The powerful sorcerer later known as Merlin was born in the Caledonian Forest on Earth in 540 AD (245 BA), the cambion child of a human and an incubus, and was given the name Myrddin. He spent several years as a bard but, plagued by supernatural knowledge and mystical visions, he retreated to the forest to live in isolation, meditate, and wrestle with his developing abilities. During this time he became known to locals as Myrddin the Wild. Little is known of the time he spent in the wilderness, but tales tell of his emergence in the early 600s AD as a formidable practitioner of magical arts who used his powers to aid the Britons throughout the rest of the first millennium.
Merlin is thought to have first crossed from Earth to Eamon around 385 (1170 AD) during a peak of rift formation and by the mid-400s was well known to other sorcerers throughout central Addar. For more than a century he traveled across much of Eamon as an itinerant wizard and prophet but by the mid-500s he had settled into a refurbished castle in the Dark Forest of Evenhold and there dedicated himself to deep and solitary explorations of Eamon's magic.
Though often keeping to himself, Merlin collaborated on several occasions with the Wizard-Kings, rendering vital aid that helped preserve the kingdom through dangerous crises. He also returned for extended visits to his native Britain, as well as to worlds in other planes. Because of this he became an object of fascination, and audiences with him were prized by wizards, nobles, and scholars, many of whom eagerly learned his Brittonic, Welsh, and later English in order to better understand the wizard and the many priceless books and documents he would share from his library.
Following Molinar's departure in the ninth century, Merlin became more detached from the events of the surrounding kingdom and gave fewer audiences, ultimately disappearing from public view around the year 1000. Some now consider him a semi-mythical figure.
