He never actually recovers these memories, either, just pieces together what happened. Amnesiac Hero: The first book begins with Merlin washing up on the shores of Wales, with no memory of who he is.In this series, he's the king of evil spirits and basically wants to conquer the universe.

Adaptational Badass: Rhita Gawr is a very obscure character from Arthurian mythology-he was a king (and possibly a giant) who defeated other kings, cut off their beards to humiliate them and made them into a cloak.Bumblewy is quite unhappy though, as that's actually the saddest poem he knows. Actually Pretty Funny: Bumblewy's on-the-spot requiem for Merlin is so over-the-top and sappy that the dragon who was about to eat them decides they're just too funny to devour (helped by the fact that it's still half-asleep).It has no relation to the TV show on BBC. There is talk of a movie adaptation of at least the first book of the series. It eventually gained a Sequel Series, The Great Tree of Avalon, then another, Merlin's Dragon and later Merlin: The Book of Magic. It is not extremely well-known and is a pretty archetypical Standard Fantasy Setting, but each book was received relatively decently and sold enough to make the New York Times Best-Sellers List. As the boy explores the island, he makes new friends and dangerous enemies, all of whom help him grow into a respectable young man worthy of carrying the title of greatest wizard of all time. As luck would have it, a storm overtakes him and he washes up on the shores of Fincayra, a legendary isle said to be the gateway between heaven and earth, an 'in-between' place.

He then leaves the village where he has dwelt his entire known life and sails away on a self-built raft in order to find his true home. When a terrible incident results in the severe wounding of the bully and the loss of the boy's sight, he lives in anguish for several weeks until he slowly begins to develop a magical 'second sight,' the true awakening of his latent magic powers. The boy is rooted in humble beginnings in a remote village implied to be somewhere in Wales (called Gwynedd in those days), where he lives with his well-intended and doting mother, is tormented by the local bully, and yearns for greater things. Barron, which details the adventures of a teenaged Merlin as he explores the magical isle of Fincayra, with a great amount of focus on how the wizard we all know and love today develops from a bratty teenage boy into the wise and all-knowing wizard. The Lost Years of Merlin is a five-book epic authored by T.A.

The lost years of merlin