Character sourced from: Fantasy

Merlin

CBUB Wins: 4
CBUB Losses: 1
Win Percentage: 80.00%

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Read more about Merlin at: Wikipedia

Official Site: Rumoured: Geoffrey of Monmouth

Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures. Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt (Merlinus Caledonensis), a North British madman with no connection to King Arthur, with tales of the Romano-British war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus to form the composite figure he called Merlin Ambrosius ( ).

Geoffrey's rendering of the character was immediately popular, especially in Wales; later writers expanded the account to produce a fuller image of the wizard. Merlin's traditional biography casts him as a cambion; born of a mortal woman, sired by an incubus, the non-human wellspring from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities. Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic and intrigue. Later authors have Merlin serve as the king's advisor until he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake.

The name "Merlin" derives ultimately from the Welsh Myrddin, the name of the bard Myrddin Wyllt, one of the chief sources for the later legendary figure. Geoffrey of Monmouth Latinized the name to Merlinus in his works; the medievalist Gaston Paris suggests that Geoffrey chose the form Merlinus rather than the regular Merdinus to avoid a resemblance to the Anglo-Norman word merde, for faeces.

The Celticist A. O. H. Jarman suggests the Welsh name ( ) was derived from the toponym Caerfyrddin, the town now known as Carmarthen. This contrasts with the popular but false folk etymology the town was named for the bard; in reality, the name Carmarthen derives from the town's previous Roman name, Moridunum.

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Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Win Jack O'Lantern (Crime-Master's) 18 to 2

Regular play Record:

Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Win Maleficent 14 to 11
Loss Raditz 8 to 16
Win King Ghidorah 17 to 14
Win Albus Dumbledore 25 to 8