This part of the tale draws heavily on the Welsh Mabinogion some of Merlin's adventures thus resemble Taran's in Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, which also uses that body of legend. There he gets drawn into a great conflict between good and evil, and the story mutates into a high fantasy quest populated by weird and mythic creatures. After some misadventures when his supernatural powers develop, he decides to set about ""finding my past, my identity."" Somehow he makes his way across the ocean to Fincayra, a strange place not quite of this world. Merlin himself narrates, at first in realistic mode as a child called Emrys in a grubby village in Wales, where he had washed ashore five years earlier he is haunted by his inability to remember his earlier life. In this coming-of-age fantasy, Barron (The Merlin Effect) investigates what he perceives as the mystery of the great enchanter's little-mentioned childhood and adolescence.
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