warcraft*.
* The actor who voiced Merlin, Adin Rudd, also voiced Cthulhu and Doom Bot Hades.
* There is an announcer pack themed after Merlin, You can hear it here:Merlin Announcer pack.

### God Skins

* **Demon’s Bane**

* This skin could have been based on modern mage characters such as John Constantine and Doctor Strange.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Kaiser Johnson, also voiced Nautical Legionnaire Achilles, Horrific Harvester Ah Puch and Neon Rebellion Rama.

* **Master of Light**

* This skin shares its theme with Midnight Dove Awilix, Radiant Heroine Bellona, Archangel Chernobog, Angel of Chaos Cthulhu, Celestial Mayhem Discordia, Celestial Eset, Sacred Grounds Geb, Divine Wind Gilgamesh, Inner Demon Hel, Heaven's Arrow Hou Yi, Striking Archon Ishtar, Divine Axe Izanami, Divine Right Jing Wei, Gazing Archon Medusa, Celestial Deliverer Mercury, Celestial Guard Odin, Holo Halo Pele, Radiant Archon Ra, Sacred Arrow Rama, Celestial Inferno Surtr, Archon Thanatos, Angelic Archon Yemoja and Almighty Archon Zeus.

* **Aang**

* This skin is a cross promotion between Hi-Rez Studios/Titan Forge Games and Nickelodeon to promote the show Avatar.
* The intro animation for this skin is an exact recreation of the Show's opening's last part.
* His death animation is a reference to when Aang seal himself on the ice of the Southern pole for 100 years in the begining of the show.
* There is an announcer pack themed after this skin, You can hear it here:Aang Announcer pack.
* This skin shares its theme with Iroh Bacchus, Azula Pele, Momo Ratatoskr, Toph/Fire Nation Toph Scylla, Korra/Avatar Korra Skadi, Zuko/Blue Spirit Susano and Avatar Roku Yu Huang.

* **Avatar Aang**

* This skin depicts Aang during his fight with Fire Lord Ozai in the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
* An interesting detail of this skin is that Aang has both the scars on his back and on the bottom of his foot from the lightning bolt he received from Azula at the end of Book Two.

* **Wise Old Man**

* This skin is a cross promotion between Hi-Rez Studios/Titan Forge Games and Jagex to promote RuneScape.
* This skin shares its theme with Sandwich Lady Amaterasu, Rune Armor/Black Plate Bellona, King Black Dragon Cerberus, Blessed Dragonhide Neith, Gnome Child Vamana and General Graardor Ymir.

* **Wise Wizard**

* This skin is based on Merlin’s classic appearance in Arthurian legend.
* The actor who voiced this skin, Andrew Love, also voiced Frost Bite Cerberus, Oni Chernobog, Gladiator Guan Yu and Phoenix Ra.
* This skin shares its theme with Aphra Cadabra Aphrodite, Spellbound Chang'e, Mighty Mage Cupid, Witching Hour Freya, Bewitching Bunny Scylla and Charm Caster The Morrigan.

* **SK Gaming**

* Both default Merlin and this skin were voiced by Adin Rudd.
* His "I'm the greatest" line, ▶️*"Jeffrey, I'm swaggin'"*, is based on a line from the ▶️Jeff and Barra Announcer pack.

* **Fun Guy**

* This skin shares its theme with Peace Out Artemis, Super Chill Bacchus and The Magic Dragon Tiamat.

* **Wildcard**

* This skin shares its theme with Queen of Cards Izanami and Heartbreaker Nox.

* **Master Soulbinder**

* This was the first skin to be classified as Unlimited.
* This skin shares its theme with The Impaler Anhur, Blight Guardian/Sinister Sentinel Athena, Razor's Edge Eset, Deathbringer/Lifebringer King Arthur, Sunken Sorcerer Poseidon and Infernal Omen Tsukuyomi.

## Skins

* Default
* Arcane Advisor
* Demon's Bane
* Master of Light
* Aang
* Avatar Aang
* Wise Old Man
* Wise Wizard
* SK Gaming
* Fun Guy
* Cybershadow
* Wildcard
* Master Soulbinder
* Golden
* Legendary
* Diamond

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained as a rare roll from Treasure Chests, or via direct purchase.  This skin was part of the Grim Omens event.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained as a rare roll from Treasure Chests, or via direct purchase.  This skin was part of the Heavenly Light event.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was earned as a final reward from the premium track in the Avatar Battle Pass.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was earned as a final reward from the prestige track in the Avatar Battle Pass.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Runescape Event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by obtaining enough levels in the Odyssey: Underworld event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by purchasing the Season 7 HRX Digital Loot Pack bundle before January 2021.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by purchasing certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by purchasing certain Treasure Chests.

