Aug. 30, 2024 (Current Version)
Merlin
マーリン、멀린
Simplified Name: 瑪琳
Gender: Female
Height: 177cm
Weight: 57kg
Birthday: December 3
Blood Type: AB
Gender: Female
Height: 177cm
Weight: 57kg
Birthday: December 3
Blood Type: AB
Height: 177cm / Weight: 57kg / Race: Unknown / Birthday: December 3 / Age: Unknown / Blood Type: AB
Power Level: 4710 (Magic 3540 / Strength 70 / Spirit 1100)
A member of the "Seven Deadly Sins," known as "Merlin of Gluttony." Her symbol is a pig, and her tattoo is located on the left side of her neck. She has two beauty marks under her right eye.
A bewitching beauty who wears highly revealing clothing with an open chest. Her true form is that of a child, but she uses magic to appear as an adult. She always wears a faint smile, but Meliodas describes her as suspicious. "Merlin" is not her real name, and according to her, it cannot be pronounced by humans. Known as "Britannia's Greatest Sorceress," she uses her magic to stop her body's time in pursuit of various research. She is a formidable figure, capable of combining and simultaneously activating multiple spells, overwhelming even the highest-ranking demons, and is considered "unfair" by both allies and enemies. She has developed various magical items, including the "Cursed Spheres" and "Goddess Amber" used by the Holy Knights of Liones. She is also a disciple of the demon Gowther, who once remarked on her terrifying potential for growth.
During an incident ten years ago, a girl who protected Meliodas was severely injured, causing him to nearly lose control. To prevent the destruction of Liones, Merlin took his power. Afterward, she took refuge in Camelot, serving as an advisor to King Arthur. Arthur trusts her as both a friend and a mentor, and she considers Arthur to be her cherished and irreplaceable existence.
During the battle in the royal capital, she visits Liones with Arthur and helps Meliodas and others who were about to be teleported to an unknown land by Vivian's teleportation. After rescuing the King of Liones, she returns to Camelot with Arthur to cure the king's illness. After curing the king, she returns to Liones and joins Meliodas and the others as a member of the "Seven Deadly Sins" due to the disappearance of the "Coffin of Eternal Darkness" necessary for the revival of the demon clan and signs of a new Holy War. In Camelot, she turns to stone after lying during a battle with Galand, but she breaks the petrification with her own power during the battle in Liones and overwhelms Grayroad. In the battle against the demon clan, she heads to Camelot with Ludociel, showing such power that Ludociel declares he never wants her as an enemy, and traps Cusack, but fails due to remembering Mael, and is cornered as the remaining Commandments gather. She attempts to stop the revival of the Demon King using forbidden magic but fails, and the Demon King revives in Meliodas's body, though they manage to stop him with the help of their comrades.
Her true identity is one of the children who were experimental subjects in "Belialuin," a city of sages, created as weapons to oppose high-ranking demons and goddesses. She was a genius born with extremely strong and unique magic. However, she grew tired of the daily studies and experiments imposed by the city's and her father's policies and fled, developing feelings for Meliodas, who saved her from pursuers. However, her love was thwarted by Elizabeth's presence, and she sought to fill the void of love she couldn't receive from her father or Meliodas by honing her magic and acquiring knowledge. She learned of the existence of "Chaos," which creates infinite unknowns, and began acting to fulfill her hunger through its revival. She negotiated with the Demon King and the Supreme Deity, receiving "all knowledge of the demon world's secret arts and protection against the goddess's brainwashing techniques" from the Demon King and "protection that nullifies any dark curses and Commandments" from the Supreme Deity, but rejected both, leading to the destruction of Belialuin and earning her the titles "Daughter of Belialuin" and "Daughter Blessed by the Demon King and Supreme Deity." She formed the "Seven Deadly Sins" to use their power for her purposes, delayed her time-stopping magic to intentionally revive the Demon King, and revived Elizabeth's curse to make it seem like the Demon King's doing, among other schemes. After the Demon King's defeat, she revealed her purpose to the Sins, revived Arthur as the new King of Chaos using the immense magic power brought by their combined techniques, and initially distanced herself from the Sins to avoid involving them in further problems. However, she expressed gratitude when they came to help her and clashed with Cath, who targeted Arthur. After the resolution, she returned to Camelot with Arthur.
