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Does the Ten of Wands fit Merlin?
Yes, this is the perfect card for him!
This fits him well enough.
No, another Wands card would work better.
No, another card entirely would work better.
I don't know this character (Results)
The Ten of Wands represents responsibilities, being overburdened, stress, exhaustion, duty, burdens, bearing a load, and losing your way. Reversed, it indicates being resigned to your fate, collapse, breakdown, refusal to rest, getting nowhere, and saying no.
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It’s not that mysterious though.
Anyone carrying a bladed weapon carried oil. (More on that in a sec) Oil is what you use to clean and condition steel, especially, since water will rust it.
Many people in the Middle Ages used scented oils for their skin and hair from noblemen to lowly serfs.
Oil was incredibly abundant and quite cheap. The TYPE of oil however does matter in this.
Sheep oil (rendered from their fat) was very common and used for all manner of things from making soap to treating skin conditions. Rendered sheep fat has a very light texture and is a decent carrier oil without too pungent of a scent. Unfortunately it did rancid fast so it was common to add lots of herbs to it to help preserve it, especially rosemary, borage, marjoram and citron peels. This is how it became a common “perfume” oil used to scent hair skin or clothes. Nearly anyone would have had this handy somewhere.
Rendered pork oil was very common too and was most popular as a cooking oil.
Vegetable oil made from walnuts, almonds and flax seed was by far the most common non-animal oil. Nearly anybody had a bottle of almond or walnut oil in their pantry or on their person. These were by far the most popular oils used for conditioning steel, with walnut oil preferred because its tannins also gave armor a patina that kept it better. Only the absurdly wealthy ever wore polished armor. Everyone else blackened it to make it keep better. Walnut oil is good at doing that.
Walnut oil also works well as a lubricant. People back then DID use sexual lube by the way. No prostitute would be caught dead without it. Their favorite types were walnut and olive oil, though almond oil might be used in a pinch. They also used watered down acacia gum in southern Europe, which was sticky but slick and easy to re-wet.
Olive oil though was THE oil in Europe. It was expensive, comparatively, but obviously people considered it well worth its cost because it was found everywhere south of the Seine and frequently seen in even minor lordly houses or knights quarters much farther north. Considering quite a few people of the time thought it had aphrodisiac qualities when applied as certain way (likely because raw olive oil has a warming effect) I think you can imagine the most common reason it was sought after by men in particular.
Olive oil was also used in medicine and just about any church had some floating around somewhere because it’s conveniently good at treating minor infections and is wonderful for toothaches.
So the mysterious vial of oil isn’t at all mysterious and even if he were carrying it around with the sole intention of using it for sex, that wouldn’t actually be that strange either.
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ALTI had an epiphany whilst brushing my teeth.
ooh ooh this is something we've talked about in the server!! i'm very happy i'm not the only one who sees it!!
Insane parallel
Merlin 1x05 Lancelot and 5x07 A Lesson in Vengeance
Thanks @godmerlin for bringing this to my attention
Mind you this is the actual king that can change the law and has gone against it multiple times
He’s used magic for his own benefit how many times by now?
BTW when I say that every argument used to defend Arthur banning magic also, whether intentionally or not, defends Uther banning magic, I mean it… because this is what Uther’s actual stans/defenders are out here saying:
Case in point, every argument that can be used to defend Arthur’s ban on magic… also defends Uther’s ban on magic. The ban on magic simply cannot be defended, no matter who is doing it. It’s all just generalization and stereotyping in a judicial setting. To defend it when Arthur does it is to defend it when anyone does it — Uther, the Sarrum, a mob… anyone. The ban cannot be justified, ever.
im losing my fucking mind. there's no way this kind of thinking does not leak into the way they view the real world, too.
Merlin: I really like it when guys roll up their sleeves so you can see their forearms
Gwaine, looking down and realizing he only has two arms: fuck
“A white dragon is indeed a rare thing – and fitting! For in the dragon tongue you named him after the light of the sun.”