====== Merlin ex Miscellanea ======

//Male, 97; Unaging Welsh magus, mostly illusionist.//

^ Int ^ Per ^ Str ^ Sta ^ Pre ^ Com ^ Dex ^ Qik ^
| +2  | +2  | -1  | +2  | +0  | +3  | -1  | -2  |

Confidence: 3 / 6

Merlin took his name in order to impress the mundanes he deals with. He is an illusionist, and uses his skills to entertain and fool people for money and other services. He appears as a thin, wiry man in his early forties. He rarely stays in one place for long but generally returns to his original home near the Welsh border.

==== Virtues and Flaws ====

Hermetic Magus, The Gift

**Virtues:** Affinity with Imagonem, Puissant art (Imagonem) 

**Flaws:** Hedge Wizard, Diedne Magic, Deficient form (terram), Deficient form (vim)

Crafty +3, Restless +3

==== Abilities ====

**Languages:** Welsh 5; Latin 4; English 5; Gaelic 3; Irish 2; French 2

**Knowledges:** Wales (Vis sources) 4; England (Vis sources) 4; Hermes Lore 1; Faerie lore 4; Magic lore 5;

**Hermetic:** Magic Theory (imagonem) 2; Concentration (illusions) 2; Finesse (illusions) 4; Parma Magica (Mentem) 3

**Physical:** Athletics 2; Awareness 3; Stealth (at night) 1; Survival (Wales) 3;

**Social:** Charm (peasants) 3; Folk ken (peasants) 4; Guile (the superstitious) 5;

**Combat:** Brawl (knife) 1;

==== Arts ====

^ Creo      | 11   ^ Animal | 8    ^ Ignem    | 7  |
^ Intellego | 9    ^ Aquam  | 5    ^ Imagonem | 15 |
^ Muto      | 10   ^ Auram  | 7    ^ Mentem   | 9  |
^ Perdo     | 7    ^ Corpus | 12   ^ Terram   | 5? |
^ Rego      | 8    ^ Herbam | 6    ^ Vim      | 5? |

=== Spells ===

Any //Imagonem// of level 20 or less.

==== Equipment ====

He has a staff, which is his talisman.