…and Why the Wizard Didn’t Stop It! – Extra Mythology

Let me ask you all a question do you think the power to see the future is a gift or a curse well for the wizard Merlin it was a gift all the way because the future he saw he could twist to his Advantage with absolutely no adverse

Consequences no curl of the monkey’s paw no ironic twist he could truly make the world he wanted then one day he saw his death which just to be clear was a shameful one but he also saw what he needed to do to avoid it but instead he

Chose that death which begs the question how could the price of his own life have been so great that the most powerful wizard in the world was unwilling to pay it all right this campfire Taylor is brought to you by nebula where you can watch this and

All our other shows without ads like this one for nebula click the link below for more details the origins of Merlin are slippery across various tellings his one constant trait ironically being that he was a Seer and a shape-shifter which you know comes in quite handy when all the other

Facts about you are quite Shifty in and of themselves some Tales say that his magical powers were bestowed upon him by the union of his parents a mortal woman and a demon other stories of his exploits might be a synthesis of other mythical characters and his identity age

And time in which he lived all changed depending on who you ask but you know I’m betting that very nebulousness is just the way Merlin would have liked it and it’s where we’re gonna start today’s Tale in the foggy bloody history of early Britain Merlin’s magic and cunning

Kept him alive and at the right hand of power it was he who masterminded the conception and coronation of King Arthur guided the king through war and political turmoil recruited the Knights of the Round Table and brought King Arthur to the Lady of the Lake who gave

Him the great sword Excalibur of course Merlin’s BFF Arthur did make some mistakes along the way for what one thing he accidentally slept with his sister and got her pregnant Merlin didn’t save him from that but he did let Arthur know that God was very mad about it and as punishment Arthur’s child

Would destroy him and the Knights of Camelot but not to worry for Merlin assured the king that his death would still be an honorable one Merlin’s death on the other hand not so much on top of all that Arthur was getting married to gwenevere the daughter of another king

Even though Merlin foresaw that this match would bring great Misfortune to Camelot but then Merlin quite passive aggressively actually told the king there was probably no point in him trying to convince him of that for if Arthur’s heart wanted Guinevere his head would not be swayed then at the wedding

Feast something odd occurred just as the supper was about to be served a stag burst into the Hall pursued by a hunting dog and a panicked young woman shouting that the dog was hers and that she needed it back tiring at this right quick on his special Misfortune bringing

Day Arthur promptly had her escorted out now if the story ended there the rest of Merlin’s life probably would have been very different heck maybe he would have got bored of magic and got really into stem or something we’ll never know because instead he knelt and whispered

Into the king’s ear bring her back Nimoy was her name and Merlin was in love because for all of his vaunted power his Mythic wisdom and his incredible magic the true secret of Merlin was that at his core he was kinda basic AKA he was an old man infatuated with a

Conventionally attractive young woman and didn’t really know how to handle that except to never leave her alone ever at first Nimoy tolerated his advances as meaningless but when she came to understand just how serious he was she made it clear that she was not interested at all could have been the

Age difference right could have been having a demon for a dead who knows he just wasn’t her type but Merlin neither listened nor let up he wanted her even though he knew it was a bad idea worse than bad actually for he had seen the future and he knew that if he didn’t

Stop bother covering this woman he would die and still Merlin’s infatuation was such that he took a deep breath and said well guess I’m dying then he then went to Arthur and told the king everything he needed to know to govern Britain for the rest of his life because Merlin was

Hitting the road surely Arthur said if you can see your pursuit of this woman will lead to your death then you can just avoid it by leaving her alone plus it kind of seems like that’s something you ought to do anyway right Merlin’s side and thought about his best friend’s

Words for a good long while hmm nope can’t do it thus did the great wizard Merlin bail on Camelot in pursuit of an age inappropriate girl who wanted nothing to do with him wherever nimue went Merlin followed always asking pleading begging if the two of them

Could just you know like do stuff her answer by the way was always no yet he still did not leave her side when she crossed the English Channel to France he was there asking what would make her happy to be rid of you she said said to which Merlin merely laughed and replied

But um like um Nimoy was exhausted and not just a little afraid of what this powerful devil’s son could do to her but if he would not leave her alone and he’d made it pretty clear at this point that he wouldn’t then she would see what she

Could get out of the wise and Wizard and there was one thing about Merlin that truly did interest her the magic of course she wanted the magic if you teach me she told him then well maybe I could see a world where I could start to not

Be a hundred percent repulsed by your constant unwanted attention Merlin said so you’re saying there’s a chance so as they travel together from France back to England he taught her the ways of Magic first just Trifles blowing orbs and what have you but then when he saw how interested she was genuinely

Interested in him of course he got her into the heavier Stuff how to cast spells and how to break them then when she asked even more intrigued if there was such a thing as a spell that could not be broken Merlin cried all there and then showed her the breakable ones nimue

Was overcome with delight she laughed and clapped her hands and it was a vision from Merlin’s most wonderful dreams now he had taught her everything he knew and remembering her promise that she one day might be less revolted by him he brought her to a cave elaborately appointed with candles gold blankets and

Cushions it was there in that special place he hoped to take his heart’s desire by her hand and feel what it was like to be loved maybe just walk a little deeper Nimoy said I’ll be right behind you he did then she used her newly learned unbreakable magic to steal

Him in a cave behind a mountain of impassable Rock she sighed in relief and rode away Merlin spent the rest of his life in that cave it was the shameful death he had foreseen and done nothing to prevent though really it wasn’t like he missed anything in the outside world he had

Seen the future like all of it he knew that he would be remembered as a collection of conflicting Legends and he knew that we would would never really know if he existed at all but here’s one thing we do know the man that could change his shape and the shape of

Nations chose not to learn the lesson taught in so many other Arthurian Legends of old people should repent for their moral failings but not Merlin nah not for anything he’d rather starve to death in a cave then stop creeping and who knows why that was I mean to figure out something as

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