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Celtika
Tor, Mar 2003, 24.95, 368 pp.
ISBN: 0765306921
Merlin stays young as long as he does not use his magic, but every time he applies the “charm”, he ages. Always in a quest for more arcane knowledge, Merlin joins Jason on his crusade to obtain the Golden Fleece. Later the Enchantress Medea kills Jason's two sons and steals their corpses. The grieving former hero sails into the night on the Argo with no reason to live, unable to obtain closure.
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Iron Grail
Tor, Feb 2004, 24.95, 299 pp.
ISBN: 076530726X
Seven hundred years have passed since Merlin and Jason (see CELTIKA) searched for the Golden Fleece, but now the magician resides in Alba where he receives three warnings including one about a man who wants him dead for betrayal. Also Merlin is warned to beware of a being used by a man and a ship that is more than a ship.
Merlin travels to Ghostland to rescue the children of the warlord Urtha a...