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Answer : MERLIN
Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard of Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, finished in 1138, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures. Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt (Merlinus Caledonensis), a North British 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, a prophet with mystical powers.
Merlin was said to be born from an Incubus and a human maiden named Adhan, making him a Cambion (Half-demon, half-human) which is why he has magical powers.
For much of his life, he lived in the wilderness as a “wild man” despite interacting with and assisting at least three different kings: Vortigern, Uther, and Arthur. The enchanted forest of Brocéliande is noted specifically, which later becomes the place of his imprisonment and/or burial.
The author of the first part of the Vulgate cycle made the demonic side of Merlin’s character predominate, but in later branches of the Vulgate cycle, Merlin again became the prophet of the Holy Grail, while his role as Arthur’s counsellor was filled out; it was Merlin, for example, who advised Uther to establish the knightly fellowship of the Round Table and who suggested that Uther’s true heir would be revealed by a test that involved drawing a sword from a stone in which it was set. It also included a story of the wizard’s infatuation with the Lady of the Lake, which eventually brought about his death.
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