Merlin is known as the Boar’s Sin of Gluttony, the greatest mage in Britannia. She has been around for over 3000 years as her origins are from an ancient civilization that no longer exists. Born with an amazingly powerful skill called Infinite, she was sought out by both the demon clans and the goddess clans as a potential ally. She managed to manipulate both into granting her untold powers but at a cost. She has a close bond to Gowther, Meliodas, Elizabeth and Escanor. Of all the sins she is a destructive force of knowledge that knows no end or equal.
Merlin Stats
Str 8 Dex 14 Con 13 Int 15 Wis 10 Cha 12 (27 point buy)
Str 8 Dex 14 Con 13 Int 15 Wis 12 Cha 13 (after racial and feat mod)
Class Wizard (School of Abjuration) 6
The three things that I wanted to achieve in this build are:
- Perfect Cube and Infinity.
- Arcane Spell Mastery.
- Gluttonous need for Knowledge.
Race
For the race I chose Kalashtar for Merlin but Variant Human would also work well. With Kalashtar she gains Dual Mind, Mental Discipline, Mind Link, and Severed from Dreams. This slew of abilities grants her advantage on all Wis saving throws, resistance to psychic damage, telepathic speech, immunity to spells and magical effects that cause her to dream or go to sleep, and the language Celestial, and +2 to Wis, and +1 to Cha.
Background
For Background I chose Sage for Merlin. With Sage she gains Persuasion, Investigation, the languages of Infernal and Draconic, and the Researcher Feature. This satisfies her hunger for knowledge by allowing her to either recall a piece of lore or to know where to obtain it.
Class
Merlin’s class breakdown is Wizard 6 (School of Abjuration). With this class Merlin gains access to as many magical spells as she has money or time to gather, the ability to create a hit point shield that protects from damage and then the ability to lend it to others as well. This class, combined with her racial abilities and background lend to a versatile and devastating character build.
Wizard 1 is the first part of Merlin’s build. She gains the skills of Arcana and History, Spellcasting and Arcane Recovery.
Wizard 2 is where she gains access to her Perfect Cube ability in the guise of Arcane Ward. Arcane ward allows Merlin to shield herself in a hit point wart maximum equal to twice her wizard level + Int modifier and can be refreshed when she cast an abjuration spell of higher than cantrip. She also gains Abjuration Savant that makes it cheaper to copy abjuration spells.
Wizard 3 gives her access to 2nd level spells
Wizard 4 is where she picks up the feat Metamagic Adept. It is here where she will take Empowered Spell and Extended Spell. These two Metamagics imitate her innate skill of Infinity and Amplify Spell. Now she can enhance the length of any spell she cast to last up to 24 hours if she wishes. Empowered Spell allows her to ramp up her the potency of her spells in a similar fashion to her Amplify Spell ability.
Wizard 5 gives her access to 3rd level spells.
Wizard 6 is the final class for Merlin’s build. It is this level where she gets the ability to grant Perfect Cube to others in the form of Projected Ward. Now she can use her Arcane ward on allies within 30 feet of her as a reaction.
With full use of her Merlin’s power she is able to perform the following techniques via spells and abilities:
Infinity-Metamagic Extended Spell
Absolute Cancel/Magic Cancel-Dispel Magic
Location-Locate Object
Power Amplify-Metamagic Empower Spell
Teleportation-Misty Step
Super Continuous Teleportation-Blink
Aqua Dress-Mage Armor
Fire Storm-Create Bonfire
Exterminate Ray-Lighting Bolt
Endless Whirl-Warding Wind
Shock Stinger-Witch Bolt
Magic Seal-Nystul’s Magic Aura
Icicle Castle-Rime’s Binding Ice
Double Impact-Phantasmal Force
Fake Ball-Chaos Bolt
Curse Discovery-Remove Curse
Random Ball-Chromatic Orb
Purgatory Venom-Ray of Sickness
Power Limit Break-Haste
This combination of feats, stats and spells gives this DND build of Merlin, Boar’s Sin of Greed the ability to know all and devastate many in Six levels or Less.
Spells
Wizard
Cantrip
Create Bonfire
Fire Bolt
Mending
Message
1st Level
Chromatic Orb
Disguise Self
Feather Fall
Identify
Mage Armor
Magic Missile
Protection from Evil and Good
Ray of Sickness
Shield
Witch Bolt
2nd Level
Enlarge/Reduce
Invisibility
Knock
Levitate
Locate Object
Mind Spike
Mirror Image
Misty Step
Nystul’s Magic Aura
Phantasmal Force
Rime’s Binding Ice
Warding Wind
Blindness/Deafness
3rd Level
Bestow Curse
Blink
Clairvoyance
Counterspell
Dispel Magic
Fireball
Fly
Glyph of Warding
Haste
Lightning Bolt
Magic Circle
Major Image
Remove Curse
Tongues
Nondetection
Equipment
Standard Wizard Gear with a focus on dagger and orb as an Arcane Focus. Spend the extra money on spells
Shout out to https://nanatsu-no-taizai.fandom.com/wiki/Nanatsu_no_Taizai_Wiki for the amazing information in making this amazing character as well as DNDBeyond for its character creation platform. Next week will be the Lion’s Sin of Pride, Escanor!
Until next week Tale-Tellers!
