Editing Myrddin (section)

==History==
===Background===
Myrddin was not a member of [[the Inaugural Wards Team]].<ref name="Reddit wards">Armsmaster isn't one of the original wards. Nor are Rime, Bastion, or Myrddin. - Wildbow [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3eg5nm/_/ctemd2v on Reddit], [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18273910 archived on Spacebattles]</ref> Although it is unknown when he joined the [[Protectorate]], he was, at the very least, the leader of the [[Chicago]] branch since 2002.<ref name="I28x e1" /> At some point, the [[PRT]] added his DNA samples into their database.<ref>He backed out of Chevalier’s data until he was at the original screen.  He checked the samples Accord had provided him with.<br>
:Select sub-database:
:A)  PRT (Protectorate, Wards) samples
:B) Non-PRT (evidence database) samples
:C) Misc samples
Further investigation revealed the full truth.  Accord had gotten his hands on a database of DNA from countless members of the Protectorate and the Wards, as well as scraps of material from certain powers, where traces remained behind. - [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref>

In 2009, Myrddin and [[Armsmaster]] encountered [[Francis Krouse]] and [[Gwerrus]] during [[the Simurgh]]'s attack on [[Madison|Madison, Wisconsin]]. After sending Krouse into a pocket dimension,<ref name="17.4 e1">“No,” Gwerrus growled in her deep voice.  “Stupid boy.”<br><br>“Begone,” a man intoned.<br><br>Krouse felt himself slip from her grasp.  He dropped to the ground.<br><br>“Do it quickly,” another man said.<br><br>Krouse turned to look, but he saw everything through a monochrome haze.  His own hand seemed smoky, faint.<br><br>''I’m a ghost?'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.4]]</ref> he glimpsed the idea behind the [[Case 53]]'s power<ref name="17.4 e2" /> before Armsmaster set Gwerrus ablaze.<ref name="17.4 e3" /> He had a short discussion with [[Dragon]].<ref name="17.4 e6">“Dragon?” the armored man said.<br><br>“''I’m here,''” the woman’s voice came from the armbands that they’d fixed around their wrists.<br><br>“Myrddin just shunted some kid out to minimize contact.  I saw some blood.  If I mark the location, can we get emergency services here for when he pops back in?”<br><br>“''We’re overloaded.  Was it a severe injury''?”<br><br>“Bad, but not severe.”<br><br>“''We don’t have the vehicles or personnel to spare, and quarantine will still be in effect.''” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.4]]</ref><ref name="17.4 e7">“Right.  Where did our target land?”<br><br>“''Two hundred feet away, down your four o’clock, Armsmaster.''”<br><br>“How are we for exposure?”<br><br>“''You two are good for another seventeen minutes at the exposure you’re facing.  Twenty if we push it.  I can have a flight unit to you shortly.''”<br><br>Krouse hurried to follow them as they changed direction and began briskly walking toward the end of the street..<br><br>Myrddin spoke up, “How’s the fight going?”<br><br>“''It goes well.  But we can’t let our guards down.''” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.4]]</ref><ref name="17.4 e8">“No,” Myrddin agreed.  “This is a bad one.  Too many possible avenues to cover, too much exposure time across the board.”<br><br>“''We’re doubling down quarantine, and we’ll have a processing center in place shortly.  The President is pushing the D.D.I.D measure.''”<br><br>“It’s going to backfire,” Myrddin said.  “I’ve said it ''before'', I’ll say it ''now'', and I’ll remind you all I said it with every chance I get, from now until the day I die.  It’s going to backfire.”<br><br>“''I don’t disagree'',” Dragon said.<br><br>“But you’re helping to enforce it.”<br><br>“''I’m following orders.''”<br><br>“No offense, I like you, Dragon, but that’s the oldest excuse in the book.”<br><br>“''I’m merely picking my battles.''”<br><br>“If you’re not going to fight ''this'' battle, then what will push you to make a stand?”<br><br>“Myrddin,” Armsmaster cut in, “Ease up.  And pay attention.  This is it.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.4]]</ref> When Myrddin and Armsmaster reached their target area,<ref name="17.4 e9">Krouse stared.  It was a section of building.  White tile and white walls, a desk, and a metal cabinet with a shattered glass pane.  File folders were strewn over the floor and desk.  In the midst of it all was a man in a white lab coat.  His body had been shattered by the impact.<br><br>“Damnation.  If we could only look into this…” Armsmaster said.<br><br>“Priority one.  Minimize exposure.”<br><br>“I know.  But this stands to answer a great many questions.  If we can find where she opened that portal to-”<br><br>“If she’s answering questions for us, we don’t want to know,” Myrddin said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.4]]</ref> Armsmaster cordoned off the laboratory section before they started heading towards another danger site.<ref name="17.4 e11">Dragon chimed in, her voice sounding from the armbands on their wrists, “''Can’t call in a strike until fifteen minutes after the Simurgh is gone.  Mark the area.  I’ve got another danger site a quarter-mile to your six o’clock.  Then we’re getting you clear.''”<br><br>“Got it,” Armsmaster said.<br><br>Armsmaster tossed a small canister into the middle of the section of laboratory, they cordoned off the area with red tape, and then they left.  Armsmaster used a grappling hook to fly to a nearby rooftop while Myrddin took to the air. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.4]]</ref>