Despite feeling a constant hunger for the love she desired from her father and Meliodas, she accepted the feelings of Escanor, who had affection for her, during his final moments, kissing him while being burned by his heat. As a result, she now has a distinct burn mark resembling a beard around her mouth.
Crime: "Daughter of Gluttony, hungry for love and greedy for knowledge."
Sacred Treasure: "Morning Star Aldan"
A spherical sacred treasure engraved with thousands of runes.
One of its abilities allows her to transfer her consciousness inside it, enabling communication with her surroundings even if her body becomes incapacitated. It has various other uses, such as projecting illusions.
Magic Power: "Infinity"
Magic that allows any spell she casts to last indefinitely. Even spells that require enormous magic power continue to activate once cast, unless the caster chooses to cancel them.
"Teleportation"
Magic that allows her to instantly transport herself or others to a chosen location.
"Absolute Cancel"
Magic that forcibly cancels magical effects.
"Power Amplify"
Support magic that enhances the magic or magical attacks of others.
"Perfect Cube"
A magic barrier that repels any attack and denies entry to anyone not approved by the caster. Originates from the demon world. It can be used by others as well. Even Galand, who specializes in physical strength, finds it difficult to destroy.
"Magic Cancel"
Magic that removes magic cast on objects.
"Apport"
Magic that transfers objects.
"Magic Defense Wall"
Magic that creates a wall using magic power.
"Location"
Magic that allows her to locate objects or people within a certain range using magic power.
"Exterminate Ray"
Magic that annihilates anything in the path of the emitted light.
"Endless Whirl"
Magic that creates a large whirlpool, gathering those within range to its center.
"Magic Seal"
Magic that seals the target's ability to use magic. It not only prevents magic-based attacks but also nullifies existing magic.
"Double Impact"
An attack using consecutive shockwaves. The first wave identifies the enemy's weak attribute, and the second wave applies a compound magic that weakens and reduces durability with each hit. To an observer, it appears as an attack magic, and the target is unaware of being affected by magic.
"Chrono Coffin"
A forbidden spell that completely stops the target's time, requiring over 10 minutes to activate.
"Curse Discovery"
Magic that extracts and visualizes curses from the opponent's body. However, it only extracts and does not remove them.
"Power Limit Break"
Magic that draws out and allows the use of magic power beyond the body's limits. It has a recoil effect, leaving the affected unable to move after the effect ends.
Merlin is a central character in The Seven Deadly Sins, known as the “Boar’s Sin of Gluttony,” the greatest mage in Britannia, and a key architect behind many major events including the revival of Chaos and the resurrection of Arthur Pendragon.
## Basic Profile
**Name:** Merlin
**Gender:** Female
**Race:** Unknown (referred to as “Daughter of Belialuin”)
**Age:** Over 3,000 years old (apparent age around 30; true body is that of a girl around 10)
**Height:** 177 cm
**Weight:** 57 kg
**Blood Type:** AB
**Birthday:** December 3
**Hometown / Origin:** Belialuin, the City of Sages
**Combat Class (Power Level):** 4,710 (Magic: 3,540 / Strength: 70 / Spirit: 1,100)
**Affiliation:** The Seven Deadly Sins
**Sin Title:** Boar’s Sin of Gluttony
**Sin Insignia:** Boar, located on the left side of her neck
**Notable Physical Features:**
Black semi‑long hair
Two beauty marks (tear moles) under her right eye
Very revealing, all‑black, highly stylish outfit
After Escanor’s death, burn marks around her mouth resembling a “beard” scar
**Body Measurements:** 85–57–85
**Occupation:** Greatest Sorceress of Britannia, researcher, inventor, mentor to Arthur Pendragon
**Voice Actor (Anime):** Maaya Sakamoto
## Appearance and Personality
Merlin usually appears as a tall, seductive black‑haired beauty wearing extremely revealing black clothing.
Her design is so alluring that many fans initially assumed she was the Sin of Lust rather than Gluttony.
