While Nennius ' Ambrosius eventually reveals himself to be the son of a Roman consul, Geoffrey's Merlin is begotten on a king's daughter by an incubus.

It's possible that he was taught by Salazar  Slytherin himself, given the time period Merlin lived.

The Doctor Who episode Battlefield suggests that Arthurian legend in our world is influenced by actual events in a parallel world, and that the Doctor is himself Merlin.

As an ambidextrous golfer, card player, marksman and pool shark, his skills and reputation were compared to " Merlin himself ".

Whereas Corwin of the first series was a product of the late 1960s and 1970s and was more of a cross between a hardboiled detective in the vein of Raymond Chandler and a Highlander-like immortal with centuries of experience fighting his way through the stories, Merlin ( a product of the late 1980s and early 1990s when computers had become commonplace ) is a youthful hacker / magician finding himself in increasingly complex situations in the vein of modern hacker protagonists.

Merlin discovers the body of his ex-girlfriend Julia, apparently killed by beasts from another shadow, and subsequently finds himself in sorcerous combat with a lady named Jasra, who has a poisonous sting in her bite.

Merlin traces his way back to his first confrontation with Jasra, where he finds himself at a magical fort, the Keep of the Four Worlds, a nexus of magical energies which has recently fallen under the control of a mysterious blue-masked sorcerer calling himself " Mask ", who seems to have a vendetta against Merlin.

Merlin then finds himself having to rescue Luke from Dalt, the two having apparently come to blows.

Merlin tries to use Trump magic to locate Coral-with the help of Mandor, Jasra and even his own creation Ghostwheel, with whom he is back on good terms-but is ambushed by various ghostly constructs of people that have walked the Pattern and Logrus, and even by Corwin's most recent Pattern-ghost ( from his own Pattern, not the Pattern of Amber ), and finds himself drawn into a struggle between the Logrus, the fundamental power of chaos, and the Pattern, the fundamental power of order.

But Galahad's conception happened through pure deceit ; under a cloak of deception that was very similar, in fact, to that which led to the conception of Arthur and of Merlin himself.

As he gives her the secrets of his psychic abilities and how to control them, he seems to lose them himself – which Merlin does not mind.

In the late 1960s Warner Brothers again spoofed Fields's persona with their character Merlin the Magic Mouse, voiced by Larry Storch, and a TV ad for Cocoa Puffs cereal featured Sonny disguising himself as Fields, voiced by Chuck McCann.

Eventually, Luke-who, it turns out, is Brand's son-imprisons Merlin in a blue crystal cave so he can attempt to take control of Ghostwheel for himself.

Merlin begins laughing deliriously, but ends up electrocuting himself on one of the electric wires.

The Arthurian Legends were also shown to be influenced by the Ancients, in particular the Ancient Myrddin / Merlin, ( Known as Moros, in Atlantis where he headed the Council prior to his Ascension ), who appeared to have ascended after returning from Atlantis, but later de-ascended himself to create a weapon that can destroy ascended beings, which he hoped would be used against the Ori.

Merlin, meanwhile, concerns himself with trying to restore the old gods of Britain.

In 1855 he then led a parade of the Ivorites, a friendly society that held to a philosophy of Welsh nationalism, through the streets of Merthyr Tydfil, accompanied by a half-naked man calling himself Myrddin ( the Welsh name for Merlin ) and a goat.

Per Leading Comics # 1, the team's origin came about when the criminal mastermind called the Hand ( later the Iron Hand ), believing himself terminally ill, gave his greatest unused schemes to five other criminals who he saved from the police — Big Caesar, the Dummy, the Needle, Professor Merlin, and the Red Dragon — to commit crimes across the USA as " the Hand's Five Fingers " and prove his genius to the world.

After hypnotizing Stanley, Midvale's lab chimp, into standing up for himself against Norman ( Norm Grabowski )-the bully student in charge of caring for Stanley, Merlin gets into a fight with Norman, and is brought before Judge Holmby again.

The Doctor tells Ace that " Merlin " may well be his future self, or a parallel version of himself from another universe, where magic is the substitute for technology.

The wizard Merlin, unable to free King Arthur and the Knights himself, searches the timeline for replacement Knights.

In Robert de Boron's Merlin Uther Pendragon kills Hengest after an assassination attempt by the Saxon leader and Merlin creates the Round Table for him.

Merlin almost kills Sage.

) Later, when Vortigern's power has faded, the two brothers return from exile with a large army, destroy Vortigern and become friends with Merlin.