In the aftermath of [[the Simurgh]]'s attack, he delivered a press statement to boost morale and acknowledge major contributors.<ref name="17.6 e1">When a minute passed and nobody spoke up, Krouse turned the volume up for the television.<br>[...]<br>''Chicago Protectorate leader Myrddin is quoted as stating, ‘This is a win for the good guys.  Scion arrived early to put the pressure on within minutes of her arrival and Eidolon delivered the final blows, driving her off.  We’re getting better at fighting these guys, and it’s showing.’'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/13 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.6]]</ref> When [[Krouse]] later gave [[Noelle]] half a [[vial]] and alerted the [[PRT]] at St. Mary's Hospital,<ref name="17.6 e2">''A quarantine processing center is already established at St. Mary’s Hospital, servicing city residents who were not evacuated before temporary blockades were set up.'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/13 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.6]]</ref><ref>“But the Travelers are from another world,” I said.  “Aren’t they?”<br><br>“The Simurgh,” he said, simply.  “Madison, Wisconsin, one and a half years ago.  She opened a dimensional gate.  You were there, Myrddin.  You met Trickster and Echidna.”<br><br>Myrddin’s eyes widened.  “The hospital room.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/02 Excerpt] from  [[Scourge 19.4]]</ref> Myrddin, [[Parahuman_Characters#Anomaly|Anomaly]], [[Revel]], and three other heroes responded to the scene.<ref name="17.7 e1">Krouse stepped over to the window.  The street was lit only by the minimal moonlight that filtered through the clouds.  There were police cars and fire trucks massing inside the quarantine area, as well as black vans with pale purple stripes and the letters P.R.T. on the sides.  The people outside the black vans had uniforms like the man he’d just beat up, only they wore helmets.<br><br>There were capes, too.  Krouse could see the one with the brown cloak and staff.  Myrddin.  A half dozen superheroes clustered around him.  His team?  It was a surprise that so many heroes were still present in the city.  Did they have to undergo their own kind of quarantine processing as well? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/14 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.7]]</ref> He and his subordinates Anomaly and Revel approached the hospital room;<ref name="17.7 e5">Myrddin was flying, now.  Two of his subordinates were advancing as well.  One had a beachball-sized ball of jet black extending a foot away from his splayed hands, crackling with arcs of electricity that were both absolutely black and somehow still ''glowing'' enough to be seen in the dark.  The other figure was an Asian woman with a painted mask and a giant lantern in her hands.<br><br>“We have a fight incoming,” Krouse said, backing away from the window. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/14 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.7]]</ref> Myrddin shattered the window and then flew into the room.<ref name="17.7 e6" /> Despite having limited experience with his power,<ref name="17.7 e2" /> Krouse and Noelle successfully escaped from the scene.<ref name="17.7 e17">Then he saw it.  A belated arrival to the party.  A police car coming down the street in the distance, maneuvering to pull in and join the ranks of officers and rescue personnel on site.<br><br>Krouse turned his head, trying to catch Noelle and the crowd in the same field of vision.<br><br>He swapped her for someone at the back of the crowd.  A moment later, gathering enough air, he swapped himself.<br><br>Krouse found himself sitting backwards in the driver’s seat.  He flipped himself over and, as nonchalantly as he could manage, pulled away, heading deeper into the quarantine area. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/14 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.7]]</ref>