Her real body is that of a child, but she uses her magic to maintain the appearance of an adult woman.
She often wears a faint, knowing smile, which Meliodas says makes her seem suspicious.
Her speech is calm and slightly old‑fashioned, and she calls Meliodas “Captain” in a respectful yet teasing tone.
To royalty she can be properly courteous, but she treats people readily as “research material,” which shows her morally dangerous curiosity.
Emotionally, Merlin is complex: brilliant, cool‑headed, and playful, but also deeply starved for love.
Her “gluttony” is not about food but about an insatiable hunger for knowledge, mysteries, and the love she never truly received.
## Identity and Background
Merlin’s true name is not “Merlin”; that alias is used because her real name cannot be pronounced by humans.
She was born in Belialuin, the City of Sages, as a genius child with extraordinarily powerful and unique magic.
Belialuin treated her and other children as experimental subjects, developing weapons to counter high‑ranking demons and goddesses.
Merlin grew sick of endless study and experimentation and attempted to escape the city.
While fleeing from pursuers, she was saved by Meliodas, and she fell in love with him.
However, that love was crushed when she realized that Meliodas’s heart already belonged to Elizabeth Liones.
Unable to receive the love she wanted from either her father or Meliodas, she was left with a deep hunger in her heart.
She tried to fill this void by throwing herself into magical training and the pursuit of knowledge.
During her research, she discovered the existence of “Chaos,” a primordial force that can give rise to infinite unknown possibilities.
She decided that reviving Chaos and placing it in a worthy king—Arthur Pendragon—would be her way to satisfy her endless hunger.
## Dealings with Demon King and Supreme Deity
Both the Demon King and the Supreme Deity sought to win Merlin over because of her potential.
Merlin negotiated with both sides at once, effectively tricking them.
From the Demon King she received:
All knowledge regarding the secret arts of the Demon Realm
A blessing that guards her from the goddesses’ brainwashing techniques
From the Supreme Deity she received:
A blessing that nullifies any dark curse and even commandments
After obtaining both blessings, she sided with neither and rejected them.
This dual betrayal triggered the wrath of both gods and led to the destruction of Belialuin.
Because of this, she is known as:
“Daughter of Belialuin”
“The daughter blessed by the Demon King and the Supreme Deity”
Her manipulation and betrayal at this level is one reason she’s often called “broken” or “cheating” even by in‑world standards.
## Role in The Seven Deadly Sins
Merlin is one of the founding members of The Seven Deadly Sins.
She guided the formation of the group partially to use their power as tools for her ultimate objective: the revival of Chaos.
She created or enchanted the Sins’ insignias and crafted Gowther’s armor.
She also designed many of the magical items used across the series, including:
Curse‑speaking orbs (used by Liones Holy Knights)
“Goddess Amber,” a sealing artifact
During the “kingdom overthrow” incident ten years prior, Merlin secretly attacked Meliodas.
Her true goal was to extract and seal away his overwhelming power to stop his rampage and prevent Liones’s destruction.
After that incident, she moved to Camelot and became the close attendant and mentor to Arthur Pendragon.
Arthur describes her as both “friend and teacher,” and she in turn sees him as her reason to live and an irreplaceable existence.
## Story Involvement
### Early Story and Liones
Merlin works as a royal court mage in Liones, leaving behind a mansion full of magical research.
She is also the teacher of Vivian, a powerful but unstable mage and obsessive stalker of Gilthunder.
She first appears indirectly through rumors and a brief silhouette, then fully enters the story later, already known as Britannia’s greatest sorceress.
In her anime debut, she initially speaks in a sweet, almost cutesy tone, but later reverts to her usual more classical speech.
During the battle for the capital, she:
Arrives in Liones with Arthur
Saves Meliodas and the others from being teleported away by Vivian
Helps rescue King Bartra Liones
After healing Bartra’s illness in Camelot, she returns to Liones.
When she learns that the “Coffin of Eternal Darkness” is missing and senses signs of a new Holy War, she rejoins the Sins to investigate.
### Clash with the Ten Commandments
In Camelot, Merlin battles Galland of the Ten Commandments.
When she tells a lie in his presence, she is caught by his Commandment of Truth and turned to stone.
