Nimueh

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.:Name of Character:.Nimueh
.:Nick Name:.Nim
.:Age:.twenty years old
.:Status:.Nomad

| ~ • ~ | Appearance | ~ • ~ |

.:Physical Appearance:.She's a beautiful woman, with a blue ocean eyes.She has a soft skin, and an angelic face. Her lips is red, red as a rose. She has light pink cheeks, with an a apple shape face. Nimueh's body is slender. Although she's a little bit of chubby, she still looks slender the way she dress.

.:Height:.Her height is 5'6
.:Portrayed by:.Michelle Ryan

| ~ • ~ | Personality | ~ • ~ |

.:Personality:.She is a kind and humble witch, that lives in a peaceful place. She likes to practice the old craft that her ancestors are into too. She likes to do magic, and do the craft that she'd been seeing since her mother is still alive. Nimueh likes to travel along the forest, but a little bit of afraid to walk along the villages of Camelot.

Nimueh is kind to people whom are kind to each other and to her, but she's furious to people whom are cruel and selfish. If she saw cruel people, threatening others, she would use her magic to teach that person a lesson. Nimueh is an earthy witch, that wants people to live happy, and not to be threatened by people whom they don't know. She also likes to give challeges or tests to people who like to have her help, for her to know if their desires are trully pure good.
.:Strengths:.Her strengths are doing magic, living peacefully in her home, without the disturbance of others. Sleeping peacefully and comfortably. Having a nice talk with other people, and making friends. She's also having strengths if she's giving tests to people, and seeing them how trully they're willing to have her help. Nimueh appears as an embittered and selfish sorceress who wishes to bring ruin on Camelot and Uther Pendragon in revenge for the deaths of her friends. She displays a mischievous exterior, and appears to have some level of vainity as well. Her youthful appearance is a mystery, though in The Poisoned Chalice, it is speculated that she can cast illusions through the use of magic.
.:Weaknesses:.Is being threatened by the guards and servants of the King of Camelot. She doesn't like to be punished by the Kind, and to be alone. Nimueh cannot fight if she's also trapped in some place, and if there's a dead end in somewhere.
.:Magic Abilities:.She can cast spells and do potions, she can also command nature like trees flowers and plants, and even forest animals. As a high priestess of the old religion, Nimueh is a very powerful sorceress who has mastered control of the Elements as well as the power of life and death. She claims to have the power of prediction, suggesting that she is a Seer. Using a stone scrying fount, she is able to remotely view events as they occur. She may also be capable of magically communicating with individuals at a great distance, as suggested by her conversation with Uther the night before his duel with the wraith of Tristan de Bois.

She was able to easily stop Merlin's magical attack on her during their final confrontation, absorbing it into her hand. However, she didn't manage to kill Merlin because of his natural resilience to magical attacks and Merlin managed to slay the powerful sorceress . Furthermore, despite her power of prediction, she was, according to the Great Dragon, at first unaware of Merlin's greatness.
.:Special Skills:.She can command animals, and talk to animals and she can change her appearance at will, and can make beautiful features from her magic powers.
.:Accents:.Her accent is a normal english accent, witha soft hypnotizing voice.

| ~ • ~ | History | ~ • ~ |

.:Birthplace:.Camelot
.:Family:.None
.:Occupation:.Witch of the old religion
.:Current Location of Residence:.Camelot Forest, or the Woods.
.:History:.Twenty years before Merlin arrived in Camelot, Nimueh was a high priestess of the Old Religion. She and Gaius practised magic together and she was a friend of King Uther Pendragon and his wife Igraine. When Uther desired a son, having realised that Igraine was incapable of providing one, he asked Gaius to approach Nimueh and request that she use her magic to help Igraine get pregnant; she did, and the result was Arthur. However, in accordance with the laws of the Old Religion, a life had to be taken to give a life, and Igraine died in childbirth. Uther blamed magic in general and Nimueh in particular for her death and began the Great Purge, driving all who practiced magic out of Camelot. While Gaius conformed to the New Religion, Nimueh was banished from the court, and vowed revenge for the death of all her friends. he later exacted some measure of this revenge after Merlin began his apprenticeship with Gaius when she created an Afanc, a creature of clay and water, with which she poisoned the water supply of Camelot. Her plan was thwarted by Merlin and Prince Arthur Pendragon, who destroyed the Afanc using fire and wind. Uther was dismayed when Gaius discovered a mark on the Afanc's egg that proved that the plague was Nimueh's handiwork. (The Mark of Nimueh) Nimueh swore revenge on Merlin for his part in foiling her plan, posing as the handmaiden Cara within the court of Lord Bayard of Mercia. When Bayard traveled to Camelot to sign a peace treaty with Uther, Nimueh traded out a chalice originally meant for Arthur with one that she had poisoned, and inveigled for Merlin to drink from it.

She blamed the poisoning of the chalice on Bayard in order to sow discord and incite war, but the truth was discovered by Gaius before Camelot and Mercia could resume hostilities. She later led an unwitting Arthur to the caves under the Forest of Balor when he ventured there to find the Mortaeus flower; she left him for dead as enormous spiders swarmed, but he is saved by a light sent by Merlin. (The Poisoned Chalice) She later attempted to kill Uther by reanimating his brother-in-law Tristan De Bois, who had sworn to return from the dead and avenge his sister's death, as a wraith. Ultimately, Uther wielded the sword Excalibur – which had been forged by Guinevère's father, taken by Merlin to The Great Dragon, and imbued with ancient magic for use only by Arthur – to defeat Tristan. (Excalibur). When Arthur was bitten by the Questing Beast, Merlin traveled to the Isle of the Blessed and offered his life in exchange for Arthur's. Nimueh warned that such a trade would not be so simple; Arthur was brought back by the waters from The Cup of Life, but rather than sacrificing Merlin, his mother Hunith was taken instead, though Gaius attempted to sacrifice himself for Hunith to prevent Merlin from doing so. When Merlin returned, he found Gaius dead; Nimueh tried to convince him to join her, but he refused. The two battled and Merlin was hit by Nimueh's magic, which appeared to kill him. He survived, however, and summoned the power of the old magic to strike Nimueh dead and save Gaius. (Le Morte d'Arthur)Arthur later learned from the spirit of his deceased mother that Nimueh had used magic to create him, but he was led to believe that this was a lie.Despite being killed by Merlin, Nimueh's character biography on the BBC website seems to indicate that she may somehow return.

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