Around a month before the start of [[Worm]], [[Faultline’s Crew]] had a job in [[Philadelphia]] and battled [[Chevalier]] and Myrddin. Although it was a close call, Faultline’s Crew managed to complete their job and did not lose.<ref name="5.x e1">His brusque answer only stalled the conversation for a moment before Newter got it going again, “Okay, bro, tell these girls who we went up against last month.”<br>[...]<br>“The other one.  The job in Philadelphia.”<br><br>“Ah.  Chevalier and Myrddin.”<br>[...]<br>“And you beat them,” the dark haired girl said, disbelieving.<br><br>“We didn’t lose!” Newter crowed.<br><br>“It was a close call,” Gregor added his own two cents.  “Chevalier is leader of Protectorate in Philadelphia.  Myrddin leads Protectorate of Chicago.  These are people whole world recognizes.  They got positions protecting big cities in America because they are strong, because they are smart and talented.  We got the job done, as we always do, and we walked away.” - [[Interlude 5]]</ref>

===Story Start===
He took part in the [[Battle against Leviathan]] by working with [[Eidolon]].<ref name="8.3 e1" /><ref name="8.3 e2" /><ref name="8.3 e3">I couldn’t afford to dwell on what might have happened to Tattletale.  I wiped beads of water from the lenses of my mask with my gloved hands, pushed my hair out of my face, and made a note of my bugs.  There were scant few in the way of bugs that could navigate in this storm.  Myrddin had banished the water from the wave, somehow, but the downpour was making the streets flood fast enough that I didn’t trust anything to crawl.  No, my power was dead useless, here. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10 Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref><ref name="8.3 e4">“Listen!” the voice that cut through the shouts and the frantic chatter was authoritative, strong.<br><br>Armsmaster.  He had Myrddin, Eidolon and Chevalier just behind him.  People turned to listen, myself included. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10 Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> [[Leviathan]] eventually took him out of the fight.<ref name="8.5 e1">Myrddin and Eidolon moved from the coast to the ‘lake’ in the upper end of Downtown.  I saw and sensed Leviathan leap from the water like a dolphin cresting the waves, moving no less than two hundred feet in the air, toward the pair, lashing out with his afterimage in every direction.<br>[...]<br>''Myrddin down, BX-9.'' - [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref>

===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
Saw the scene at the hospital.

Presumably returned to Chicago, minus the [[Armsmaster|potential recruit]] he would have had.

