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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8587946" data-attributes="member: 58172">My take on Merlin.Merlin is an archetypal Celtic Bard. Translating into D&D 5e, the Bard class. Taking his advisory role into consideration, he is a Lore Bard. Every spell that he does is on the Bard spell list. He is primarily charismatic, but also smart. A Lore Bard.Some traditions identify Merlin as the son of an "incubus". In a Christian context this came to be understood as a kind of fiend (devil or demon). However in the historical context relating to the later Scottish witches, Merlin is probably the son of a fairy elf, who sometimes mated during a dream or trance when the magic of a witch was emerging, and taught the witch how to master the magical talent. A form of shamanism. Translating into D&D, the mother of Merlin might be something like a Fey Warlock, but probably with the healing abilities that the Scottish witches are known for, or maybe she is a Psion exactly. But Merlin himself is a half-elf Bard.By the way, Scottish elves are ethereal (having a form but immaterial like a "shadow"). They are enchantingly beautiful and supernaturally strong, Charisma and Strength, and seem suitable too for D&D Ancient Paladin, "Green Knight", as well as Fey Warlock.Where Charisma represents self-expression, the Warlock is the magical body as a self-identity.The Warlock is "cheating" because the magic is being infused.How many classes to have is a classic debate between splitters and lumpers.What I do know is, the classes 5e has now do too many wrong things and fail to do right things, thus cannot represent a classic 3e Psion. I need a 5e Psion class.If we now get both Psion and Mystic, win-win.</blockquote>

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