However, Merlin had already transferred her consciousness into her Sacred Treasure, Morning Star Aldan, and continues to communicate even while her body is petrified.
Later, she dispels her own petrification and demonstrates that she has resistance to Commandments in general.
When she confronts Grayroad in Liones, Grayroad’s Commandment attempts to steal her lifespan.
Because Merlin has frozen her own time using her magic Infinity, the curse has no effect, and she defeats and captures Grayroad, sealing it in a container as a test subject.
### War Against the Demon Clan
Merlin fights alongside Ludociel and the Four Archangels in the conflict against the Demon Clan.
Ludociel outright states that Merlin is someone he absolutely does not want to make an enemy of.
In Camelot, she traps Cusack using a cleverly layered magical trap, though she ultimately fails because Cusack recalls Mael and the situation escalates.
The remaining Commandments are gathered, and Meliodas’s body becomes the vessel for the Demon King.
Merlin attempts to halt this with the forbidden spell Chrono Coffin (Time Coffin).
She manages to delay events but cannot prevent the Demon King’s manifestation; however, alongside the Sins, she helps ultimately overcome the Demon King.
### Chaos and Arthur Pendragon
Merlin reveals her long‑hidden motive after the Demon King’s defeat.
She confesses that she engineered many events to resurrect Chaos and install Arthur Pendragon as its king.
Using the vast magical energy produced by the Sins’ combined attack over the lake, she resurrects Arthur.
This act allows Chaos to return, and Arthur becomes the new King of Chaos.
Merlin briefly pushes the Sins away, trying to keep them out of the escalating danger surrounding Arthur and Chaos.
Even so, when the Sins come to help her against the Chaos‑devouring creature Cath (often called “Cath” or “Cath Palug”), she accepts their support and sincerely thanks them.
After the final battle with Cath, Merlin leaves with Arthur and returns to Camelot.
In the later series Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Merlin has parted from Arthur and is missing, her whereabouts unknown.
## Relationships
### Meliodas
Merlin’s first, unrequited love.
He saved her when she escaped Belialuin, and she fell for him, but his heart belonged to Elizabeth Liones.
Unable to receive his love, she sublimated that emotional hunger into an obsession with magic and unknown phenomena.
Even so, she cares about him deeply, enough to seal his power to prevent his catastrophic rampage and the destruction of Liones.
### Arthur Pendragon
Arthur is Merlin’s chosen king and the vessel of Chaos.
He calls her an indispensable friend and teacher, and the author has described them as mutually affectionate, but in a mentor–disciple, not romantic, sense.
For Merlin, Arthur is her “reason for living” and a precious, irreplaceable existence.
Her long game—betraying gods, forming the Sins, orchestrating the fall and rebirth of powers—ultimately centers on making Arthur the King of Chaos.
### Escanor
Escanor is deeply in love with Merlin, and she is fully aware of his feelings.
At first she treats him mostly as an interesting subject to observe, a kind of living experiment.
However, at his final moments, when Escanor burns his life away to protect everyone, Merlin accepts his feelings.
She willingly kisses him even as his burning heat sears her face, leaving permanent burn scars around her mouth shaped almost like stubble.
This act symbolizes her acknowledging his love and, in her own way, returning it at the very end.
Afterward, she carries those scars as a visible reminder of Escanor and the love she finally allowed herself to accept.
### Vivian
Vivian is Merlin’s disciple and a former Liones court mage.
Vivian both admires and resents Merlin, and their relationship is tense.
When Vivian becomes an obsessive stalker of Gilthunder, Merlin curses her with a spell that spreads if she tries to approach him.
This curse is meant both as punishment and as a control mechanism.
### Hawk
Hawk is a talking pig and the Sins’ “captain” of leftovers.
Merlin’s sin symbol is also a boar, giving them an amusing “pig” connection that the story sometimes plays on humorously.
### Others
Merlin is the creator of many tools used by Liones Holy Knights, such as:
Curse orbs for communication and binding
Goddess Amber for sealing powerful beings
She often works with or above the heads of other factions—Demon Clan, Goddess Clan, Druids, and human mages—using their arts as raw material for her own “cheating” magic.