In chapter 1 of book 8 of Historia Regum Britanniae, Merlin prophecies to Vortigern ( who fled to Cambria during the Saxon onslaught ) that Hengist will be killed and that Uther Pendragon will be crowned.

This origin of the later legend of Merlin is clearly a local tale that had attracted the names of Vortigern and Ambrosius to usurp the roles of earlier characters.

In the miniseries Merlin ( 1998 ) which uses the legend of Merlin and the dragons, Vortigern is played by Rutger Hauer.

This is the setting of the famous exchange of the warlord Vortigern and the youthful Merlin, as told in the Historia Britonum.

It contains a comic depiction of the birth of the fully grown Merlin to a country girl, and also features figures from Arthurian legend, including Uther Pendragon, Vortigern, and Aurelius Ambrosius.

Meanwhile, Merlin, Joan, and the Clown have made their way to Wales, where King Vortigern, a Saxon ally, is having trouble building a castle.

After the Romans leave, Vortigern comes to power, and invites the Saxons under Hengist and Horsa to fight for him as mercenaries, but they rise against him, and Britain remains in a state of war under Aurelius Ambrosius and his brother Uther Pendragon, assisted by the wizard Merlin.

After the Romans leave, Vortigern comes to power, and invites the Saxons under Hengist and Horsa to fight for him as mercenaries, but they rise against him, and Britain remains in a state of war under Aurelius Ambrosius and his brother Uther Pendragon, assisted by the wizard Merlin.

Many years later, Merlin is summoned to see the tyrant King Vortigern ( Rutger Hauer ).

Nimue recognizes the captive Merlin and persuades King Vortigern to release him.

She is sent to Avalon to recover, and Merlin leaves to defeat Vortigern and his new ally, Mab.

Merlin helps Uther win his war against Vortigern, by informing him of Vortigern's unprecedented winter attack, and leading Uther's forces to confront him on a frozen river.

This is more familiar with the film where Merlin meets Vortigern and is given Excalibur by The Lady of the Lake.

Vortigern finds such a boy ( who is later, in some tellings, to become Merlin ) who is supposed to be the wisest wizard to ever live.

Vortigern plans to use Merlin as the sacrifice.

The book presents the second series of novels not as additions to the series ' continuity but as an example of a roleplaying campaign with Merlin, Luke, Julia, Jurt and Coral as the PCs.

This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

In Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, Aurelianus ( most often referred to as " Aurelius ") figures prominently, along with his brother Uther, in the second book of the series, Merlin.

As with aircraft management, the bigger sensor platforms ( like the E ‑ 3D, JSTARS, ASTOR, Nimrod MRA4, Merlin HM Mk 1 ) have mission-management computers.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

For example, the Spitfire, one of the few fighters in continuous production throughout the war, was in 1939 powered by a Merlin II, while variants produced in 1945 were equipped with the Griffon 61.

He incorporates Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, his magician advisor Merlin, and the story of Arthur's conception, in which Uther, disguised as his enemy Gorlois by Merlin's magic, sleeps with Gorlois's wife Igerna at Tintagel, and she conceives Arthur.

This series of texts was quickly followed by the Post-Vulgate Cycle ( c. 1230 – 40 ), of which the Suite du Merlin is a part, which greatly reduced the importance of Lancelot's affair with Guinevere but continued to sideline Arthur, now in order to focus more on the Grail quest.

Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt ( Merlinus Caledonensis ), a North Brythonic prophet and 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 retells this story in Historia Regum Britanniæ with some embellishments, and gives the fatherless child the name of the prophetic bard, Merlin.

Geoffrey dealt with Merlin again in his third work, Vita Merlini.

Though set long after his time frame for the life of " Merlin Ambrosius ", he tries to assert the characters are the same with references to King Arthur and his death as told in the Historia Regum Britanniae.

The demonic legacy invests Merlin with a preternatural knowledge of the past and present, which is supplemented by God, who gives the boy a prophetic knowledge of the future.

The authors of that work expanded it with the Vulgate Suite du Merlin ( Vulgate Merlin Continuation ), which describes King Arthur's early adventures.

In the Livre d ' Artus, Merlin enters Rome in the form of a huge stag with a white fore-foot.

Many later medieval works also deal with the Merlin legend.

The Italian The Prophecies of Merlin contains long prophecies of Merlin ( mostly concerned with 13th-century Italian politics ), some by his ghost after his death.

The prophecies are interspersed with episodes relating Merlin's deeds and with various Arthurian adventures in which Merlin does not appear at all.