Hopefully no new murder happens there after Gawain/Gaheris/Agravain’s reincarnation witnesses this scene.
That got me thinking about who the remaining Camelot MC could be. Aside from Gawain and Tristan, the relatively famous knight that comes to mind is Palamedes, though I’m not sure if he’s “famous enough that you don’t need to have too much exposure to Arthurian lore to recognize them right away”…
Is Yvain a possibility? He’s up for grabs since the Yvain in the Second Circle was an imposter. I don’t remember his entry in Merlin’s Guide having any connections to Lancelot.
He was on the list the MC can call dibs on. However, author has said not all the backgrounds are on the list.
Edit: If not Yvain, could it be Mordred? I know Adrian also has claims to him, but when I think of well known Arthurian characters Mordred definitely comes to mind.
Could one of the options for the MC be Agravain? He is certainly more famous than Palamedes and a name even those who are not knowledgeable about Arthurian lore would have heard of. He is also connected to almost all other major characters.
Percival and Mordred would fit two of the Far Future Patreon snippets:
Fighting off the Medieval Stalker - Mordred (who better to wield the sword that’s on par with Excalibur than Arthur’s heir?)
The King’s Bath - Percival (I… I can’t see anyone but Percival or Dagonet here… and it’s way more likely to be Percival. I’m sorry Percy, I like the idea of Gwen being the saboteur more than you, but if this is how the cookie is crumbling…)
BTW, if Percy is NOT Percival, this is my personal top choice for his preincarnation:
If you don’t mind spoilers for the Patreon materials…
There were some Q&As about Agravain last month. Looks like both Adrian and Arthur don’t think too highly of him, and Agravain was the one behind the rumor that Arthur would burn Guinevere. If Lancelot!Adrian’s initial friendliness toward the MC was based on knowing their past incarnation, then the MC seems unlikely to be Agravain. That said, it would be funny if Adrian eventually realized he got the wrong person.
I’m a little curious about the “ancient thermae in Caer Baddon” mentioned by this Camelot MC, though it doesn’t really serve as solid evidence that they took part in the Battle of Mount Badon either…
I had a random thought I had about reincarnation: why do Merlin and Adrian (certain MCs can as well) assume Percy is Percival if you can be a different gender or have a completely opposite personality than your past self?
Edit: The author has just said things on the Tumblr that makes me wonder how much everyone’s Camelot past is going to effect their present self (besides the power ups).
Because his name is Percy, and he acts like Percival. If I named my MC Lance, and had him behave like a stoic, yet adultering knight, that guy may just be Lancelot (ofc he’s not).
Merlin: Nothing about your present self needs to exactly replicate your former Camelot self.
Also Merlin: Cloudcuckoolander MC is definitely Percival. No, wait, then what about Percy? Hmm…
Also Also Merlin: When you get your Camelot memories back, they aren’t going to fundamentally change who you are now.
Adrian:
On the subject of Percy (and his pocket menagerie) having little critters you can communicate with hiding and scurrying around the RV is a pretty good way to keep tabs on everything and everyone, isn’t it? It would be very handy for the saboteur… or, are they keeping an eye out for the saboteur?
Since the author confirmed on Tumblr that Changeling MC players will get to customize their MC’s true appearance, I’m hoping I can make mine look like a Ljósálfar. She’s already an albino, and she got really excited when Merlin told her that her true appearance will be different, so I just think it would be funny if all she got was pointy ears and a glow. She would be SO disappointed.
*Comment # Older man, check. Long gray hair, check. No beard, though. Not on [b]Guinevere Jones[/b].
I had been naming my Amnesiac Fae Lust MC “Jennifer Smith” because I figured she would have been given a very common surname as a fresh identity after being pulled out of the Mojave, but now I clearly have to name her Jennifer Jones. Too bad she steals Adrian’s surname instead. (They’re married.)
Here’s a good song that represents my Lust MC’s romance with Adrian:
The most charitable interpretation is that Merlin hopes the people they knew will still be somewhat recognizable, while acknowledging this might not be the case. Not sure how charitable you want to be with Merlin, though.
If Galahad is a Camelot MC then I could see him breaking the stats bar. Arthur and Merlin both said he would be an OP reincarnation.
This means the other truth has to be that Merlin’s Guide is lying as Galahad’s entry is in the not available for reincarnation section. I don’t think Merlin is intentionally misleading here as they don’t know what happened to him after the First Circle. I’m not sure how confident I am since both truths are about one Camelot MC.
There’s only 1 truth here. Merlin, Vivian and Arthur directly came from Camelot. I think someone among the modern ROs isn’t a reincarnation. My guess is Cassandra. However, the problem I have is then we wouldn’t be able to form the Lesser Circle with the modern ROs and the MC.