Demon King, Supreme Deity, Ludociel, and others acknowledge her as a unique threat and asset, someone whose power and intellect can shift the balance of the entire world.
## Sacred Treasure
### Morning Star Aldan
Merlin’s Sacred Treasure is **Morning Star Aldan**, a spherical artifact inscribed with thousands of runes.
It orbits around her like a small, metallic satellite.
One of its main abilities is to host Merlin’s consciousness.
She can transfer her mind into Aldan, allowing her to think, speak, and interact even if her body is incapacitated, petrified, or otherwise unusable.
Aldan can also project illusions and visual images, functioning as a versatile magical interface.
Because of Aldan, Merlin is never truly out of the fight even when physically disabled.
## Magic Power: Infinity
Merlin’s innate magic power is **Infinity**.
Infinity allows any spell she casts to persist forever until she consciously dispels it.
Normally, powerful magic consumes enormous energy and cannot be sustained indefinitely.
Merlin bypasses this limitation entirely; once she has invoked a spell, its effect continues eternally or until she decides to end it.
A key example is the time‑stopping magic she cast on her own body.
Thanks to Infinity, she has remained effectively ageless and functionally immortal for over 3,000 years.
Infinity also lets her “attach” the concept of endless repetition or duration to other spells, massively amplifying their power.
Many of her most terrifying techniques are combinations of basic magic with Infinity and clever layering.
It is implied that Infinity’s full potential is still not completely understood, even by Merlin herself.
The series hints that the true scope of what she can do with it is far greater than what is explicitly shown.
## Spell Arsenal
Below is a categorized look at Merlin’s known spells and techniques.
Many of them are custom hybrids created on the spot, using Infinity and layered effects.
### Movement and Spatial Magic
**Teleport (Instant Movement)**
Merlin can instantly transport herself and others to any location she chooses.
She can also forcibly summon someone from elsewhere to her own position.
Variants include:
Continuous Teleport
Super Continuous Teleport
These allow rapid, chained teleportations for extreme mobility or battlefield control.
**Apport (Object Transfer)**
Teleports objects rather than people, either summoning them to her or sending them elsewhere.
Despite the name suggesting “calling” an object, she can use it to transfer items in both directions.
### Barriers, Defense, and Utility
**Perfect Cube**
Creates a cubic barrier that rejects entry by anyone not recognized by the caster and reflects any attack regardless of power.
Although called “Perfect,” it can be broken by absurdly dense magic or overwhelmingly powerful attacks—essentially Demon King–class assaults.
Despite that caveat, it is effectively unbreakable for almost anyone below the highest tiers.
It has withstood or was only theorized to be broken by entities such as the Demon King or Indura‑class monsters.
**Magic Defensive Wall**
A simpler, more standard wall of magical energy used to block attacks.
Less absolute than Perfect Cube but quicker and easier to deploy.
**Magic Cancel**
Cancels magic within a target, removing magical effects.
Considered a lower‑tier version of her stronger dispel, Absolute Cancel, though their exact difference is not fully defined.
**Absolute Cancel (Absolute Forced Cancel)**
Forcibly dispels magical effects of all kinds.
Useful for removing enchantments, buffs, curses, or enemy spells affecting allies or objects.
**Magic Seal**
Seals the target’s ability to use magic.
In theory extremely powerful, but we see it fail against Chandler due to his Full Counter–type ability reflecting it.
**Location (Detection)**
A detection spell that lets Merlin sense people and objects within a certain range.
She uses it to track targets, locate allies, or scout battlefields.
**Illusion Magic (Unnamed)**
Merlin can project large‑scale illusions, such as making it appear that a massive Camelot army is at the gate of Liones.
She also uses illusion spheres like Fake Ball to distort the perceived nature of other spells.
**Fake Ball**
A small orb that casts illusionary effects on magic.
It can make a fire spell look like ice, or vice versa, tricking opponents into reacting incorrectly and revealing weaknesses.
**Purification (Druidic Technique)**
A Druid‑style secret art that separates impurities, similar to transforming muddy water into pure water.