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 Requirements
  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by purchasing certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by unlocking all 5 bundles from the Legend of Camelot event or via. direct purchase after the event ends.

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## Changelog

**SMITE Version 11.1.7887.5 (January 23, 2024)**

* **Elemental Mastery**

* Decreased Cooldown from 32/29/26/23/20 to 30/27.5/25/22.5/20s

**SMITE Version 8.6.6618.4 (June 15, 2021)**

* **Dragonfire**

* Dragonfire will now go on cooldown immediately, instead of waiting until the end of the ability’s effects

* This effectively buffs the cooldown by 3s at all ranks

* Increased Cooldown on Dragonfire from 16/15/14/13/12 to 18/17/16/15/14

* Combined with this nerf, this is a 1s cooldown decrease buff at all ranks

**SMITE Version 8.4.6501.3 (April 20, 2021)**

* **Dragonfire**

* Increased Protections Reduced per stack from .5/1/1.5/2/2.5% per tick to 4% at all ranks
* Decreased max stacks from 6 to 4

* Results in the change of – increased God-only protections reduced from 3/6/9/12/15% to 16% at max stacks

**SMITE Version 8.1.6381.5 (January 26, 2021)**

* **Frostbolt**

* Decreased scaling from 60% to 55%.

* **Dragonfire**

* Decrease time between ticks from 0.5s to 0.25.
* Change from 10/20/30/40/50 (+30% of your Magical Power) to 6/12/18/24/30 (+18% of your Magical Power) per tick.

* Total : 40/180/120/160/200 (+120%) to 48/96/144/192/240 (+144%)

**SMITE Version 7.4.5984.15 (May 5, 2020)**

* **Dragonfire**

* Reduced max stacks of protection reduction from 8 to 6.
* Decreased scaling per tick from 20% to 15%.
* Hits up to 13 times so total scaling decreased from 260% to 195%.

* **Blizzard**

* Decreased scaling per tick from 20% to 15%.
* Hits up to 8 times so total scaling decreased from 160% to 120%.

**SMITE Version 7.3.5945 (March 24, 2020)**

* **Dragonfire**

* Decreased Magical Power Scaling damage per tick from 25% to 20%.

* **Elemental Mastery**

* Decreased Magical Power Scaling damage per hit from 20% to 15%.

**SMITE Version 6.11.5701.7 (October 17, 2019)**

* **General**

* We've released a server side patch to address an issues causing Merlin to be unable to fire abilities.

**SMITE Version 6.8.5557.1 (July 24, 2019)**

* **Eclipse**

* Decreased Magical Power Scaling of the Initial Hit from 60% to 55%.
* Decreased Magical Power Scaling of the tick damage from 10% scaling to 8%.

* **Blizzard**

* Increased the Time to Deploy of this ability from 0.5 to 0.7.
* Fixed an issue where Blizzard would continue damaging targets after they left the area.

* **Elemental Mastery**

* Increased Cooldown from 28/26/24/22/20 to 32/29/26/23/20.

**SMITE Version 6.6.5466 (May 29, 2019)**

* **Radiate**

* Decreased Damage Scaling from 35% to 30% per tick.

* **Frostbolt**

* Decrease Base Damage from 60/100/140/180/220 to 60/95/130/165/200.

* **Dragonfire**

* The Protection Reduction on this ability now only applies to enemy gods, and will not affect minions.

**SMITE Version 6.5.5418 (April 30, 2019)**

* **General**

* Fixed cooldown timers sometimes quickly refreshing after swapping stance while abilities are on cooldown.

* **Blizzard**

* Fixed damage not applying to camp minions if ability deployed before spawn.

**SMITE Version 6.4.5372.6 (April 2, 2019)**

* **General**

* Fixed Merlin auto skill turning off when using Ultimate as he levels up.

* **Eclipse**

* Reduced Initial hit scaling from 70% to 60%.

* **Frostbolt**

* Gem of isolation slow applies after frostbolt does damage and does not get the bonus damage unless the target is slowed previously.
* Reduced bonus damage from 20% to 15%.

* **Blizzard**

* Fixed several issues that were causing this ability to do much more damage than intended.

* **Flicker**

* Increased cooldown from 22/21/20/19/18 to 24/23/22/21/20.

**SMITE Version 6.3.5327 (March 5, 2019)**

* **Frostbolt**

* Fixed a highlighting issue with Merlin Frostbolt where it would highlight enemies outside of explosion radius.

**SMITE Version 6.1.5286.8 (February 11, 2019)**

* Merlin has been added to the game.