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golden age 👑

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By the way! BBC Merlin, in its ongoing quest to achieve ren faire levels of historical accuracy, used Actual Old English as the magic spell language. They got a professor to do a lot of the translations, though they didn't spend much effort on the pronunciation.

There are two ways that this is very funny if you watch the show while knowing OE. One is that usually when they do the "wave your hands to smash your enemies around" type spells they're literally saying very simple stuff like "jump back" and "fall." The other is that whenever they have a long incantation to read, they say vaguely related stuff for a sentence or so and then just transition into reciting Beowulf.

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Are They Bi?

Propaganda below the cut!

In canon he was in love with a girl (Freya) and about him and Arthur in final the creator said "a love story between two men". and well, he just has tension with everyone

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Eventually your favorite fandom will forever be forgotten... except you the Merlin fandom you'll never die out and its kinda concerning.

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Why is Uther always surprised when his enemies use magic? Like, they hate him because they have magic and he wants to kill them for it. So they try to kill him with magic. And every time, he’s like, “They can’t use magic. That’s illegal.”

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Merlin 5x13 Diamond of the Day Part 2

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Oh how I love you modern Merlin as a medieval history professor. I can just imagine his students talking about him. "His lectures are great, he talks about it like he was actually there."

"Do NOT bring up Arthuriana he WILL go on an hour long rant and you WILL miss your last train home."

"He has this weird academic beef with Geoffrey Chaucer?!"

"His office reeks of herbs, lord knows what he puts in his morning tea."

"Dude's been teaching here for like 30 years and he still somehow looks 22."

"I swear to you, I saw his eyes turn gold one time during a lecture."

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Lancelot: I look at you and I wonder about myself. Could I knowingly give up my life for something?

Merlin: You have to have a reason. Something you care about. Something that’s more important than anything.

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Merlin: I didn’t want it to be true.

Gaius: I know. We all wanted him back.

Merlin: Yeah. More than anything.

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100 FEMALE CHARACTERS IN 2021

37. Guinevere Pendragon ☆ Merlin (2008 - 2012)

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I thought we were friends.

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Is all of your merwaine art meant to be romantic or can it just be interpreted as platonic?

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1.04 ⋄ The Poisoned Chalice

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painted my beautiful wife Gwen BBC Merlin :)

[ID: a realistic digital painting of Gwen from BBC Merlin over an olive green background. Gwen is in 3/4 view, shown from the waist up. She has a soft, neutral expression on her face. She is wearing a purple linen dress with a natural linen apron and a natural linen corset embroidered with flowers and animals, and her hair is down.]

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5.11 ⋄ The Drawing of the Dark

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MERLIN 1.06 — A Remedy to Cure All Ills

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BBC MERLIN | 4x12: The Sword in the Stone Part One

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I never like thinking about Merlin’s dragonlord heritage for too long because I start to think about the implications of it.

If the lord part of being a Dragonlord meant nobility, then surely Balinor had an estate/ noble house of some kind.

All I can imagine is Merlin finding that grand home one day, and it being nothing but a hollow ruin. Flying in the wind are burnt and tattered banners of a family crest that Merlin doesn’t know is his because that knowledge is forever lost. Rooms upon rooms that once were occupied by his ancestors, ancestors who he will never be able to name. The kitchen frozen in time with dusty and moulded plates sitting on the table, a plate that maybe his aunt or an uncle, maybe a grandparent or a cousin was eating from before Uther’s men came after them. Little trinkets, jewellery, heirlooms, beloved toys, precious keepsakes scattered everywhere, and he wouldn’t know that by default they were his.

He would walk those abandoned halls, seeing how clearly loved that home was, how full of life and people and family it had had before the purge had broken out: only to wish that he could have experienced that in his childhood.

He would just see that grand house as nothing more than another of Uther’s victims, completely unaware of his connection to the place.

EDIT: OH GOD WHAT IF MERLIN HAD A SIGIL???