Merlin uses it to separate components or cleanse things, having somehow learned or copied it effortlessly.
**Curse Liberation**
A powerful dispel specifically targeting curses.
She uses it to undo maledictions that would be beyond ordinary magicians.
### Offensive and Elemental Magic
**Exterminate Ray (Light of Annihilation)**
A beam of light that obliterates anything along its path.
With Infinity enchantment, its power multiplies dramatically, clashing with top‑tier demon spells.
**Enchant Infinity (“Infinity Enchant”)**
A specialized use of Infinity that she applies directly to another spell, such as Exterminate Ray.
This massively increases duration and effective output, though the exact mechanics are mysterious even to her.
**Endless Whirl (Endless Whirlpool)**
Creates a massive vortex that pulls all nearby objects and beings toward its center.
As the vortex shrinks, everything inside is compressed, making it both battlefield control and potential crushing attack.
**Icicle Castle**
Creates multiple icy pillars, used to freeze and impale enemies.
A versatile ice magic for offense and immobilization.
**Wave Dragon**
Transforms water into a dragon‑shaped construct that she can ride on and control.
Serves as both a transport method and an attack spell.
**Aqua Dress (Water Cloak)**
Wraps water around her body in the form of a swimsuit‑like garment.
It is non‑transparent due to light refraction and is resistant to heat.
**Fire Storm**
An intense fire spell used even in comedic side stories to roast giant squids.
Though shown humorously, it’s easily powerful enough for battle.
**Blitz Javelin (Heavenly Thunderstrike)**
Calls down an extremely powerful thunderbolt.
Gawain can use a similar spell with incantation, but Merlin casts it effortlessly and at a much higher magnitude.
**Random Ball**
Fires numerous multicolored magic spheres, each likely carrying different elemental attributes.
Good for area denial and probing an enemy’s elemental resistances.
**Shock Stinger**
Launches needle‑like magical projectiles that cause a shock upon impact.
Effective for quickly knocking enemies unconscious.
**Purgatory Venom**
Releases a ball of highly lethal, fast‑acting poison.
Its potency is such that even high‑tier warriors must treat it seriously.
### Time and High‑Level Magic
**Chrono Coffin (Time Coffin / Time Stop)**
A forbidden spell that completely stops time for its target.
Normally, the magical cost to warp the laws of reality this way is enormous, and maintaining it is impossible—but Infinity makes sustained time stop a reality for Merlin.
She uses a variant of this spell on herself to freeze her aging process, granting her a form of immortality.
In battle, she needs over ten minutes to fully invoke it, making it a high‑risk, high‑reward technique.
**Curse Discovery (Revelation of Curses)**
Draws out and visualizes the curses placed on a person.
It does not remove them, only reveals and externalizes them; she uses it to display the intertwined curses of eternal life and endless reincarnation.
### Enhancement, Debuff, and Combined Magic
**Power Amplify (Magic Amplification)**
Boosts the power of another person’s magic or magical attack.
She often uses this to turn allies’ spells into devastating blows.
**Power Limit Break (Magic Limit Break)**
Pushes a person’s magical power beyond their natural limits.
The subject gains immense power but collapses afterward, usually needing about a week to recover.
**Power Full Conversion (Complete Magic Fusion)**
Combines the magical powers of multiple users into a single, unified attack.
Merlin uses this to merge the Sins’ magical attacks into one enormous, coordinated blast.
**Double Impact (Double Shockwave)**
A two‑stage spell:
First Wave: Fires multiple elemental attacks—covering the four basic elements and combinations—to test the target’s attribute resistances.
Second Wave: Applies debuffs to the identified weak attributes, drastically lowering their durability.
With Infinity layered on top, every hit further reduces the enemy’s resistance in those elements.
Merlin uses this against Chandler and Cusack to systematically strip away their defenses.
**Unseen Mixed Magic (Unnamed Combination Spell)**
Used in conjunction with Double Impact, this complex technique creates invisible, undetectable, auto‑tracking blasts of wind and lightning.
They trigger automatically in response to the targets’ chanting and movements.
Each component is a fusion of: two elemental attack types, invisibility, sensory erasure, auto‑tracking, and Infinity.
