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No one has seen Merlin since he fled Camelot, and his death sentence, over six years ago. With Camelot under siege by Morgana's undead forces and Excalibur, his only hope of defeating them, stolen, Arthur embarks on a hopeless mission to find the lost sword. In a sacred forest he stumbles upon a changed Merlin. The two reconcile and Arthur starts to understand that their bond goes deeper than friendship. All the while Merlin is secretly grappling with the revelations of his own immortality and visions of Arthur's imminent death.
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An AU and alternative S4/5 mostly inspired by the Welsh pre-Merlin Myrddin, a mad soothsayer exiled to the woods, and Quest for Camelot 1998. More references in the notes. There's no need to know any of it!
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When Arthur looked, the end of his nose was decidedly red, so were his eyes. He seemed a little exacerbated. “Merlin, do you have hay fever?” he asked, incredulous.
“Ugh, a bit, why?”
“You’re immortal.”
“But I’m not infallible!” he sniffed, banging down his staff. “Not completely anyway...”
Arthur blinked, his mouth open, head shaking. “That the Gods and magic conspired to make a creature such as you, I don’t think I’ll ever fathom.”Series
- Part 1 of Now and Forever
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26 Jan 2026
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A sequel to Tra Bo Dau.
After finally making it to Camelot and becoming Arthur’s manservant, Merlin is overwhelmed by, but excited for, his new life. While hiding his magic and his relationship with the prince, Merlin discovers Arthur has secrets of his own, a complicated family history, and a shared destiny to bring about the new age of Albion and return magic to the land. Meeting new friends along the way, Merlin does his best to guide Arthur into accepting him and other users of magic, all while upholding his sacred duty as the last dragonlord.
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- Part 2 of The Last Dragonlord
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24 Jan 2026
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The Round Table were notorious for getting the job done. But their latest target turns out to be a bit different from what they were expecting. Not to mention he seems to have a past with their leader.
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24 Jan 2026
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“Merlin, what is in your hair?” Gaius asks - rather judgmentally, Merlin thinks. It’s not as though Gaius can turn into a bird, making his opinion irrelevant. Everyone’s opinions shall now be irrelevant to him unless they can turn into birds, he decides. He puts a hand to his hair and feels a leaf.
(So this is a very canon-inaccurate sort of re-telling, with some big divergences, minus a dragon or prophecy or two)
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19 Jan 2026
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The Ivy Crown by dayari (derryday)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
31 Aug 2011
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[Crossover with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle.] Merlin couldn't have picked a worse time to finally tell Arthur about his magic. In the wake of the battle against the immortal army, a strange visitor disrupts the court, calling himself the Green Knight and proposing a test of the court's integrity. Although Uther turns him away, several of Camelot's northern allies end up mysteriously beheaded over the next few months, and Arthur, Merlin and the knights set out to investigate. They encounter more than they'd bargained for on the way—a reckless young boy, a lady in search of a husband, a centuries-old fairytale that holds more than a grain of truth... and a challenge that ends up being more than just a game.
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19 Jan 2026