Edit: This is wild speculation on the saboteur, but anyone above Vivian on this list can have a spicy scene in the first game. Since the saboteur isn’t a RO, but we won’t know who they are until the end of the first game perhaps this is the author letting us get some action if they were our chosen RO. I think you can exclude Arthur and Vivian as being the saboteur. Not good news for me as a Merlin fan!
With my current level of understanding, the only RO out of the 10 that are currently available that could potentially be Gawain is Adrian… and there is a non-romanceable (as far as we know) character who could also be Gawain (right time, right place) while Adrian has other compelling possibilities. So I am tempted to mark this as the lie.
There’s more than one entity in the MC’s head.
This is demonstrably true. Even if the MC is NOT possessed, there is at least one other voice the MC hears sometimes, and you will see it in the currently available demo.
Merlin isn’t actually Merlin.
So… at first blush, this clearly has to be the lie, r-right? Unless Merlin never actually escaped being sealed away with Vivian, and this Merlin is something else that nobly decided to take up Merlin’s cause of gathering the Circle and stopping the apocalypse. I’ve toyed with the idea that fake Merlin is the reason the Second Circle imploded.
Two truths and one lie (part deux)
One Camelot MC will break the stat bar once you regain access to their powers.
As already mentioned, Galahad is a popularly theorized pick for one of the Camelot MC backgrounds, and would break the stat bar. He’s been referred to as the greatest knight of them all, and that’s not even getting into the fact that it is heavily implied he ascended to Heaven after obtaining the Holy Grail and became an angel. However, I cannot say with certainty that this is a truth since the Camelot backgrounds are still unconfirmed.
One Camelot MC is vastly different from what their original lore indicates… or at least what actions & feats have been assigned to their name.
I believe this is true. There is a lot of intentional mystery surrounding the truth about certain important personages in Camelot right now - Guinevere, Lancelot, Mordred, to name a few.
Merlin’s Guide is lying about who is and isn’t actually available for reincarnation.
As already mentioned, Galahad appears in the “Unavailable for Reincarnation” section of Merlin’s Guide, so if Galahad is one of the Camelot MC backgrounds, and the first statement in this section is true, this would have to be the lie. Since it’s impossible to confirm that at the moment, this one is still up in the air.
One truth two lies
Of the 10 ROs available in the first game, 4 of them came directly from Camelot (no reincarnation) and it might not be who you’re thinking of.
This is potentially true. If we assume Merlin is Merlin, they, Arthur, and Vivian count among the 10 ROs and are their original selves from Camelot, not reincarnated. But… the “it might not be who you’re thinking of” is interesting, because in a Patreon Q&A Cassandra indicates there may be fewer reincarnations among the cast than you might expect. Setting aside the fact that we need 7 Harbingers (which need to be reincarnations, assumedly) to form the Lesser Circle… let’s dig into that - of the modern ROs, who are the most likely to be figures from Camelot going incognito? Cassandra herself is the biggest suspect in my view. She reeks of Avalon, and Avalon should have a vested interest in the success of the Lesser Circle, so it would make sense for an agent from there to be keeping tabs. As for whom exactly she would be… my money is on Seraide, “one of Ninianne’s original high-ranking Damsels of the Lake, she was often sent off on missions to act as both messenger, spy, and agent on behalf of the current ruling Lady of the Lake.” The only other modern RO who stands out as potentially being exactly what it says on the tin is Percy… for obvious reasons. All we know about OKS Percival is that he “chose free will over fate” and that Merlin counts him as someone who could reincarnate. It never mentions anywhere that he died… or how.
There’s actually a secret 11th RO present in the first game.
This could be true or false depending on how “secret RO” is being defined here. It’s already been confirmed that once the saboteur is revealed, a new RO will be introduced to replace them, which will technically be an 11th RO. But can they really be considered a secret? Anyway, it’s completely possible that the 11th RO has already been mentioned in the first game - Eze Ilozumba, Malik Izem, Caleb Degaré and Asher Goldman come to mind. All men… which doesn’t bode well for Adrian, Percy, and Broderick… ha, ha… n-no, it’s fine! After the saboteur is revealed, we’ll still need 8 more Harbingers to form the Greater Circle! There’s plenty of space! (ó﹏ò｡)
Two of the ROs are actually exes, but good luck getting them to admit it at this point.
…I could see Merlin and Vivian being exes. The problem is, I’m way more invested in the first statement in this section being true than this one. This section is definitely the hardest of them all to pin down.
OK, so Sebile is a fae/elf, a Queen, a prophetess (so she has clairvoyance/can see the future), an enchantress (powerful magic user) and a rival of Morgana who managed to pass the blame for a lot of her evil deeds onto Morgana over the years. She’s also (as far as we can tell) not aligned with either the Seelie or Unseelie Court.