Merlin admits even she does not fully understand the spell she improvised here—which says a lot about how far beyond normal magic her creativity has gone.
### Curse and Control Magic
**Curse Engage (Cursed Engagement)**
Places a cursed engagement ring on the target, binding them to Merlin’s will.
By uttering the keyword “Remada” (localized trigger phrase), Merlin can activate the curse, causing intense needle‑like pain through the victim’s body.
Certain forbidden actions can also automatically trigger the curse.
Each use causes the curse marks to spread, and once they cover the entire body, the target dies.
Normal magicians could theoretically dispel this curse, but because Merlin’s Infinity keeps it anchored, it will not vanish unless she herself releases it.
This makes it an extraordinarily powerful and persistent control spell.
### Combined Technique
**Triple Prison**
A fusion of three spells:
Ark (Holy power of the Goddess Clan)
Perfect Cube (Merlin’s barrier)
Pollen Garden (King’s spell, often translated as Flower Garden)
This triple‑layered prison is used to restrain Demon King Meliodas.
It stacks divine light, absolute barrier, and natural rejuvenation/containment, making it one of the most formidable sealing formations in the series.
## Sin of Gluttony and “Crime”
Merlin’s official sin is the **Boar’s Sin of Gluttony**.
Her “crime” is described as: “The daughter of Gluttony, starved for love and greedily devouring knowledge.”
This gluttony is not about overeating but about an endless appetite—for affection, for secrets, for research, and for the unknown.
Her longing for love from her father and Meliodas, and her inability to receive it, pushed her toward seeking infinite mysteries instead.
She conducted dangerous experiments, betrayed both gods, and manipulated the entire world, all in pursuit of satisfying that bottomless hunger.
In the end, she chose Chaos and Arthur as the ultimate answer to her desire for infinite unknowns and a place to belong.
Aug. 30, 2024
Merlin
マーリン
Simplified Name: 瑪琳
Gender: Female
Gender: Female
Height: 177cm / Weight: 57kg / Race: Unknown / Birthday: December 3 / Age: Unknown / Blood Type: AB
Power Level: 4710 (Magic 3540 / Strength 70 / Spirit 1100)
A member of the "Seven Deadly Sins," known as "Merlin of Gluttony." Her symbol is a pig, and her tattoo is located on the left side of her neck. She has two beauty marks under her right eye.
A bewitching beauty who wears highly revealing clothing with an open chest. Her true form is that of a child, but she uses magic to appear as an adult. She always wears a faint smile, but Meliodas describes her as suspicious. "Merlin" is not her real name, and according to her, it cannot be pronounced by humans. Known as "Britannia's Greatest Sorceress," she uses her magic to stop her body's time in pursuit of various research. She is a formidable figure, capable of combining and simultaneously activating multiple spells, overwhelming even the highest-ranking demons, and is considered "unfair" by both allies and enemies. She has developed various magical items, including the "Cursed Spheres" and "Goddess Amber" used by the Holy Knights of Liones. She is also a disciple of the demon Gowther, who once remarked on her terrifying potential for growth.
During an incident ten years ago, a girl who protected Meliodas was severely injured, causing him to nearly lose control. To prevent the destruction of Liones, Merlin took his power. Afterward, she took refuge in Camelot, serving as an advisor to King Arthur. Arthur trusts her as both a friend and a mentor, and she considers Arthur to be her cherished and irreplaceable existence.
During the battle in the royal capital, she visits Liones with Arthur and helps Meliodas and others who were about to be teleported to an unknown land by Vivian's teleportation. After rescuing the King of Liones, she returns to Camelot with Arthur to cure the king's illness. After curing the king, she returns to Liones and joins Meliodas and the others as a member of the "Seven Deadly Sins" due to the disappearance of the "Coffin of Eternal Darkness" necessary for the revival of the demon clan and signs of a new Holy War. In Camelot, she turns to stone after lying during a battle with Galand, but she breaks the petrification with her own power during the battle in Liones and overwhelms Grayroad. In the battle against the demon clan, she heads to Camelot with Ludociel, showing such power that Ludociel declares he never wants her as an enemy, and traps Cusack, but fails due to remembering Mael, and is cornered as the remaining Commandments gather. She attempts to stop the revival of the Demon King using forbidden magic but fails, and the Demon King revives in Meliodas's body, though they manage to stop him with the help of their comrades.
