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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 5643338" data-attributes="member: 36349">Merlin Nostradamus- Medieval Scholar extraordinaireSorry for the pun, was wondering how you'd deal with his past since your character would have to have some form of education that by current reckonin would either be extraordinary or remarkable in the effect that he's well known by the story's start, has several enemes some of whom are religious in inclination or rivals who seek to thwart or stop him when his actions interfere with their own schemes... When i read this I pictured someone who is eventually revealed to be able to travel to and from the future, essentially our present so he's a polymath by our standards but extraordinary in the past where he's forced to live. The question is how far do you want to take the magic side of things? Why does he do what he does and as noted above has he any rivals say for example like doctor who he isn't the very best his society has ever trained but he has the social skills and innate experience to make up the difference such that he is the most benevolent of the renegades of his people. Hmm I wonder, in regards to my initial example, say he was part of an experiment that involved travelling into the past. Dismissed and thought not a problem what they don't know is that when he sleeps in the present he wakes up in the past and actually remembers what happens to him back then. He isn't however the only one able to do this but not only do we have enemies in the past reverse engineering future inventions for their own benefit, but also others who are actually trying to make best use of their time to answer mysteries of the past even if it means dealing with vile organisations to fulfil their own purpose. Now he is beginning to earn a reputation but so far noone from his time is aware he can still travel to and from the present but its only a matter of time and then there's the fact the process they're using involves them assuming control of their previous life and they have to take care to avoid altering events of the past as known to the present because this could result in some dramatic changes. And the reason he's doing what he's doing is because it has already happened, his life in the present has gone downhill thanks to the program he had volunteered for who are unaware he's the only one who stands between the world and inevitable cataclysm! Sorry went to far but wondered what else you'd reveal at this stage</blockquote>

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