Oh, Merlin also speculates that Sebile went by another name earlier in her life, and there’s a separate entry for her:
It sure would be a shame if her clairvoyance revealed to her that Lancelot was being reincarnated.
I’m sure she wouldn’t try and kidnap him (again)
Adrian really, REALLY seems to hate clairvoyance and the concept of destiny/fate.
Could it be because he’s been groomed since he was a child to fulfill a certain destiny, as foreseen by his “mother?”
To go along with this theory, when Sebile took Adrian as a baby, perhaps she also sent an elf changeling of her own to live among humans? Since she’s a clairvoyant, assumedly, she also knew that Changeling MC was going to be a Harbinger. Maybe she wanted them to grow up among humans so they would be more human, since one’s humanity is what makes them eligible to be a Harbinger? This is assuming she wants the apocalypse averted, of course…
…she could probably go either way, going by Merlin’s Guide. And honestly, even if she does want the Harbingers and the Circles to succeed, she probably has her own plans for her own gains in all of this.
But the Amnesiac Changeling MC might be a little different. What if that changeling grew up with Adrian, being raised by Sebile, and the reason they ended up in the desert was because they were trying to help Adrian escape? I think it failed, because Adrian still seems to feel shackled by fate.
Also… since Sebile is a Queen, the Changeling MC can fulfill their dream of being a Fairy Prince(ess) potentially!
Obviously, Sebile could have stolen Adrian even if she didn’t have a changeling to “exchange” for him. Sebile could be Adrian’s “mother” even if the MC is not a Changeling and she has no relation to MC.
Well, that’s all I’ve got regarding Sebile, Adrian, and Changeling MC.
I’ve been waffling on who I think Cassandra is. I definitely think she has a connection to Avalon, but is she a reincarnation of Ninianne? One of the damsels of the lake in disguise? Or could she be Morgana herself?
After rejoining the Patreon and gorging myself on the sweet, sweet lore held within… I’m pretty confident Cassandra is Morgana. Unfortunately, I can’t elaborate.
Another new theory (that builds off the one above)
As a Changeling MC player, I’ve been curious from the start about who the Changeling’s parents could potentially be. Merlin believes the Changeling is an elf (half-human, half-fae) and while they can’t confirm that, I think their judgement is sound.
“Elf” and “Changeling” aren’t species of fae, however, and the Changeling MC gets the chance to select what variety of fae they would like their fae parentage to lean towards…
The implication here, of course, is that Changeling MC must have a fae parent, and a human parent.
But the thing is…
Technically speaking, if two elves had a baby, that baby would also be exactly half-human, and half-fae.
And going by what Merlin says, to qualify as a Harbinger, you only need the bare minimum human blood, so the Changeling could potentially be 3/4 fae, 1/4 human and still be a Harbinger.
However, if you read my theory posted above this one, you can guess where I am going next - if Sebile (half-human, half-fae) is the Changeling’s mom, that means the Changeling’s dad must also be an elf. And that dramatically winnows the list of possible options!
But wait, we can winnow it even more!
Why is it, perchance, that the Changeling MC gets exactly two options for the variety of fae that they are? Hmm… could it possibly be because one option would be inherited from Sebile, and one option inherited from their father?
If you remember from my first theory and the Merlin’s Guide entry about Sebile, she kidnapped Lancelot to a place called The Vale of False Lovers. Well… there’s a Patreon snippet about that place, and it is apparently full of living plants that will try to stop anyone from getting through. Sounds pretty similar to the powers a wilderness-aligned Changeling might have access to.
And if Sebile provides the forest/wilderness heritage…
…maybe Oberon is the Changeling MC’s father, and provides the dark/light heritage?
The only other fae I can find in Merlin’s Guide that might work is Arawn, and he’s a full-blooded fae.
Of course, it’s completely possible that Changeling MC’s dad simply isn’t listed in Merlin’s Guide. Merlin only said that all the potential Camelot reincarnations are listed in there, after all.
Or maybe Changeling MC doesn’t have a dad? I mean… magic, right?
I see what you mean:
Kinda wild if there are 4 different potential versions of Camelot canon.
I can’t remember if it was ever speculated, but what if letters in reincarnation varriables correspond to particular reincarnations (ag, bg, cg, dg) and numbers (1-4) to the variations of the tale??
Let’s say Guinevere is ag: ag1 could be the version where there was no cheating involved, she had good relations with Arthur etc etc., ag4 would be one where she did cheat and make things bad for everybody and 2-3 are in-betweens. There was one ask that makes me think it may be possible.