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
Around the same time as the [[Battle against Echidna]],<ref>“It’s worth noting,” Legend said, “That we tracked Manton down.  He and Siberian’s master are the same person.  Dragon and Defiant have a bead on the Nine.  They expect a confrontation to start soon.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/02 Excerpt] from  [[Scourge 19.4]]</ref> [[Blasto]] used a sample of Myrddin's tissue in his attempt to create [[the Morrígan]].<ref name="19.x eInitial">He’d have to take another route.  He withdrew a sample of Myrddin’s tissue, then started splicing it with one seed and the ruined fragments of the Simurgh’s feather.<br><br>It was lunacy, tampering with Endbringer-related materials, but he couldn’t shake the idea that he was on to something.  He’d sustain the Endbringer tissues with other living tissue that could feed it energy or nutrients.  His seeds would bridge the gap.  It would take ten or fifteen minutes before he saw any real results.  There was other work to do in the meantime. - [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> During a short lull in the fight against [[Echidna]], Myrddin told [[Tattletale]] that trying to open a portal to Earth Aleph was too dangerous and that they didn't know if it would work. When Tattletale asked if he said that as the resident dimensional manipulator or because he was afraid it would lead to a revelation about Cauldron, he asked her what she was talking about. Miss Militia told them to stick to the matter at hand before saying that they would talk about it later to which Myrddin agreed.

When Tattletale refused to drop it, Myrddin asked if she was a clone. Skitter told him that she almost wished she was before saying it was the real her. When Chevalier asked about why Miss Militia had attacked Tattletale, she said that Tattletale could cause a catastrophic amount of damage with her information before asking them if they had read her file. Myrddin said that he had before Chevalier asked about the information Tattletale had.

Skitter told them that she could explain and Myrddin looked towards Miss Militia. When she nodded, he raised his voice and told everyone not immediately involved in their discussion to find something else to do. [[Gully]] refused to leave, even after being warned, and Myrddin told her that they were on the brink of another conflict with an S-class threat and that she and her teammates needed to clear out. She told him that she needed to know for others like her. Myrddin told her that it wasn't the time or place before the ground shook and he noted they were out of time.<ref name="19.4">[[Scourge 19.4]]</ref>

Myrddin cut Echidna off before waved his staff and releasing a group of heroes that then materialized around him. When Echidna charged them, he used his staff to write a sign in the air that then exploded outwards to strike Echidna in the face. He then worked with Chevalier against Echidna. He drew a dark sign and sucked the stream of bodies and gore that Echidna released. He then directed the matter he had sucked in as a condensed bullet at Echidna. When Echidna tried to go after Chevalier, Myrddin helped drive her back.

Later, Myrddin caught up with Echidna before hitting her with one of his 'spells'. He went very still and started to concentrate after Echidna vanished. Sometime during the battle between Echidna's clones and the heroes, his concentration was broken and Echidna was released.<ref name="19.5"> - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/05 Excerpt] from  [[Scourge 19.5]]</ref>

Myrddin recovered from holding Echidna at bay underneath Legend and Alexandria before taking to the air. He snuck up on Echidna and the Eidolon clone from behind, pointed his staff at the clone, and then made it disappear. He was sent flying off course when the air the clone had compressed was released before setting himself down on the ground. When the clone reappeared, Myrddin started fighting him again. The clone tried to trap him in a vacuum and hampered Myrddin's flight with headwinds and gusts, and sharp blasts of wind that Myrddin deflected or dodged. Myrddin attacked relentlessly, bombarding the clone with explosions of energy alternating with scattered releases of whatever he managed to suck in while close to the ground.

Later, Myrddin was shoved against a wall by the clone who then pummelled him with repeated blasts of wind. The clone then got close enough to trap Myrddin in his vacuum and Myrddin gave up fighting, focusing his attention on trying to escape. The clone caught him, knocked the staff from his hand, and choked him with the vacuum. [[Regent]] caused the clone to lose his grip on Myrddin's neck and air returned, thrusting Myrddin against the wall. He then fell to the ground where the clone approached him. Skitter and Regent attempted to stop the clone, but the clone managed to kill Myrddin by stabbing him in the throat.<ref name="19.6">[[Scourge 19.6]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
At one point, [[Tohu]] copied his powers.<ref>Tohu, for her part, had Glaistig Uaine, Eidolon and Myrddin’s faces.<br><br>The Endbringers, come to the rescue.  I ''wished'' I could have felt relieved.  It was a reprieve, a chance to get our footing.  But there was an ominousness to it. - [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>