He wants to find his own past, who he is, where he belongs. Soon Emrys decides that he has recovered enough, and he takes his leave of Branwen to go on his quest. And though his eyes remain blind, he slowly develops another kind of vision - a “second sight.” Nevertheless she takes good care of him, considering that she has to scrape a living healing wounds and burns, practicing an art that many fear and despise as “of the devil.”Īround the age of twelve, young Emrys discovers that he has some amazing powers, and pretty soon he finds reason to wonder if he himself is “of the devil.” Scarred, blinded, and crushed with guilt after a terrible demonstration of his power, Emrys swears never to use his powers again if only God will let him see again. But because she refuses to tell him anything about where he came from, or about her own past, he doesn’t really believe she is his mother - or that her name is Branwen - or that his name is Emrys. A woman claiming to be his mother washes ashore as well, and she raises him. It begins with a seven-year-old boy washing ashore on the coast of Wales, half-drowned, with a bad bump to the head, and awakening without any memory of his past life.
The first of five books in a series by the same title, it is (naturally) about the great wizard Merlin, specifically his not-so-well-known youth.
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