

Merlin appeared before her then, telling her she should think it through and described that to become " king" is to no longer be " human". As the other participants prepared a jousting match to decide the kingship, Artoria neared the sword and prepared to pull it without hesitation. Merlin prepared Caliburn for the selection of the next king, but none could pull it out of the stone. According to anecdotes, Merlin taught many things to the young Arthur and monitored the child's growth, taking on a role akin to that of a foster-father. Merlin visited at some point during Artoria's upbringing and swore Sir Kay to secrecy about the matter of her gender.

Confident that having her separated from the castle until the prophecy was fulfilled was proof that she would become king, when Artoria was five years old Merlin entrusted her to the king's vassal, Sir Ector, and had her raised as the child of a knight. Although the child was a girl who could not officially become the successor, Merlin was delighted all the same, believing that her sex never mattered. Under an arrangement from Uther, Merlin helped produce an heir bearing the " essence of a dragon", so Artoria was born as a human infused with a dragon's magical energy.

Merlin told Uther a prophecy about his child, who would become his appointed successor during their war-torn times. Thus, after he rised up as a magus, Merlin helped arrange the marriage between King Arthur’s father - Uther Pendragon - and princess Igraine, and watched over King Arthur since before her birth. Uther loved Igraine, the wife of Duke Cornwall, so he secured Merlin's assistance in winning her love at the price of leaving his child in Merlin's care. He also left behind many other prophecies, and amongst them were those concerning wars and even the king's death. Merlin's words, which were transmitted in posterity as prophecies, indicated the red dragon as Britain and the white dragon as the Saxons WP, and under a great king would Britain finally gather their forces and surely reign over both Gaul WP and Rome. Among the many prophecies that caused Merlin's name to become widely known, there was one in which, after correctly guessing about the existence of two dragons, one red WP and one white WP, sleeping beneath Mount Emrys WP, he spoke of how, at the time of having that vision, those red and white dragons would fight against each other upon waking up. It has been said that Merlin had performed many prophecies at a young age. It is said that his mother was a princess of Wales, but it is also said that his father was supposedly a supernatural incubus who lived in the gap between the Earth and the moon. With illusions as his forte, he can transform into various shapes-there was a case where he had changed into the shape of a beast whose insides are not human-and his true form is not certain. Still, though he is a wise man, he is fundamentally inhuman, because he was born of mixed blood from the union of an incubus and a human. A prophet and advisor who made his entry into Arthurian Legends WP as the court magus, he would at times guide, at times torment, and at times help King Arthur as a king so that she could overcome many enemies and hardships. The Magus of Flowers (花の魔術師, Hana no Majutsu-shi ?). 2.3.6 Nahui Mictlan: Golden Sea of Trees Travelogue.2.3.5 Fae Round Table Domain: Avalon le Fae.2.3.4 Christmas Event: Merry Christmas from the Underworld.2.3.1 Fifth Singularity: E Pluribus Unum.
