Merlin: Excellent work, travelers from another world! A most impressive feat from your Acrobat!
Pinkie Pie: The real jump would have been cooler.
Rainbow Dash: Hey, don't look at me! I wanted to see it.
Twilight Sparkle: And I want to keep our crystal table in one piece.
DM: The foyer opens before you, and you hear Merlin's voice echoing across the stone.
Merlin: Apologies once again for my absence. My familiar ran off, and it was most important that I catch him.
Merlin: Wily creatures, hares. They seem so unassuming, and yet it belies a truly wicked wit.
Applejack: You got some sort of grudge against Angel there, Spike?
Fluttershy: Don't be silly. Angel is a bunny, not a hare.
Merlin: Fortunately, no matter how wise the beast, you can always catch them with the right bait.
Rainbow Dash: You said this guy's like Starswirl the Bearded, right?
Rainbow Dash: Hey Twi, did Starswirl's books make him sound like a supervillain?
Twilight Sparkle: Dash, he was one of the foremost scholars of magic in Equestria! Only some of his work sounds like that.
Guest Author's Note: "Transfiguration, dimensional calibration, teleportation, time travel, swapping Cutie Marks, the amniomorph spell, personal teacher to the God Queens of Equestria...yeah, I'd probably write like a supervillain sometimes too. Wizards, man, I tell ya."
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So either prankish Einstein, or paranoid Tesla... <G>
Of course, depending upon one's sources, classical Merlin/Myrddin runs the gamut from just a wise, elderly, advisor, to someone with really unknown powers.
"Merlin was the founder of Cloud Castle. A wizard since he was eight, it took him many years to be taken seriously, as his pointy hat and sinister laugh led everyone to believe he was either mad, evil, or both."
I once faced a twist battle where the familiar was the BBEG and the wizard was just a construct made to take the first hits in combat by trigger happy adventurers.
Guest Author's Note: "Transfiguration, dimensional calibration, teleportation, time travel, swapping Cutie Marks, the amniomorph spell, personal teacher to the God Queens of Equestria...yeah, I'd probably write like a supervillain sometimes too. Wizards, man, I tell ya."