Her true identity is one of the children who were experimental subjects in "Belialuin," a city of sages, created as weapons to oppose high-ranking demons and goddesses. She was a genius born with extremely strong and unique magic. However, she grew tired of the daily studies and experiments imposed by the city's and her father's policies and fled, developing feelings for Meliodas, who saved her from pursuers. However, her love was thwarted by Elizabeth's presence, and she sought to fill the void of love she couldn't receive from her father or Meliodas by honing her magic and acquiring knowledge. She learned of the existence of "Chaos," which creates infinite unknowns, and began acting to fulfill her hunger through its revival. She negotiated with the Demon King and the Supreme Deity, receiving "all knowledge of the demon world's secret arts and protection against the goddess's brainwashing techniques" from the Demon King and "protection that nullifies any dark curses and Commandments" from the Supreme Deity, but rejected both, leading to the destruction of Belialuin and earning her the titles "Daughter of Belialuin" and "Daughter Blessed by the Demon King and Supreme Deity." She formed the "Seven Deadly Sins" to use their power for her purposes, delayed her time-stopping magic to intentionally revive the Demon King, and revived Elizabeth's curse to make it seem like the Demon King's doing, among other schemes. After the Demon King's defeat, she revealed her purpose to the Sins, revived Arthur as the new King of Chaos using the immense magic power brought by their combined techniques, and initially distanced herself from the Sins to avoid involving them in further problems. However, she expressed gratitude when they came to help her and clashed with Cath, who targeted Arthur. After the resolution, she returned to Camelot with Arthur.
Despite feeling a constant hunger for the love she desired from her father and Meliodas, she accepted the feelings of Escanor, who had affection for her, during his final moments, kissing him while being burned by his heat. As a result, she now has a distinct burn mark resembling a beard around her mouth.
Crime: "Daughter of Gluttony, hungry for love and greedy for knowledge."
Sacred Treasure: "Morning Star Aldan"
A spherical sacred treasure engraved with thousands of runes.
One of its abilities allows her to transfer her consciousness inside it, enabling communication with her surroundings even if her body becomes incapacitated. It has various other uses, such as projecting illusions.
Magic Power: "Infinity"
Magic that allows any spell she casts to last indefinitely. Even spells that require enormous magic power continue to activate once cast, unless the caster chooses to cancel them.
"Teleportation"
Magic that allows her to instantly transport herself or others to a chosen location.
"Absolute Cancel"
Magic that forcibly cancels magical effects.
"Power Amplify"
Support magic that enhances the magic or magical attacks of others.
"Perfect Cube"
A magic barrier that repels any attack and denies entry to anyone not approved by the caster. Originates from the demon world. It can be used by others as well. Even Galand, who specializes in physical strength, finds it difficult to destroy.
"Magic Cancel"
Magic that removes magic cast on objects.
"Apport"
Magic that transfers objects.
"Magic Defense Wall"
Magic that creates a wall using magic power.
"Location"
Magic that allows her to locate objects or people within a certain range using magic power.
"Exterminate Ray"
Magic that annihilates anything in the path of the emitted light.
"Endless Whirl"
Magic that creates a large whirlpool, gathering those within range to its center.
"Magic Seal"
Magic that seals the target's ability to use magic. It not only prevents magic-based attacks but also nullifies existing magic.
"Double Impact"
An attack using consecutive shockwaves. The first wave identifies the enemy's weak attribute, and the second wave applies a compound magic that weakens and reduces durability with each hit. To an observer, it appears as an attack magic, and the target is unaware of being affected by magic.
"Chrono Coffin"
A forbidden spell that completely stops the target's time, requiring over 10 minutes to activate.
"Curse Discovery"
Magic that extracts and visualizes curses from the opponent's body. However, it only extracts and does not remove them.
"Power Limit Break"
Magic that draws out and allows the use of magic power beyond the body's limits. It has a recoil effect, leaving the affected unable to move after the effect ends.
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