Sorcerer

Sorcerer is a term used to refer to any human who uses magic, a female sorcerer being a sorceress. Sorcerers can be good or bad. There are several types of sorcerers:

• Warlock is the term for a male sorcerer. Eg. Merlin
• Witch is the term for a female sorcerer. Often, this term is used negatively or derogatorily, to imply that the sorceress is dark/evil in some way, though that doesn't necessarily mean they are evil. Eg. Morgause
• Druids are peaceful people who worship nature and use their magic for good. Some Druids deflect, abandoning their peaceful nature, and become renegade. Typically this happens in response to years of oppression and persecution. Eg. Mordred
• Dragonlords are a type of warlock that are spiritual brothers with the dragons, which gives them the ability to speak in the Dragon Tongue and tame or command the dragons. The vast majority of the Dragonlord population were wiped out, along with their brothers-in-spirit, the dragons, during the Great Purge. Eg. Balinor
• Seers are people with the ability to see future events in dreams or visions, known as the Sight. The gift of Sight can be enhanced if the person looks into a crystal from the the birthplace of magic, the Crystal Cave, like the Crystal of Neahtid. It is possible that even those without the Sight (or even without magic) may experience visions of the future when looking into crystals from the Crystal Cave, but only those who naturally have the Sight are referred to as Seers. Eg.Morgana
• Druid seers are seers born of a Druid family. Eg. Lochru
• Renegade sorcerers are people who are mad with power, motivated primarily by self-serving desires, vengeance, and other dark motives, and/or acting with no regard for the lives of others, the respectful guidelines to magic, or the laws of the Old Religion. More often than not, they use Dark Magic to achieve their evil and selfish goals. Eg. Tauren, Alvarr

Known Sorcerers

Merlin the most powerful sorcerer, a dragonlord, Gaius's apprentice, and Arthur's servant.

Morgana Pendragon is a seer, a witch and a High Priestess of the Triple Goddess, and Arthur's half-sister.

Mordred is a druid. He eventually becomes a knight of Camelot.

Balinor is a dragonlord and Merlin's father.

Tauren is the leader of a band of renegade sorcerers sworn to bring down Uther Pendragon.

Alvarr is also a renegade sorcerer whose parents were killed in the Great Purge. He used Morgana to acquire the Crystal of Neahtid

Morgause is the half-sister of Morgana Pendragon. She helped Morgana to take the Throne of Camelot and is a powerful High Priestess of the Old Religion. She sacrificed her life for Morgana on the Isle of the Blessed in order to bring the dorocha through the Veil into their world from the Spirit World. From the Spirit World, she gave Morgana the necromancy coin that brought back Lancelot as a shade.

Gaius studied magic long ago, but when Uther Pendragon outlawed magic, Gaius abandoned his pursuit of it. Since then, he has only used magic when he had no other choice.

Nimueh was a powerful witch and a High Priestess of the Old Religion. The Great Purge began after she casts a spell on Uther's wife to help the woman become pregnant and she died in childbirth.

Alice was Gaius's true love. She excels at healing magic.

Edwin Muirden was a renegade sorcerer who used Elanthia Beetles in his to kill Uther to avenge the deaths of his parents during the Great Purge.

Taliesin was a powerful, ancient seer.

Lochru is a Druid Seer, who appears to Merlin when he finds him dying in a cave and warns him of the threat of 'Arthur's Bane'.

Cornelius Sigan was the greatest sorcerer Camelot has ever known, before Merlin. He returned to life, using very powerful magic that allowed his preserved soul to possess someone, and wreaked havoc on Camelot until Merlin defeated him.