Merlin.

Not much is known for certain about The Merlin.

Myth and legend weave with hearsay and rumor.

What is known is that he is Ageless.

Stories abound not just from ancient histories of Arthurian times, but back through antiquity he can be found on pyramid hieroglyphs, Canaanite cave drawings, and even in trace particulate matter from the Total Void of Absolute Nothingness.

This lack of knowledge is compounded by the fact that Merlin himself remembers nothing from before his Great Disappearance of 1,000 years. The last thing he recalls is the tremendous pain of a mysterious dark trauma after which he deemed his own magic too dangerous for this world. So he cast upon himself a spell of Near-Absolute Amnesia, leaving him with neither memory nor cosmic powers.

Whereas he was once all but omniscient, only rarely now does he catch flashes of the future while gripped with painful blackouts. It is in these fever dreams, however, that he takes inspiration for his next creation. For the eccentric Merlin now mainly spends his days in his tower as a tinkerer and inventor, alongside his AI clockwork owl, Archimedes.

The greatest of all his inventions is the Runiversal Quantum Generator, powered by the famed artifact: Merlin's Crystal Ball. It sits buried deep under Merlin’s Tower, and drives a beam of energy up through the building’s core and out through the Cosmic Plasma Sphere atop, providing both Wireless Electricity and Runenet Access for free to all citizens.

While typically locked away in his tower, he does sometimes make appearances in the community to visit the many wizard entrepreneurs he supports as an active Adventure Capitalist. And is also rumored to be spotted at the occasional festival down in Chronomancer’s Riviera.

Lately with increasing concern over the accelerating growth of the Quantum Shadow, Merlin has convened a Quantum Roundtable including the Council of Thirteen as well as a handful of select Scientist Wizards. They are now discussing the nature of the risk and what might be done about it. For the first time in ages, he begins to wonder if going magic-less was the wisest decision after all.

Only time will tell...

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